Fancy a quick beer ?

An early evening sms from Paul enquired as to wether we would be free for a beer later that evening, in the neighbouring village of Westoning. After checking with Pippa I was quick to reply with the standard 'that wld b gr8t c u L8tr'. We set off around 8pm to meet up in the Chequers which had been closed for a couple of months, so I was anticipating a newly refurbished and envigourated pub, but nothing was different, I think they just forogt to open the front doors for a while.

Paul, Suze, Mark and Nikki all arrived about 10 minutes after us and the topic of conversation was very soon weddings, weddings weddings, but noticing that Nikki was on fruit juice started Pippa & I thinking and within 10 minutes, Nikki couldn't contain her good news. Indeed she did have another baby inside her tummy, and there coming out date was the day before Pauls wedding, this may pose a slight challenge to Mark the father to be, but also the best man on the day !

Several drinks later, and I don't think we quuite hit double figures, we leapt into our waiting cab and made it home just before midnight.

The Chequers could almost be described as Graham's local, but unfortunately he had not been in when I called him earlier and had no response to the text I sent him. I was later to find out that in fact he made it home, shortly after we arrived at the pub and he was slightly miffed that six of us had been on 'his manor' without any of us 'knocking him up' and asking Sue if he could come out to play. Life plays cruel tricks of timings now and again, this was one of them.

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