I did order, delivery charges, the cost of Petrol and logistics, makes free delivery a very sensible option to take.

I dont like killing my time with crowds, queues, traffic, store musac and all the hypermarket paraphanalia that make shopping so bloody dull.

I like food and wine shopping in France best, Greece, Spain & Portugal also fun, where there is an entertaining and vaguely artistic / creative element to retailing, and more smiling faces.. A decent climate helps a bit.

However, returning to the point.

I bought the Tesco Finest Premier Cru Chablis, that I particularly rate, so does Mel, and with free delivery, a no nonsense bottle price that is hard to beat. Ok this wine is £13.75 now, but you can spend a fiver over that and get nothing more than hype for you money.

The price has gone up by 50p on last year. VAT and inflation !

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Duncan

I did order, delivery charges, the cost of Petrol and logistics, makes free delivery a very sensible option to take.

I dont like killing my time with crowds, queues, traffic, store musac and all the hypermarket paraphanalia that make shopping so bloody dull.

Too true, MrD.

On wednesday, whilst in Comet I decided to buy a Stella Artois branded wine cooler for my lagers and she who must not be argued with's cheap summer wines.

£109.99 and none in stock but I was welcome to pay there and collect it in Llantrisant. Llantrisant is a 24m round trip up the M4, A game of musical chairs with 300 other cars all circling the world's biggest car park trying to get into the same space whenever someone leaves. Harrassed staff, impatient customers and queus for Pizza Hut that stretch almost as far as the M4.

I declined his lovely offer of kicking myself up my own arse and came home and googled. Yesterday, for £99.99 and no delivery charge, Sainsbury delivered my new SA wine/beer cooler.

Tidy.

And the Tesco Macon £4.99 jobbie is proper nice chardonnay. You can smell the chalk.

I missed this one, just back from almost drowning in north wales.

I have a £10 voucher valid 'til 10/7, there should be another free-delv by then.

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Yep, Im still here.

Oh dear...anywhere near Borth ?

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Dysynni Valley, not far away. I took my daughter boarding in the sea at Tywyn which is just up the road from Borth, however that was last Monday when the sun was shining.

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A month's rain fell in a day for parts of mid Wales at this time of year.

It's been soaking here, but not that bad. Like I said in my mail, I'm back on Autumn clarets and juicy rhones.

Mad for flaming June - but then north west France has been decidedly cool, the low (cyclone) is now coming across the channel !

What will the Loire harvest be like if this continues ?

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And the Tesco Macon £4.99 jobbie is proper nice chardonnay. You can smell the chalk.

I was a BF not taking that , I knew I needed to get on the site that evening, but I got caught in a systems / config and fix - and then.... midnight came and went. It was sparrow farts by the time I hit the sack.

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Duncan

Le Tour Stage 10 starts in Maçon on Wed 11 July. Big day in the high mountains.

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Bubbly day today - Epernay to Metz

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.

Free d/y up again at T (for 1 week)

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.