No Bourbon, 12 Pubs, 12 Beers

Hello again friends and relatives. I hope you are all fit and well. 2nd week at work was quite enjoyable again. Starting to feel part of the group now. I'm off to Edinburgh next week for 5 days so that should be good.

Saturday was the rescheduled sponsored walk day which was quite a laugh. 12 pubs and you're supposed to have a pint in each. I walked with Steve, the Griffin's landlord as he wanted to get a wriggle on and get back for the halloween night planned for Saturday evening in his pub. Plus neither of was sure of the route so we didn't fancy trying to find our way in the dark.

We all met up at 10am athe the Rose and Crown in Chipping Warden and set off around 11am. Next stop Griffin which was all of 3 minutes walk - feeling good already - made it this far. Then about a 2.5 mile jaunt through the countryside to the next one in Wardington. Hooky beer here. I'll cut a long story short but we only stayed as long as it took to have a beer given that it gets dark early here now but we made an exception at the next pub in Chacombe as they had Fuller's ESB here. Couldn't resist a brace. A short jaunt away we found ourselves in the next stop - a golf club - no real ale here - so Guinness was the order. Then on to Middleton Cheney about 3 miles away where there were 4 pubs in quick succession. I think we had London Pride in one, Eagle Ale in another and Spitfire in the last. Then the bit I was dreading - a 5 mile (8km) uphill slog back to Wardington. I just put my head down and marched as fast as I could as it (and I probably) was getting a bit murky. They'd set up a pitstop on this road where soup and sandwiches were on offer - a great idea. Was very relieved to get to Wardington and enjoy an Abbot Ale. Then back across country another 2.5 miles to arrive at around 7pm at The Rose in Chipping Warden for the final Hook Norton of the day. All up I believe 2000GBP was raised by about 25 of us. We only had 2 people ahead of us all day and we only saw the main group once or twice as we were leaving pubs 2 and 3 I think. Some of them have done this 12 times before so they had several beers and a long break in each pub. I found out on Sunday that some didn't make it back til after midnight. I may have left out some other pub details here as I'm sure there was a couple more but I should have made notes - weather was quite overcast but remained dry and fairly comfortable - even worked up a bit of a sweat on the trip uphill back to WardingtonThen on to Saturday evening - fancy dress halloween party in The Griff - quite a good night. Needless to say I slept through til 1pm on Sunday but pulled up feeling pretty good - just a few minor aches. Well, on into week 3 at work. Looking forward now to Bonfire Night on Nov 5th.

Will update you all again soon. Mum's doing quite well by the way.

Love to you all P