Dry July

That picture is from my recently deleted Untappd profile. 351 distinct brews over the last eight years… and that’s just the ones I actually recorded. Some of them are ranked among the best in the world. Others are deemed ordinary at best.

And it doesn’t count the cocktails and wines.

Lee’s story is similar… more wine than beer but otherwise the same. Every occasion includes a tipple of one sort or another.

So, time for a considered pause. Dry July is a thing here. Sometimes people use the occasion to raise money for a worthy cause, and others, like us, just use the catchy name for motivation.

So, we packed up the entire liquor cabinet and gave it to our housekeeping team, who were well pleased. So pleased in fact that they brought us this beautiful cake, complete with a cute spelling mistake. (although I’m not normally the kind of person to touch things that you shouldn’t, there was just something irresistible about that purple icing which turned out to be a lot more smudge-prone than I expected)

We’re two weeks in today, and so far so good. Hopefully we can last the whole month, and then we’ll see…