adamlechmere.bsky.social
Wine journalist and publisher of The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide, Academie du Vin Library
London
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Never a truer word spoken
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In fact any tool you can think of - secateurs - loppers - clippers - shears
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Scissors? Pliers? Etc
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What's next? Marley Bone instead of Marry le Bone? Tip of the iceberg
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"Oh great, more auto checkouts" - as no one ever said
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It's just so weird. "Nation of strangers" is a honed line. It's been thought about, and polished, through several iterations I should think. Have they all got bunker mentality already?
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You can imagine Enoch Powell thinking up a phrase like "nation of strangers" before (with a nasty chuckle) hitting on the rivers of blood line
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Isn't it tragic? And so politically inept! Do they think they can beat Farage at his own game? When has that ever worked?
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The English are very good at grey...
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4pm on May 5th and it's dark as the inside of a cow
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Whenever I go on a press trip I take my running gear to let it see a hotel room from the inside of my suitcase
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Hmm let's see. Depends where the Pinot Noir is from...
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I wish! it's every wine writer's dream to get into Pseud's Corner but only one or two of us have managed it
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Rightly piled on for pomposity and persnickety middle-aged patronising blitheringness
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I hate to seem pernickety but I'd say the first job of a poet is not to mix metaphors
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Lovely
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I think that's right. Performative cruelty
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some adherents are serious and some are not. Those who are serious are often motivated by religion[5] or conspiracy theories... Wikipedia
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I've eaten there a couple of times and had the brothers' food two or three times at various Penedes events. Always an experience but no plans to go back!
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Similar to those who realised rather late that Brexit was a mistake, or that Boris Johnson is a mountebank...
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At Can Roca in Girona the wine list (2 vols) is wheeled out on a kind of old-fashioned station porter's trolley...
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Can't argue with that
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But also inheriting a quite appalling mess
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Wrong job for him
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we call the TV remote the doofer
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I was...
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Correction I should say 400 50cl bots of the 93 - then after 99 they moved to 37.5cl
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Sad to hear that. The Jam were one of the greatest
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Looool