The Champagne page
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Steve, some fine stuff there in the Champagne pictures category. Am in awe of your powers of consumption and analysis. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page, below the pictures, and you’ll see the information I’m referring to.)
Oysters: tend to agree with you on the slime score. However, have you ever tried smoked oysters? To die for, dear fellow. Of course you must have, an epicure of your class - but I expect you had enjoyed a little too much Bolly at the time and couldn’t remember much the following day. No matter. Personally (mainly because decent smoked oysters are never to found when you fancy some), I tend to go for grilled oysters.
With this cunning method, you don’t even have the bother of opening them, since they usually open themselves under the grill. And, if time is short, there’s always the microwave!
Must try Cava some time; Rioja is my favourite tipple - after rum naturally - so I’ve nothing against the Spanish. As you say, shame about the lack of Bolly pix on the site; Stolly as well, of course. I don’t think LordPrice has any Russian sources, though. Did I ever tell you about my trip to Moscow? Been?
One point though: in the penultimate paragraph, you mention “…charming ladies who clearly know how to enjoy themselves and their escorts.”
I wonder if you actually meant to say that? A Freudian slip induced by too much Cava, no doubt.
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September 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Smoked oysters - no, never tried them. I will consult oyster aficianados of my acquaintance for their opinion.
Moscow - not made it yet, despite my love of all things east of Plzen. If I can persuade (that is, bribe) Mrs P the Trans-Siberian is on the agenda.
Ladies and escorts - that’s the danger of having Lord Price edit my copy. I’ve consulted my original and find I stopped at ‘themselves’. I’m sure it reads as His Grace intended.
Toodle pip!
September 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Steve - I’m so sorry. Stupid of me to think you were in error, and not to have considered the fact that LP might have had a hand in it. At his age, you’d think he would have slowed down a bit and started thinking about something more sensible, like fly fishing or whatever.