Cherries

We thought yesterday to inspect the new Waitrose opposite what used to be the Thorndike Theatre at Leatherhead, a theatre which used to do theatre, as can be seen at reference 1, but now rarely rises above cinema and am-dram.

On one famous occasion, we even saw the great Sir Peter Hall, a product of my own secondary school, come on stage to apologise for a pre-west-end version of Hamlet. The one and only time that we have seen a naked Hamlet. And we have never seen a naked Ophelia, which would be slightly more plausible. A down side used to be the very uncomfortable concrete seats.

The Waitrose turned out to be quite small, but with a much less intensive use of space that at, say the Tesco's at Horton Retail, which made the place seem small, but comfortable. We emerged with the cherries illustrated and a bottle of the Fleurie discovered at reference 2. A bottle which was grand enough to include a cork, something of a rarity, at least with the sort of wine which we usually buy. Mildly inconvenient even. Read all about it at reference 3 - a website which does not seem to include the bottle we bought. Perhaps they do special stuff for export, rather like we used to export very strange bottled beer to the continent, all dressed up in the clothes of old England for the consumption of ignorant foreigners. Will this Fleurie be as successful as the first go at the stuff? I shall report further in due course.

The cherries were a little dear at £3.50 for 375g but were much better quality than those reported at reference 4 and which probably weighed in at £6 for 1,000g. So Waitrose did indeed have the better product, consistent with the image they like to cultivate.

Reference 1: https://theatricalia.com/place/fz/thorndike-theatre-leatherhead.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/fragonard-fail-aka-yaverland-five.html.

Reference 3: http://www.bouchard-aine.fr/fr/.

Reference 4: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/trolley-82.html.