I set the alarm on Saturday for 9am to make sure that I was up in time to go for a run and do "adult" parkrun with Alex at around 10am at Temple Newsam. I woke up a bit before and then woke Alan up to see if he fancied doing it too and he did join me. We drove over and saw Han's house for the first time since the fire damage repairs had been completed. It was looking really good and we had a coffee and then took Alex to run a "not" parkrun. There was a socially distanced race going on and so we ended up being cheered on by the marshals!
Alex hasn't run much and so there was a good amount of walking and we got around in about 51.51 and had a good chat about a lot of things. We had an ice lolly at the end and Alan finally got to enjoy a feast - I had a cider refresher and Alex had a screwball.
We spent a bit more time at Han's and went for a walk with her as James was desperate to ride his little car around the block. His behaviour was quite challenging and we think in part because he'd not seen us for a few weeks.
We headed home and then I made some pizza for lunch on tortilla bases and some salad. We watched some tv and then Alan went up for a bath and a nap and I cleaned the cat litter trays at last and did the recycling as well as loading the dishwasher and cleaning the kitchen and doing a load of washing. I then had a bath and got ready for Cyberfest 3 by Beer 52 an online beer festival which had a 4 hour live stream with commentary on the beers provided, comedians, music and interviews with the brewers. There were 12 beers and a special glass, but we only managed to get through 6 during the time we were drinking. They were the ones in bold:
- Northern Monk **England** - Patrons Project 18.03 TDH Pale Ale 5% **440ml**
- De Leite **Belgium** - Cuvee Uncle Pol Flanders Red 7% - very weird, but interesting blended concept, very strong lambic flavour.
- Vocation x Brew York **England** - Sweet Temptation Stout 6% **440ml** - I had this at the end, I perhaps shouldn't have done as I was quite full, but it was a really tasty sweet stout.
- By the River (Wylam Tap) **England** - Heedhunter DDH Pale Ale 4.5% **440ml** - Our first beer, really hoppy and fresh to start off with.
- Ale Browar **Poland** - Hazy Rooster DIPA 8.9%
- Mothership **UK** - Hazy Peach Pale 5.5%
- Funky Fluid **Poland** - Gelato Pastry Sour 5.6% **500ml** - A crazy combination of flavours, but delicious, as the presenters suggested, you'd likely only have one as it's quite sweet.
- Round Corner **England** - Drovers Hazy Session IPA 4.3% - Alan loved this one, I thought it was good, but didn't stand out as much as the others did for me - the challenge of having lots of strong flavours together.
- Glen Affric **England** - Rutting Stag American Red 5% - Another very drinkable and nice beer.
- Heaney Farmhouse **NI** - Pale Ale 5%
- Sori Brewing **Estonia** - Madonna of Sori 5.3%
The rest we get to look forward to trying later! I think we'd have been really smashed if we'd attempted all 12 let alone getting 2 boxes so we had one beer each! The comedy, quizzes and music helped the evening along and I concluded that it was a lovely day. Qubit was a big fan of hiding in the Beer 52 box!
We'd ordered a takeaway from a new place Fire it up! for tea as Alan was craving a kebab and I had one too, but it was INSANELY spicey I think they basically coated it in just red chilli sauce, I had 2 attempts at eating it, but couldn't complete it. I had chips and some strawberry cheesecake as well.
We went to bed and I was ridiculously full and fortunately fell asleep quite quickly.
We woke up quite late and I don't think that Alan had a great night of sleep so we dozed and napped and I snuck downstairs to feed the cats and put a loaf of bread on in the breadmaker. I felt very full of anxiety, which I'm assuming will be the drinking as it tends to affect me if I've had a few drinks the morning after. Eventually I got up and made scrambled eggs, sausages, toast (with marmite for me) and coffee and orange juice. The bread was a bit too doughy, but everything else was ok. We watched the end of the Addams Family movie and then I watched some Storage Hunters whilst Alan went up to watch Formula 1.
I did a load of washing and then got ready to go for a run and did 8K fairly steadily as I woke up with a sore stomach which is likely a combination of beer and far too spicey food. It took around 45 minutes and then I got back home later than I'd thought as it was 6.30pm and we were booked for our first post covid meal out at Pizza Express at 7pm. I managed to get showered and changed and to Pizza Express by 7pm.
We got to the entrance wearing our masks and waited for about 10 minutes before anyone came to show us in, but once we'd sat down we looked at the online menu, but ordered from a waiter. We sat in the middle of 3 x 2 seater tables and there was one table allocated for social distancing and to put used dishes on for collection. I had an elderflower drink and Alan had still lemonade and I shared olives and I had some calamari and Alan had dough balls. For my main I had a vegan Giardiniera and a side salad and Alan had a Calabrese. The food was much as I remembered and tasted nice, although it was disappointing that some of our favourites like the Dolcetti desserts and the arancini starters were not on the menu, but I completely understand how restaurants have had to change the way they work.
We headed back and I plugged in Lauren's friend Lorraine's live Instagram where she was practicing some of her comedy and then I finished watching this and Alan watched Ricky Gervais Animal and made us hot apple brandy and then I grabbed us some ice lollies and ibuprofen as we both had aches and pains.
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