The daughter (Claire) and boyfriend (Clarkie) of our neighbours are leaving soon to go travelling. They are not at home at Christmas so Christmas was brought forward to Sunday. We have a tradition of having a few drinks with our neighbours on Christmas morning. I had a smashing breakfast of locally smoked bacon, mushrooms and eggs with tea and toast on the side. Suitably protected we presented ourselves at 11 o'clock only to find that C&C did not know about the pseudo-Christmas. They did turn up, if a little late, and were surprised to find all the usual suspects sitting round sipping Kia Royale's in our Christmas best.
Graham, Dad of Claire, likes a beer. In Woodville a micro-brewery has been established. It does bottles and kegs in different types or styles of beer. They rent the hand pump to go with the keg. Their stock in trade beer is Billy's Best. It is a bit hoppy for me but with a few Kia's inside me Billy's went down quietly. Just as well really as Graham had bought a pin, a 36 pint keg. We were supposed to leave at 2pm but the party was still flowing at two. We got away just before 4pm. We said our goodbye's and gave our best wishes for the future to C&C. More or less as soon as we got home and sat down with a brew we fell asleep.
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