A dull and overcast start, enlivened by some serious snogging in the passage between the High Street and the station and on the train to Epsom. Fairly serious considering the time of day, but I think there may have been some foreign influence. Think how some Brits behave when they they are abroad and think that they are far away from anyone who might tell tales.
Pulled a Bullingdon at Waterloo for an uneventful ride to Drury Lane, clocking 9 minutes and 24 seconds on this occasion.
First, visit the cheese shop in Shorts Gardens for some English cheese, both the regular cow's cheese but topped up on this occasion by a spot of sheep's.
Second stop, the Crown where the cheerful barmaid with lots of tattoos was all present and correct. Plenty of back chat. Including the important information that this pub did no food at all, no food beyond peanuts and crisps. It must be one of the very few pubs in London still devoted to drinking, so a mention in dispatches for Greene King. She also said her hours were 0900 to 2300, which seemed a bit grim, even with a few breaks.
Third stop, the chocolate shop, I think Rococo Chocolate in Earlham Street. Good chocolate, friendly and unpretentious staff.
Fourth stop, Terroirs for lunch, seemingly last visited as long ago as early July and noticed at reference 1. They had run out of their Chablis, so I tried the Sylvaner illustrated, a type of wine which I think was commonly served in the bars of Luxembourg back in the mid 1970's when I was there for a few months. Plenty of presence on the web, but not in the form of a vineyard website, at least not one that I could find. Wine very good, with a hint of bubbles and a strong hint of cider. And they managed without a bucket without making a great palaver about it, so it reached a little below room temperature, how I like it, before the end of the bottle.
Bread and butter very good, as usual here and as unusual almost anywhere else.
Small slices of lamb, served very rare, with interesting potatoes and vegetables. Aka 'Lamb Loin, Pink Fir, Kale & Mushrooms'. Pink Fir said to be a variety of potato, not that I would have known. Very good, but I think it would have been even better had the lamb been a little less rare.
Bread, Pont-l'Évêque cheese and Calvados to follow. (The waitress did not have a clue what the Marc of reference 2 was so that was not an option, working class drink or not). All very good. With the added bonus that Pont-l'Évêque is in the Calvados department in the Normandy region. But I must come clean: I had no idea that this was the case at the time.
Thought it best to walk back to Waterloo, just stopping off for a spot of the rather inferior Calvados sold at the Archduke.
On the return journey, I failed to get beyond one aeroplane at Earlsfield and the platform library at Raynes Park was empty apart from a few magazines without interest, at least as far as I was concerned.
PS: blogger seems to have got the idea that the innocent looking phrase ' 0900<hyphen>2300' means that I want a link to Skype. Maybe it is time that I uninstalled this bit of clutter on my laptop.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/cheese-hunt.html.
Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/revelation.html.
Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvaner.
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