Saturday 24th July

Drive down to Waitrose in the morning. For some reason, whenever we physically visit the supermarket we spend more than visiting Ocado. And this is despite me sacrificing my 99p gingernuts! In the evening I rustle up some nifty lamb chops with a bottle of Calon-Segur 2006 and then I am so knackered from writing [...]

Friday 23rd July

Today is Lily’s last day at school, her final day in reception year that has passed in the blink of an eye. I do feel some sort of poignancy as she blithely skips to school and enters Ms. P’s “Owls” class for the final time. She gives her teacher a small Japanese themed gift, which [...]

Thursday 22nd July

Spend the entire day working on my Pomerol book, transcribing an interview with ober-oenologist Michel Rolland that I did way back on a freezing Monday morning last December. In order to feel like I am making tangible progress, each chapter is printed off and files in its own clear plastic folder. Sounds anal, but it [...]

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