The Queen's Jubilee

[amateur51]

with the canapés there was Nyetimber 2007 English Sparkling.
with the salmon, a 2011 sancerre
with the lamb, a ch cap de faugères côte-de-castillon 2007

You are a mine of information there vints, as one has grown to expect on matters epicurean.

Good to see the Nyetimber, a bold choice but perhaps the discount at Waitrose tilted the scales in its favour

http://www.waitrosewine.com/230201783/Product.aspx?SearchTerm=36825&source=wr_wine

[french frank]

with the canapés there was Nyetimber 2007 English Sparkling.
with the salmon, a 2011 sancerre
with the lamb, a ch cap de faugères côte-de-castillon 2007

M de Vinteuil - you were there? I bow the knee and tug the forelock.

Did you enjoy it?

[Btw, the Coop were really decent last week when I inadvertently picked up a wrongly priced/labelled £17 Chablis and didn't notice until I'd opened it and drunk half of it . I just thought my mental arithemtic was wrong and didn't look at the bill ...

They 'refunded' me a bottle of Coop Chablis so I was able to compare the two. The £17 Chablis was better ]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I have never identified the unpleasant attitudes that you ascribe to Lat's posts. He always comes across to me as thoughtful in his arguments, prepared to take on board an alternative view, and careful of the feelings of others in expressing his thoughts, something that I should like to emulate more often, perhaps

I too have nothing but praise and respect for Lat's principles. Sometimes it takes courage to express views such as those recently communicated, and I would like to think that others would accept this, even when they disagree.

[amateur51]

M de Vinteuil - you were there? I bow the knee and tug the forelock.

Did you enjoy it?

[Btw, the Coop were really decent last week when I inadvertently picked up a wrongly priced/labelled £17 Chablis and didn't notice until I'd opened it and drunk half of it . I just thought my mental arithemtic was wrong and didn't look at the bill ...

They 'refunded' me a bottle of Coop Chablis so I was able to compare the two. The £17 Chablis was better ]

Great story, french frank and very generous of them too

[Nick Armstrong]

M de Vinteuil - you were there? I bow the knee and tug the forelock.

Did you enjoy it?

[Btw, the Coop were really decent last week when I inadvertently picked up a wrongly priced/labelled £17 Chablis and didn't notice until I'd opened it and drunk half of it . I just thought my mental arithemtic was wrong and didn't look at the bill ...

They 'refunded' me a bottle of Coop Chablis so I was able to compare the two. The £17 Chablis was better ]

Were you there, vindewestsussex?

[Nick Armstrong]

Good to see the Nyetimber, a bold choice but perhaps the discount at Waitrose tilted the scales in its favour

http://www.waitrosewine.com/23020178...source=wr_wine

[vinteuil]

Were you there, vindewestsussex?

... me? - no, I was picnicking with Mme V after a hearty tramp through the Chilterns; a cheese'n'tomato sangwidge which was well good

But I have my spies...

[BBMmk2]

A friend of mine In the welsh guards band was at the concert and he was supporting robbie Williams. He said it was fantastic!

[MrGongGong]

A friend of mine In the welsh guards band was at the concert and he was supporting robbie Williams. He said it was fantastic!

I didn't know Robbie Williams wore a truss

[cloughie]

Good to see the Nyetimber, a bold choice but perhaps the discount at Waitrose tilted the scales in its favour

Maybe recommended by 'The apprentice' as a good example of English Wine Sparkling.

[Nick Armstrong]

a hearty tramp

He spoke very highly of you both later, I understand

[MrGongGong]

This is concerning. I wonder what HM would think if she is ever told. Rather takes the gloss off the whole day - or the remaining bits that the BBC did not manage to scrape off.

Can't see that she would give a toss........ and why are "we" not surprised ?

[scottycelt]

Aside from that particular bee in your wee bonnet scotty (I note that you choose to poke fun in your 'thesis' at two 'left-leaning' papers - such as passes for balance in Auchtermuchty I assume ), what about the story itself?

No shred of truth possible?

Never heard of anything like it before?

What 'bee in my bonnet', amsey?

I don't know what 'two left-leaning ' papers to which you are referring as I only mentioned one very right-leaning newspaper ..

And you keep mentioning Auchtermuchty ... I don't know the place, I've never been there ... I take it that you know it really well?

Of course, there can be a shred/grain of truth in any press account ... but some of us might just be interested in discovering the many other grains as well?

There can only be one real truth, amsey ... and that's the whole truth ... didn't you know?

[cloughie]

A friend of mine In the welsh guards band was at the concert and he was supporting robbie Williams. He said it was fantastic!

I can see that being part of the big band stuff would be quite an interesting place to be on the evening, presumably he backed Joneses Tom and Grace also!

[amateur51]

What 'bee in my bonnet', amsey?

I don't know what 'two left-leaning ' papers to which you are referring as I only mentioned one very right-leaning newspaper ..

And you keep mentioning Auchtermuchty ... I don't know the place, I've never been there ... I take it, you know it really well?

Of course, there can be a shred/grain of truth in any press account ... but some of us might just be interested in discovering the many other grains as well?

There can only be one real truth, amsey ... and that's the whole truth ... didn't you know?

I was brought up on the Sunday Express in the 1950s/60s scotty and thus fell under the rancid spell of Sir John Donald Brown Junor who was Editor -in-Chief of said journal. He used to mention Auchtermuchty de temps en temps as in "What would they say in Auchtermuchty?"

As to there only being one truth, I think there are plenty of philosophers who might want a word in your shell-like, scotty

"The bee in your bonnet" is of course your persistent down on The Left, as if it were easily identifiable these days

Edit: You are quite right, scotty - I misread Daily Mirror for Daily Mail - so I am quite pointless there - as you had already spotted

My apologies