"You can tell your mother has been to stay," said Bjarni, ominously. "Because we actually have some bread in the house."
Aw. I love the way Bjarni always sees the best in people — he hasn't even mentioned that all his whiskey is gone. But yes, we now have a fridge full of food after my mother very kindly took me round Tesco's at the weekend. Still, I gave her a good glare when I heard her reporting back to my father.
"Would you believe it," she gasped into the phone. "They took me to a restaurant that didn't serve alcohol. An Indian place! And the next day was Good Friday so that was dry too. And they have one of those thingies that you stick in the top of a wine bottle to stop it going off. Can you imagine!"
That "thingy" that you "stick in the top of a wine bottle" has caused my parents great amusement over the years. Who the hell opens a bottle of wine and then doesn't finish it in one go? Well, me and Bjarni, actually. Sometimes we like to drink in moderation, if you can believe that, and often enjoy a glass or two of red in the evening, re-corking it afterwards to keep it fresh for the weekend. Can you imagine!
I can hear my father's tinny laughter on the other end of the line. I think I even hear them refer to me as "Saffy".
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Ok, a dry dinner I can deal with, endorse even. But TWO people, opening a bottle of wine, and not finishing it? I can't get behind that!
ReplyDeleteMy parents have one of those wine stoppers. But I think they only use it on the third bottle. At lunch.
ReplyDeleteBugger, comment got lost. I was just saying that we have a glass cone at home to recork a bottle with but it doesn't get much use. Alas. Pretty, though.
ReplyDeleteDrinking in moderation, while a good idea, isn't as fun.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, opening a bottle of wine with two people and not finishing it? I think the wine stopper inventor is trying to do some social engineering.
Being a peasant, I tend to favour screw top wine like Hardy's, so I don't have that problem. My biggest one is sticking a second white in the freezer (let's face it, one is never enough) and then discovering it exploded in the ice tray, next time I go in to get frozen peas. Doh.
ReplyDeleteWe have this kind of "vacuum" thingy that sucks the air back out to make it doubly good.
ReplyDeleteI heard a rumour that screw caps will replace all corks soon enough, even the fancy bottles.
I hope my children never put me in that position.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find my wine stopper thing the other day. I haven't used it in ages.
ReplyDeleteScrew caps - so much more convenient, they should have come in years ago. It was only the snotty wine connoisseurs who kept corks going for so long. And those muscular blokes who liked to impress women by wrestling laboriously with a corkscrew for ten minutes.
ReplyDeleteHow does the stopper stay on the boxes spout?
ReplyDeleteI assume you use Magnum bottles?
ReplyDeleteThere's a pub in Co. Meath called Inn Moderation.
ReplyDeleteThat is the only reason anyone's given me yet for visiting Meath.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure your mum isn't Nicelandic? They're famous for tossing the cap as soon as the bottle is opened.
ReplyDeleteWe have one of those vacuum cork thingies as well. It's one of the most superexcellent inventions ever.
I think even with the screwtops, after opened you still need the vacuum top to keep it fresh...I think.
ReplyDeletemy cork stopper thingy is also a snowglobe, with a little christmassy squirrel in it. unsurprisingly, it's still in its box.
ReplyDeleteI have a wine stopper thingy, and I love feeling all righteous and responsible when I have to use it to re-cork the bottle if I'm having a glass of wine on my own.
ReplyDelete"It was hardly worth saving those TWO DROPS of wine," my husband will lament later when he sees how much I've 'not drunk'.
"But," I cry in glee. "At least I didn't manage the whole bottle all to myself, now that would be overdoing it on a Monday night."