Meetings at Le Chai cheer me up - good architecture just lifts you doesn't it? Libby and Clare tell me their plans for April's big shipment of Castillon wine to London Bridge by water - from right outside this building. Expect the dark river will look more inviting by then.
Francois Lurton comes over. Walking carefully since he broke his back in the Paris-Dakar! Amazing family; the Lurtons. Royalty in Bordeaux. So many of them! Each with an excellent chateau or four. And the grand old man still at his desk every day. At 86!! Perish the thought!
Go for tea with Anne Marie at her Comptoir (I have taught her how to make tea properly now. However her idea of a dash of Rum is good).
The lads - Jean Marc, Mark, Henry, Carl and Yann from Ch La Brande... join for a beer. Libby the flower amid thorns. ... and then we sample the new menu by new chef Remy who is Ayme's partner and was the chef at 'MyaLaCarte' in Caversham owned by Caleb's (at Will's brewery) sister. It’s a right little mafia we have here. Anyway the tempura oysters are fabulous. As usual when eating here with stacks of open cases of every decent wine in Castillon lying around the hall, we sample rather to many Castillons. But ... that's our job!
9 o'clock with no voice left, go to bed with a fistful of pills.
Amazingly I do wake again. Except for my voice. It is gone! Croaked.
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