Yes, just as daft as it sounds really! We went to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk on Monday to visit the Greene King Brewery in the company of 20 reprobates and the maddest Northern Irish guide I have ever met. She was a hoot. Green King is one of the oldest brewers in the country and has always been in Bury and as most of our locals are GK it was quite appropriate to visit the source so to speak! Naturally the guys were only interested in sampling the beer! Fun though to discover GK own the Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham which was one of our haunts in student days, and even more fun to discover the man I sat next to at dinner afterwards came from Nottingham as I do and knew all the places I did. He even remembered the Toreador which was our favourite coffee bar!!
Bury is a beautiful old town, well worth a visit, we went into the park behind the old abbey and here are some pics of the ruins, including some that look like a bird - honest! There is also one on a house built into the old ruins.
On the home front we are really progressing, as I type our second bedroom is getting its carpet laid and then they move on to the third one. I decided to deep clean and piant the kitchen after getting a total shock when I took a couple of plates off the wall - so it now looks fab and gleaming - too clean to cook in of course but you can't have it all!
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