Changing the guard

Back to the Blenheim for lunch earlier in the week to find that they had run out of Sauvignon Blanc and that there had been another change of table waiting staff.

So we had to make do with an Australian Chardonnay instead. Which served well enough, I am pleased to be able to say. According to the web site (reference 1): 'An all-time popular varietal, [yellow tail] Chardonnay has a rich creamy finish while being silky smooth and easy to drink. Flavour: rich and vibrant, with fresh peach and melon flavours and a hint of vanilla. Enjoy: with roast chicken or a picnic in the park'. A web site which does not come with arty snaps of mist drifting across the fields of grapes but does come with some entertaining family snaps.

Snaps for which the underlying html must be slightly tricky as the snaps visibly wobble against the yellow background as you click the zoom button in Microsoft Edge. In any event, a Sicilian family who have clearly done very well in the fifty years or so since they started making wine.

While our waiter without face mask had morphed into a waitress with. And we had to ask for the sheet on which to log our presence. Signs of relaxation.

Stuck with waggyburger (also known as Wagyu) for him and fish and chips for her. Entirely satisfactory.

During the proceedings we were able to inspect the shiny new dustcart attending to the dustbins. A foreign dustcart from the people at reference 2, from which we deduce that the Dutch are muscling in to the once proud UK waste management industry. A dustcart to meet every possible need, with electrical and hybrid options.

Towards the end of the proceedings we were presented with a vegetable marrow by an acquaintance of long standing, not seen to talk to for some years now. As it happened, BH had a couple of portions of some tomato flavoured beef mince in the freezer, so a day or so later, the marrow was sliced lengthwise and baked with a mince stuffing. Very good it was too, and as a young marrow, eaten with the skin on. Probably served with cabbage, although I can no longer remember what sort of cabbage.

Glasses by Leightons. People who offer serious eye doctors as part of the service. From whom I learned that the Italians have a stranglehold on the spectacle frame business if not the spectacle lens business.

Reference 1: https://www.yellowtailwine.com/.

Reference 2: https://www.geesinknorba.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.leightons.co.uk/.