I saw bits of it, the wife was hooked. Poorly written, poorly acted, ridiculous and unoriginal plot from my glimpses. I did note that the baddie who had managed to completely over up her crimes, despite them all being spur of the moment, and had committed at least 3 murders by the end of it was free to return for another series and had received a promotion in the police force. Bring back Dixon of Dock Green. Evenin’ All.
LBW to Overton for 25. Oh, the TV series. Like Stan, the wife's been watching it and I've been kind of aware of it. Seems like a poor man's Line of Duty to me. We've been watching in arrears, so probably won't bother with the last one now Stan's blown the ending!
I thought it started off well, but then quickly descended into a farce. I'd like to know why they completely ignored the video recording. Exactly what I thought. A poor man's line of duty.
Sorry Strolls. I actually only saw the last 15 minutes of the last episode, as I was walking the dog. Do you know what I thought? A poor man’s Line of Duty. And the last series of that was ridiculous as well, though very well acted.
Star Wars - if you're a fan you must see it if not, like me, don't bother. My 20 year thought it was great.
Trying to clear my ‘Sky Plus’ before I start my training and finally got to watch ‘The Deuce’ that was on Sky Atlantic. Amazing series, starting James Franco that portrays the sleaze and vice in 1970’s New York perfectly (I would think).....well worth watching for ‘Pimp fashion’ alone.
Wairau Cove New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc picked up in Tesco for €10 on offer, rather good, lovely gooseberry and melon overtones with a fresh cut grass nose, perfect with pork, turkey and fish or just to simply quaff pre dinner....... Also a new series of Spirral starts on December 30th on beeb 4, brilliant french drama.......
I have just spent rather too much on stocking up on wine, but now looking at the wine rack I suspect I will need more before Christmas. Sicilian Grillo added to Picpoul de Pinet and Viognier as rotating house white. I will be drinking red, and probably something deeply inappropriate, with the turkey. Is that wrong of me?
Wine as an investment. We have an enormous collection of 5 bottles of booze - champagne (2), port (2) and dessert wine (1) which are obviously not everyday drinks, which we keep in a cool dark place and consequently forget we have. 4 of them were gifts from very generous friends and one I bought for my wife. I’ve just unearthed them and had a look on the inter web. The one I bought has gone up in value by 70% in 4 years. The values of the others, especially the dessert wine, are bonkers. **** Bitcoin, this is where to put your money. At least if the market goes tits up you still have a tasty asset. Now I have a dilemma about finding the suitable occasion to drink them (there is zero chance I will do anything but consume them). I think the people who gave them to us need to be involved. In the meantime I am revisiting our contents insurance. I suppose to make a living at this you need enough capital to buy the right wine at the right time in serious quantities and then forget about it for a few years. Nah, I don’t have the willpower. And to be honest I doubt my palate is sophisticated enough to appreciate the truly fine as opposed to the very tasty.
Don't wait toooo long on the Champagne, the last two bottles I've opened which we had for a while had gone, where I don't know but the taste had left the bottles.
Investing in wine would be madness for me, the assets would always be susceptible to a late-night binge.
Yeah, can you imagine when you've run out of Liebfraumilch, and there's nothing left in the house, but you fancy a quick snifter before hitting the sack. Then you remember that you have a bottle of Petrus 2005 tucked away for a rainy day.
The mate who gave me the dessert wine, a Chateau D’Yquem, lives in France and qualified as a sommelier after retiring from the Hong Kong civil service. I’ve just been chatting with him and he used to have a bottle of the 1921 vintage, apparently the best of the last century, which he kept under his bed and found himself with corkscrew in hand in the small hours on several occasions, but just about resisted the temptation, and eventually sold it at auction. I’ve just looked it up, average price £6,000,excluding tax. He now does wine tours, either designing the itinerary and organising the introductions to the vineyards, or accompanying the tourists/drinkers. Happy to put anyone who has an interest in touch. Just been advised by my expert friend to drink one of the champagnes at Christmas. It’s a hard life, but I suppose I’ll have to.
Well Wine ... it's a UK hobby and as for currency I'm sure it exists but if I ask any of my french friends about wine values ... they look very blank about it as if i was talking about Milk. Was told that the best wines very rarely ever leave France and the commercial export of fine wines is a specialised market that has a volatile trend. I was also told that wine on the whole doesn't travel. If you could see what a French bottling plant looks like close to me then it may well change the concept and thinking of wine.
Perhaps your French friends don’t know that much about wine or the wine trade (neither do I of course). Just because they are French doesn’t make them experts. Or perhaps they were looking back wistfully on the days when the French were very much the kings of wine, now long since gone. But I can assure you that it’s a hobby much broader than the U.K. and that some people make a lot of money at it, whether or not it travels well (I suspect you would need a sensationally sophisticated palate, which I certainly don’t have, to tell the difference between the same bottle of Bordeaux drunk in Bordeaux, Paris or London). Historically (not sure about now) the greatest wine and port merchants have been British, precisely because we didn’t make our own. Your mates might be right about the best stuff (or the best stuff for drinking relatively soon after being made) not only rarely leaves France, but probably not the locality where it was made. It was certainly like that in Italy, where the wine plonked on your table at a small rural trattoria often didn’t have a label on it, cost peanuts and was uniformly great. But the cheap stuff they sold in supermarkets was horrible. Anyway, it’s a bit of fun as long as you don’t take it too seriously and become a wine ****er. The object is to have a tasty drink and get a bit messy.
It had to come England last ten years has dramatically improved its cuisine culture no doubt Natural progression of the Anglo Saxon We are now the best in the world! We aren’t Wine and the U.K. well there is certainly a massive market. My local place I buy Rose from Cazel Viel I pay €6 for 5 Litres in my plastic bucket £16.75 a bottle over here
