Green & Blue

So, we went to the Green & Blue wine tasting last night and had a great time. It started at 7.30 and by the time we’d got Scrap to bed and the babysitter had arrived it meant we went out to drink alcohol without having had any tea. As expected, the pair of us were cross-eyed by the second sample.
I should explain why we were there – Robert had commented on the East Dulwich Forum that he hadn’t found them very helpful on the one time we’d been in the shop. Others felt the same and there were also various comments about the wine being expensive. Anyway, Kate the owner saw this discussion and invited us all to the shop for a tasting. I really didn't want to go under those circumstances and was annoyed with Robert for getting us into it. And it was a bit uncomfortable when Kate began the talk very defensively, explaining all their policies to us, the complainers, but it was fascinating and the wines were fantastic. And good for her for being bothered enough to get us all in. It is a brilliant and very special shop but I still feel it could do with being a bit more friendly in there.
It was interesting to meet the others, though by the time we got to chat at the end, I really couldn’t hold a sentence together. Robert spent the week's housekeeping on some lovely Lebanese red and got us out of there before my mouth really got us into trouble. We called in at Franklins and thank goodness we did because without their spectacular Welsh Rarebit, we’d have never made the walk back up the hill to Landcroft House.