Originally Posted by Paul Markham

I bought two bottles of very nice and fairly expensive champagne last week end. The idea was one bottle for dinner, the other was to welcome in the New Year. The first one tasted so good we drank the second one as we had a third bottle of local sparkling wine in the fridge for toasting in the New Year.

It tasted horrible and we were left with our daughters fizzy lemonade type drink. So at mid night there was the 3 of us and neighbors, watching the fireworks from the local manor house, our village and surrounding ones toasting the New Year with fizzy lemonade. It's things like that you remember.

Great night.