Beer!

It’s Monday morning (boo), I’m on the train heading for work (boo), so thought I’d type out my blog.

Was in Norfolk last week. I’m sure that you’ve read all about that on Sue’s blog.

I will add that I managed to do some bird watching whist at the Norwich Beer Festival. At the beginning of the week a Sparrow hawk had flown in the hall where the festival is held and sat quite happily on the beans in the roof of the building. They tried to get it out and even employed the services of the local bird of prey centre, but all to no avail. The bird was quite happy where it was.

Saturday I went to the Poole beer festival. Every year its on at the same time as the Norwich one and so I’ve never been to it. However this year we came back from Norwich on the Friday. So I was free on the Saturday to go down to Poole (well Branksome) to sample the delights of the festival. The thought of going to it only came into my head when I saw that a friend at work had a spare ticket for the festival for sale. So many thanks to Rob for the ticket.

The festival itself was not as big as the Norwich one. But size isn’t everything. For me the sign of a good festival is –

Must have a selection of beers that I haven’t tried before.

Good atmosphere

Reasonable food.


The Poole festival had all three. OK the selection wasn’t as high as Norwich but there was still beers that I haven’t tried before.

Unfortunately I had to leave early as AFC Bournemouth were playing at home that afternoon. But I still had a good time at the festival and sampled more beers than I probably should have done before going to a football match. I even had to smuggle the souvenir beer glass from the festival into the football ground.

Leaves me in a dilemma for next year. Should we come back from Norwich on the Friday, so to go to the Poole festival again next year? Or stay up in Norwich for the Saturday. It would be nice to go and see Norwich FC play again and the home match in beer festival week was always a must. But if Bournemouth is home that Saturday I should really be there for that. Oh the choices.