Middle Class Problems

I forgot one once. Used a large hypodermic instead!

Sorry about that I'll leave you to it then.........
Ha,ha,ha......

I've just packed away 3 sets of wine glasses still in their boxes which we got as extras for J's last birthday bash. They were £2 for a box of 6 from Asda - I ain't no snob . I always keep a spare bottle opener/cork screw in the car in case we I arrive somewhere which doesn't have the necessary, which can be very frustrating - I do own a ceremonial sword but not sure if I'd be safe wielding it towards a bottle.

A large screw and a pair of pliers work well for opening bottles, I found in my youth....

absent really, Friday? Wow - thinking of you and your brain buzzing with last minute details! x

A corkscrew is not a detail! It's aasvital as your passport.

Just buy your wine in screw top bottles! Or is that me being working class again.
It really, really is very tongue in cheek, a bit of fun. Except that I appear to fail my middle class entrance exams at every stage.

"Screw top bottles"!!!!!!!!!!!

Wine boxes solve the corkscrew problem.

That's even worse!

Wine is wine - however it comes - oops am I being working class there

It isn't worse if the wine is good, galen

Nothing wrong with screwtop bottles. You aren't going to get 'corked' wine from them! Most if not all NZ wine comes in screwtops (apart from the sparkling kind) and the quality is very good indeed. South American wines as well.

Unless sustainably obtained corks are used, screw tops are more ecologically sound.

Agreed! But unfortunately non of the premier cru wines seem to come in screw top bottles. But my tonic water does!
And surely ladyees, we wouldn't drink a 2nd cru wine , would we?

Actually on my last cruise I went on a trip in Spain or Portugal where we were told that local cork oak growers were being put out of business by plastic corks and screw tops.

Ten years ago, I was on a Ramblers' holiday in Portugal. When we were in a cork oak plantation, a local guide told us that there was a virus attacking the trees and that could put the growers out of business. Evidently this did not happen.

Don't you just love it when the cork breaks off half way? Choices ...push it all the way in or dig it out a bit at a time? Or go for a screw top next time.?

The incident I was referring to happened a long time ago before screw top wine bottles. If they had been drinking vintage champagne it would not have been a problem either, just remove the wire, hold the cork and turn the bottle ensuring cork leaves with a whisper like a maiden's sigh and not loud like a Duchesse's fart

Agreed!

saw Samphire on the fish stall on the market yesterday .

£7 a pound , I nearly fell over with shock .

Needless to say i didn"t buy.

Harrigran One always turns the bottle not the cork for champagne.

Turning the bottle, not the cork....one of the best tips I've ever been given.

Yes Bags, I've drunk wine from a jam jar. It was a residential training weekend, party in a bedroom, not enough tooth mugs. A jam jar and a marmalade jar were liberated from the next mornings's breakfast table, emptied and washed. It was fine.

#longtimeago

I was pulled over at airport security last time we went through. "Madam, you have open bottles in your bag". Open bottles? No, surely not, even I'm not so forgetful. "Yes, madam, two open bottles". And in he fished to pull out 2 corkscrews. One is never enough.