Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Summer in the city where the air is still\/A baby being born to the overkill\/Who cares what people say\/We walk down love’s motorway\/Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves\/And singing hearts and flowers<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ve spent a good portion of today trying to find a musical introduction to the email that would reflect the fabulous weather we have been enjoying of late. I finally went with the slightly surreal pop lyricism of Aztec Camera for a variety of reasons: <\/p>\n \u2022\tRoddy Frame is from East Kilbride, so close enough to link in with the Commonwealth Games There are many joys and also some hard times that come with running your own business, especially a wine shop. <\/p>\n We work long hours, we rely on people walking through the door and actually liking the wines we have selected. Every day we have to try to be as jolly at 8pm as we were at 11am, which is, of course, easy as pie. However, one of the joys is the fact that we get to choose our own dress code. Alex has always been strict about us wearing closed-toed shoes (something to do with glass breakages and customers not necessarily wanting to see our feet) but otherwise no real restrictions apply.<\/p>\n Which is why we\u2019ve been wearing shorts and polo shirts for the last few weeks and it\u2019s been darn glorious. It\u2019s a small perk but it\u2019s a perk nonetheless!<\/p>\n Exodus\/Movement of Jah people!\/Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!<\/em><\/p>\n This link, courtesy of Mr Marley, is perhaps a bit more obvious. The last of the schools closed their doors for summer this week and the roads were soon swamped with estate cars filled with footballs, boogie boards, swimming costumes and parasols. Like a plug being pulled from a bath somewhere around well, Bath let\u2019s say, London has been emptied and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall have been filled to the brim.<\/p>\n We\u2019re still here though, selling Ros\u00e9 by the tanker and keeping the fridges filled, so if you\u2019re still here too, take pleasure in having the city to yourself and space to park your car!<\/p>\n Not much more to add I believe. <\/p>\n The Wine School<\/strong> (consecutive Wednesdays, 17th September to 22nd October – \u00a3150) is slowly swelling in numbers, if you haven\u2019t signed up yet, take advantage of the shorter queues we will have over the next week or two \u2013 details attached.<\/p>\n Wine & Cheese evening \u2013 Thursday 4th September at 8pm<\/strong> same rules as ever, \u00a320 per person. <\/p>\n Wines to taste this weekend<\/strong> will be the southern French, oyster-shuckers selection, Domaine F\u00e9lines Jourdan Picpoul de Pinet 2013 \u00a311.99<\/strong> a white wine built for July drinking and in the red chair we will be opening a BBQ classic Jewel Collection Old Vine Zinfandel 2012 \u00a312.99<\/strong><\/em> from Lodi, California \u2013 what better wine to match your grilled meats!<\/p>\n They\u2019ll be open tonight from 5pm and all day tomorrow, so come in and enjoy them both whilst admiring Wayne\u2019s knees!<\/p>\n Toodle-pip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Summer in the city where the air is still\/A baby being born to the overkill\/Who cares what people say\/We walk down love’s motorway\/Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves\/And singing hearts and flowers I\u2019ve spent a good portion of today trying to find a musical introduction to the email that would reflect the […]<\/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-442","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\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\tThe words make absolutely no sense whatsoever but in the late 80\u2019s (1988, I believe) it wasn\u2019t ever about lyrics making sense
\n\u2022\tAll the other songs I could think of relating to hot weather, cities and such like seemed to revolve around it being too hot in here\/we should probably take our clothes off\/let\u2019s go out tonight and get drunk\/And then take our clothes off\/It\u2019s too hot to be dressed\/let\u2019s go dancing and get drunk\/and then let\u2019s take our clothes off….
\n\u2022\tWhich just didn\u2019t seem appropriate for what I was trying to say<\/p>\n