Photos then ale, food then more ale

Well once again i'm back at my brothers in the village of South Zeal, near Okehampton in Devon.
Both my brother and i are keen photographers (i will include some photo's soon) so we set off looking for some interesting subject to photograph, today we settled on a disused silver and lead mine on Dartmoor and spent nearly two hours taking photo's from a variety of different angles, but poor light meant we didn't gain much. On leaving we decided to stop for a drink. Our first choice was the Dartmoor Inn at Lydford but sadly it was closed so we moved on and came to the Foxand Hounds where i enjoyed a very nice pint of Tribute, (my brother being the driver had to settle on a coffee),also on offer were Dartmoor Breweries Jail and Best Ales. Sadly due to time we only had time for the one drink, then back home for a delightful dinner of battered oak smoked haddock, potato wedges and mushy peas.
After dinner and when my niece and nephew had gone to bed my brother and i headed off down to our "regular" the Kings Arms. I was hoping that they would still have the Teignworthy's Scrum Down that my brother had enjoyed a few days ago, but they didn't, however they did have some very good ales on offer. We started off with a pint of O'Hanlons Port Stout whilst not exactly to our taste it was a very quaffable ale. Next we tried an ale from a brewery new but fairly local to ourselves. The brewery being Country Life Brewery from North Devon, the ale was Old Appledore Ale, at 3.7 it's more of a session ale with a fairly weak taste and cloudy chestnut colour. Wether a bad barrel or a poor ale i'm not sure but it didn't appeal to me and i promptly moved on to Dartmoors Jail Ale, a safe old favourate. Now back home i'm typing this post and enjoying a bottle of Jennings Sneck Lifter, so i'll raise a toast all of those who wish us well those who don't can go to..................