You won’t believe it.
No, really, you won’t.
Except of course you will because I never lie.
Well almost never…cough.
THE BEER FESTIVAL RAN OUT OF BEER
Would you like me to repeat that?
THE
BEER
FESTIVAL
RAN
OUT
OF
BEER
Thanks CAMRA. Next year you must bring more booze. Tsk. (But you did give us a full refund so thanks for that too.)
What this means also is that sadly we did not get to see Tree Beard who it turns out are an ancient cult of men who grow and tease their facial hair into really quite realistic perennial woody plant varieties, from the humble Apple Tree to the majestic Giant Sequoida, depending on chin size and follicular prowess.
Amazing isn’t it?
I mean that man has beard growing talent and is quite the sculptuor. He also looks a lot like that bloke who was in the ’sort of British version of Friends’, you know, the one with Helen Baxendale, Hermione Norris and James Nesbitt?? Erm, Cold Feet, that’s it, Robert Bathurst. (Can you tell I just googled?) He kept that one quiet didn’t he?
Ack ok, I’m lying. And if you read yesterday’s post you’ll know it was geeky Dan and lovely Potty Mummy who both reminded me that Tree Beard is indeed a reference to Tolkien’s finest from what I can tell.
If you want to see the real Tree Beard go here . Apparently they play ‘heavy wood’. (Snigger).
So anyway, due to lack of Beer Festival we were forced to drag ourselves round a few pubs then boogie our bottoms off at the Cookie Club where we met some very nice folks and I passed out in a toilet. No really I did. Am I not classy?? I’m putting it down to hormones and a little alcohol as when I came too I felt a bit rough, got the sweats for a bit, then my head cleared and I was totally fine and didn’t realise I’d passed out till I thought about it and knew I had no memory of entering the toilet and lying down . It was very weird so I’ll be having a chat with my doc about it, but all is well. I don’t even have bruises!!
Anyway, must go now as it is 1am and tomorrow I am taking my two monkeys and my nieces to and from school and keeping little J (almost 3)with me all day. It should be fun as she makes me giggle so much.
Night night
Whoops, and I nearly forgot. As promised, my mate Tim’s wardrobe.
Is it not a thing of beauty?
October 11th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
You passed out?! Yikes! Glad you are in one piece.
That beard is disturbing, come to think of it so is the tidy wardrobe.
Plus, a beer festival with no beer…..there must’ve been students there all day drinking gallons. I’m sure there are other points I should be addressing here but the lateness of the hour (and posting in the dark from my iPhone) has fogged my tired mind.
I bid you goodnight.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I know it’s totally not the same, but took the children out for Sunday lunch this weekend and the pub ran out of orange juice, ketchup and diet Coke. What kind of pub is that?
October 12th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Did a beer festival not run out of beer earlier this year too? You’d have thought they’d have learned from the mistakes of others….
Tara- that is a very pooor excuse for a pub.
October 12th, 2009 at 2:21 am
How can a beer festival run out of beer, were more folks drinking this year?????
October 12th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Wow, that beard, I could barely concentrate on the post, so distracting & disturbingly like my husband’s cousin in South africa.
It’s going to haunt my dreams…
October 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am
In the toilet? Gah! Not even *I* have done THAT. Well, not in the past 15 years. Or 10. Haha
Regardless – that means you just had fun, right?!
Tim’s wardrobe is beautiful. He would freak if he saw my closet.
October 12th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Did I read a little alcohol, Jo? Mmmm.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Glad you got your money back and still managed to enjoy yourself. (Psssst – your secret is safe with me -wink)
I can’t believe that a man keeps his wardrobe so tidy! Does his mum/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend do it for him? LOL
October 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Yep that wardrobe is a thing of beauty (unlike the beard). Talking of which – I’ve just seen us on the Disney ads. The best laugh I’ve had in years! It was such fun wasn’t it. (You look absolutely fabulous daahling. Younger and prettier than me. I’ve gone off you.
)
PS: Doesn’t it look like Me and Dan and The Kids, with a young, pretty aunt? LOL!
October 12th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I so enjoy your conversational posts. Glad your hormones didn’t prevent you from having fun. Sorry they ran out of beer though, even though I’m not a beer drinker that sounds awful at such a festival.
You sure had me going about the men with hair sculptures! I think that would be SO COOL to see! So forget your man’s wardrobe; convince him to sculpt his facial hair!
May 26th, 2010 at 3:39 am
That’s two beer festivals we played last year that ran out of beer before we even got on stage – Sheffield & Nottingham. Apparently attendance was up 50% on the year before & as cask beer only keeps a few days, they would have had to chuck any that was left over, so they only order as much as they think they’ll need.