Thursday 14th January – Lesser Spotted Hugh Johnson, material girls, Batailley smorgasbord

Hey, guess what? Right. Another Burgundy 2008 day, this time in the salubrious surroundings of Vintners Hall for OW Loeb. The merchant attracts an enviable array of wine glitterati: Jancis (pictured typing away on her laptop), Steven Spurrier and even the “Lesser Spotted Hugh Johnson”. I interrupt his tasting to probe him about Tokaji, since [...]

Wednesday 13th January

Just when the snow is melting to leave an ice-rink between home and station, another few inches of the white stuff is dumped on Guildford and its infrastructure immediately implodes. School is cancelled, which means by this rate Lily will graduate from university in about 2188, although bizarrely, Daisy’s kindergarten, which she was due to [...]

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