Went for a walk yesterday afternoon, which took us by Sandgate, where the Sea Festival thing was going on. Lots of stalls to squeeze past with the buggy, Number one son won a clock at one of them, look forward to that being up in the guest room next time you are over... I suggested Jim and Pauline take the boys home in the car as it was a bit far for them to walk back too, while Clare and I walked (via the pub) but Clare generously let me stay on on my own for a bit longer. I went in The Ship as they claim to have a beer festival on for the duration, not what I'd call a beer fest though. They are normally quite good for real ale, though there seems to be less enthusiasm for it there these days, I think it's as the landlord and landlady are approaching retirement and handing the reigns over. Anyway, there were more beers than usual, but only more titles from the same old breweries as far as I could see, Greene King etc, nothing exciting. Also they weren't all on at once, it wasn't clear what they did actually have on. Also I expect a beer festival in a pub to hand over some of the bar to having the barrels on display, but this was not the case. I'm saying it doesn't count as a beer festival. I stopped for one it was OK, was no-one around that I knew.
Went in The Clarendon on the way back, that was quiet but nice. A few people mentioned The Ship in there, accusing each other of going there or something, seems there is a bit of local rivalry between the two places. If I went out more often I'd know this.
Was nice to be out and about for an hour or so.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in A small town. Wed to Clare + father to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, and I do mostly js / Node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, running, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.