It was my father's 60th - he selected different wines for each course and I'd spent the afternoon in the pub.
'go figure', as I believe our American cousins so aptly put it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 Jun 2013, 14:28, 1 reply)

Hahaha! Ruining a landmark birthday too - well played.
I'll still give Gidleigh Park a go at some point, over-seasoned food or not.
( Pig Bodine., Thu 27 Jun 2013, 14:49, closed)

It's a beautiful place to stay, it really is.
However there are gastropubs within a short drive in which you can get a better meal for a tenth of the price. It's so fucking salty you end up drinking like a fish to counteract it.

So you see it was that bounder Caines's fault I was sick, your honour.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 Jun 2013, 15:00, closed)

Points off for the use of 'gastropubs' Monty you dreadful flid.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 27 Jun 2013, 15:18, closed)

oh sorry I should have used the infinitely easier term
'dining pubs, you know the ones where the focus is on sit-down meals as opposed to drinking, you know, those ones'. I apologise.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 Jun 2013, 16:35, closed)