Sat 27th November - Lichfield

I’d hoped to be able to make the CBA Xmas Social today and their trip round Dudley and Netherton, but alas events conspired against me, notably the early snowfall, the need to await a delivery and lastly one’s inability to get up in the morning, plus the fact we would have had to have left quite early to attend a 50th birthday that evening.

Instead therefore I find myself in Lichfield that afternoon having attended to the morning’s activities, and so we pop into The Acorn where they were selling Titanic New York Wheat Porter. I offered the bar tender a voucher but he said to save it as it was their daily 99p a pint special anyway. Thaqt and a large coffee that Linda wanted and which a completed loyalty card took care of meant that the round came to 99p, the cheapest round ever I suspect.

That evening finds me at Tamworth Football Club for the aforesaid 50th. The atmosphere was a little downbeat given the late 3-2 defeat at Carlisle that afternoon in the FA Cup, but I partly consoled myself with Warwickshire’s Best Bitter.