Nearly didn't go out last night. Didn't feel like it earlier in the day, it was drizzly and grey out, but it brightened up by lunchtime. Texted my friends to test the water, both keen to go out, and different places. So we started in the Clarendon and had a couple of iffy pints, one went back, not sure what was going on there, it's normally very good. Then we got a taxi into Hythe as a friend of a friend was playing piano in a new cocktail bar. It turned out to actually be the rebranded White Swan, half of it it now called The Coaching Inn, and it's nice. It was quiet (apart from the piano playing) but they did one real ale, so we had that. Then thought let's try a cocktail, as it's pay day and all, an espresso martini1, and it was really good. Then went for another, a basil gimlet, also very good, and then a pornstar martini, and then got chatting with the couple running the place, and then they gave us a load of free beer. A very successful evening! Except that it made me quite slow moving this morning. Luckily there is not a lot I can do anyway. Could not run, as Clare is at work, and the boys are still isolating. So a few little jobs around the house, dadmin.
My plans for Febrewery are behind schedule, so I might just forget about that. I have done two pubs in five days, and I can't go out again this weekend, nor this week or next weekend because I'm on call.
I moved my Eurostar booking to the end of this year, see if we can use it then. I had to pay extra to move it, as all other tickets seem to be more expensive than what we originally booked. I wonder if I'll ever be able to move it to a cheaper date and get some money back? I doubt it. I will not speculatively book Eurostar again, you cannot get a refund.
Less than a week now until my chair arrives.
This is really good2.
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Russia + Mexico + UK
Estimated 92 cups of coffee from my espresso machine3 probably comes to £8.25 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing3 so not the electricity).
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