We are off on our latest road trip and we have some new characters on board!
The usual suspects head the cast for this first part of our journey:
The Husband! Also referred to as “My Darling Mike” or sometimes “He who must be obeyed” (HA! HA! HA!) pictured here with his beloved Poppy-dog enjoying a craft beer at the Big Boss brewing company in Raleigh, North Carolina back in May. Poppy is rather partial to a craft beer!
Kitty Abigail, also known as Princess!
Kitty Archer, also known as “Bad boy” for bullying kitty Artie who is at home, and “Mr. Annonying” for his habit of jumping onto our bed every morning around 5 a.m. with the sole intent of biting noses and fingers!
And, me, the blogger, pictured here with Mum at Beachy Head in East Sussex, England a couple of weeks ago.
The Blogging Brit 
I’m just catching up and love this picture of Mike and Poppy. Joe says he wishes he was there enjoying the craft beer too. We had a small party a couple of weeks ago to showcase his two recent brews, an English bitter and a Belgian Abbey-style Blonde. The guests, including Cecil, all enjoyed them so much that Joe will be brewing two more in time for Christmas, a “fall” beer and a Christmas beer. We hope that perhaps you will be able to join us when you are here in December!
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Hi Gill,
Lovely to hear from you and I hope that Mum & Dad are doing well, as is Joe (and Daisy Mae).
How was Paris?
Miss Poppy certainly does like a craft beer or two before it’s all gone and we have found some fantastic places along the way. What I love with the craft brewery places is that frequently they serve gastro pub style food which is really good and much more European in nature. We even found somewhere today in Texarkana in the middle of nowhere and it was fantastic!
We would love to see you in December – would you be free on December 27th? If so, can you pencil us in to do something? I would like to see if you guys, and my friends Celia and Dale can all get together. Dale and Joe would really hit it off and I think that it would be fun. Anyway, a long way off but hopefully we can work something out.
Joe’s brewing sounds very interesting and good luck to him, as I believe it is not the easiest thing in the world to master! I did buy a beer-brewing kit for Mike for his birthday last year, but he’s only interested in drinking the stuff!
Enjoy your bank holiday weekend and I hope that the weather plays along for whatever you have planned.
Amanda x
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