Sherry

[liadnan]

Oh dear, I seem to have brought sherry (pronounced shér, of course) in cold blood. I think this may be some kind of lifechanging watershed moment.

Proms last Friday: Martin Neary doing the Bach toccata & fugue on the newly rebuilt Albert Hall organ (rather poorly, I thought, but it's good to hear the organ again, and working properly for the first time in my lifetime), BBC SO and Chorus with Elgar's The Music Makers (new to me, impressive piece solidly performed) and Holst Planets (started weak but came on form fairly quickly). I intended to go again tonight, for Dvorák (no I can't be bothered to find the code for r-with-a-thingy-on-top) Dmitrij but I'm not really in the mood for 190 minutes of unfamiliar opera.

Comments

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

You don't need to worry too much about the sherry. Your friends and acquaintances won't really believe you did it. If you don't think about it too much then you'll start to forget yourself. The occasional flashbacks will plague you for a few years but eventually you will learn to deal with them.

That's all true if you only bought a couple of drinks. If you bought a whole bottle while completely sober then I'm afraid that I expect it's all over for you.

[liadnan]

I'm afraid it is a whole bottle. I was having a spaced-out afternoon and found myself in Waitrose drinks section

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... you could always try saying you bought it for trifle?

[liadnan]

Does that actually count as better though?

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Depends if you add hundreds and thousands....

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't surprise me. Remember, his nickname at the Abbey was always Dreary Neary.

[liadnan]

True. But James O'Donnell and Martin Baker, both of whom I have the odd drink with via mutual friends, have always spoken quite highly of him (maybe merely out of politeness), so I had hopes. It was.,, sloppy mainly.

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

Do not be ashamed ! Drink it. Nice alcohol.

[liadnan]

It is actually.
Is all R&S' fault.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

I'll fetch you the housecoat and slippers.

And shouldn't you be in bed?

[liadnan]

Frankly I should always be in bed.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

You and me both, dear (she says, as her joints make all manner of popping noises as she gets up).

I feel a million years old these days.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

But, but, but...Sherry is good! Especially some of the drier Spanish sherries...

[fi.livejournal.com]

Sherry is not as naff as one might think it is. I think it has moved away from its in-your-granny's-cupboard, saddo connotations.

Not that I've ever had any, but still...

Hot port anyone?

[gonecaving.livejournal.com]

In the middle of summer? OK, you may have a point!

[liadnan]

I've only ever found hot port in England once, in Bath.

[fi.livejournal.com]

I haven't found it in Greece yet...

[liadnan]

Well, hot port may be desirable in the current excuse for an English and Irish summer, but though Fi is indeed another Irishwoman she's in Athens...

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you aren't drinking Baby Cham