tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6511661900311166393..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: lollyop,roast beef, oystersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-29073508228637667622010-03-18T11:54:48.968+00:002010-03-18T11:54:48.968+00:00Did you have me in mind when you provided complete...Did you have me in mind when you provided complete details of the Burgundy? Knowing I would ask if you didn't?<br /><br />You say the Gaby incident occurred thirty years ago. If so it could have been a close-run thing for an entirely different denouement. Didn't Simpson's have an anti-woman rule which extended some time after the Middle Ages? If so the Australian couple could still be chewing over a memory which confirmed all their latent prejudices about Pom-dom and led to a decision never to come here again.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-38006924503560408132010-03-18T06:33:28.119+00:002010-03-18T06:33:28.119+00:00I hope and believe CC is right! The days of that ...I hope and believe CC is right! The days of that kind of wide-eyed travel are perhaps gone, people are more sophisticated now and the world smaller. Disappointments may be fewer, but good surprises will be too.<br /><br />'old times and present ambitions', is how it should be. May your in-tray always be full!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-376707983780337332010-03-17T22:36:26.368+00:002010-03-17T22:36:26.368+00:00The Australian couple are probably home this very ...The Australian couple are probably home this very day regaling a neighbor, or grandson or plumber with how that pleasant English chap,<br />seeing their disappointment, gave them directions to that grande stereotypical English restaurant in the Strand. Where they gorged on rare roast beef and yorkshire pudding. ;-)CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.com