Having had several packets arrive, all in good time at that, it is depressing to sit here and listen for the ringing doorbell or knock on the door and nothing happens. No postman arrived, no post van was noted passing the door. Even 'White Van Man,' has deserted us. If it carries on like this I may have to spend my own money on things just to have parcels to wait for.
However, while I wait, I do have several new books to read, they are in the queue like so many others, and a book voucher to squander on Amazon's cheap books also. It would be terrible not to have books awaiting study would it not?
Another marvellous piece of sham PR today. Having discovered that 95% of people do not wish to return to 'Imperial Weights' and are fine with 'Metric,' the Brexit promise to return to 'imperial' has been dropped. On the same day they announce, with a smug grin, that from today you can buy wine in pint bottles! Brilliant!
Of course there is one or two problems here. For one, no-one bottles wine in pint bottles, and no-one intends to start. The other unfortunate fact is that no wine dealer, producer, buyer, wants pint bottles of wine. It appears Churchill asked for this many years ago, but since then not one soul has done this.
Another step towards destruction at Tory House.
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When I was starting work a very senior colleague celebrated his retirement by serving champagne in tankards....as I remember they had a heavy bottom with five stars from which the bubbles flowed upwards.
I imagine he took his glasses with him as I never saw anything like it again.
I can remember too when in France immigrant Brits being horrified - well, those who understood some French, anyway - when asked to 'partager une fillette' - une fillette being a young lady. It was also the term for a half bottle of wine in our area.
I just wonder whether Wetherspoons will be serving pints of wine?
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