Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the Sue Gray report delivered everything we expected but appears to have changed nothing. We have a child\u2019s swing and slide damaged in the Downing Street garden and people leaving (by the back door) after 3.oo am on the morning of Prince Philip\u2019s funeral. Evidence not of a work event but just one of the examples of evenings where a group of people properly strapped it on leaving empty bottles scattered across desks, red wine on walls and even sick for the cleaners to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say you can tell a lot about people by the way they treat their staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it\u2019s a work event. In our experience, leaving do\u2019s aren\u2019t work events held in offices, they are held after work at the pub, something that wasn\u2019t allowed. Funerals, surely the ultimate leaving do, were restricted to less people than those attending these leaving do\u2019s. Anyway, we\u2019ve at least had it confirmed that the moral vacuum at the centre of government is indeed a moral vacuum at the centre of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I suspect it won\u2019t be the last we hear of it but perhaps for this week it will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In completely unrelated news, the Treasury and Mr Sunak have announced a windfall tax on energy companies that was voted against by all Conservative MP\u2019s, just a week ago. The money will at least be spent on easing the cost of living crisis for low income families. The distant part of me that remembers how inflation works does wonder how increased government spending will do anything to ease it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess we just continue kicking cans down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know about you but we\u2019ve had dreadful trouble hiring a private jet this week. It turns out they are all in Switzerland as the great and the good are all assembled in Davos. As you\u2019d expect, the discussion has been dominated by the war in Ukraine. Of note though, is that the OECD sponsored deal to tax multinationals has been postponed to 2024, another can kicked down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernie Ecclestone got arrested in Brazil this week for having a gun in his bag when it was X-rayed at security before he boarded a private jet to Switzerland. He said that whilst it was his gun, he didn\u2019t realise it was in his bag. I have a certain amount of sympathy for this explanation having lost a corkscrew under very similar circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, Top Gun Maverick is at the cinema, I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all going aren\u2019t we? I\u2019m expecting Primark to be full of flying jackets and jumpsuits too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With last week\u2019s news of no ATP ranking points being awarded at Wimbledon this year, we find ourselves agreeing with Andy Murray. Nobody watching cares about the points. We don\u2019t remember that the winner got awarded 2000 points; we remember that they won Wimbledon. That said, it amused us enormously to discover the possibility that even if Djokovic plays and wins at Wimbledon this year Medvedev could still become World No1 as Djokovic loses the 2000 points awarded for winning last year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RideLondon is this weekend, heading out on its new route through Essex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re in a car, expect some frustrating road closures and a fair amount of traffic through Parliament Square along the Embankment, out through Epping Forest to almost Chelmsford and back. If you\u2019re on a bike, expect some awesome road closures and no traffic through Parliament Square along the Embankment, out through Epping Forest to almost Chelmsford and back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jubilee Week Opening Hours<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to Her Maj. interfering with the natural fall of Bank Holidays, we are operating a bit differently next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MONDAY 30TH MAY\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TUESDAY 31ST MAY \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOON \u2013 7 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n WEDNESDAY 1ST JUNE NOON \u2013 7 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THURSDAY 2ND JUNE NOON \u2013 6 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n FRIDAY 3RD JUNE \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 NOON \u2013 6 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SATURDAY 4TH JUNE \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOON \u2013 7 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SUNDAY 5TH JUNE\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve opened the white suitcase and found Veritable Jurancon Sec 2019 (\u00a310.99)<\/strong>, a crisp and dry bottle of deliciousness from the foothills of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es. It turns out that the red arrived in a box to the back door fresh from the hills inland of Tarragona. Marco Abella Mas Mallola 2018 (\u00a327.99)<\/strong> is from Porrera in Priorat, where the family has been involved in wine since the 15th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like our peers in Downing Street we\u2019re off \u00a0now, out of the back door and will assume complete responsibility!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Well, the Sue Gray report delivered everything we expected but appears to have changed nothing. We have a child\u2019s swing and slide damaged in the Downing Street garden and people leaving (by the back door) after 3.oo am on the morning of Prince Philip\u2019s funeral. Evidence not of a work event but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}