I know I have grey hair, a long memory & the pensioners awareness of living on a fixed income but is everyone else finding the cost of eating & drinking out increasing hugely? I took Lorna B for lunch at The Boathouse Café in Chichester Marina today. She had soup, bread & a half of bitter shandy (Yes, I know; I really do know how to treat a girl). I had a burger, chips & a pint of cutely labelled but indifferent tasting bitter. The burger was a ‘steakburger’ & nicely presented with mayo in a twee little dish & the ‘skinny fries’ in a little enamelled bucket (authentically chipped & rusty) but it was still just a burger. That cost £22.70! When I worked in St Giles in Oxford back in 1965, lunch in The Lamb & Flag was a steak & kidney pie & a half of real ale bitter for 1 shilling & 9 pence. For you youngsters, that is only 9p! Even a year later, the cost of a pint of Watneys Red Barrel (gosh, I really did used to drink that stuff!) in the Sergeants Mess at RAF Brize Norton was only 1/11d (10p). Last weekend, in another bar, we were being charged £5.75 for a glass of Australian Red Wine. Today, I bought bottles of a decent Aussie Red, Hardys Stamp Shiraz Cabernet, in Asda for £5.00 - & that is £1 a bottle more than I usually pay! The mark-up on wine in restaurants in France in the Eighties always used to raise the eyebrows but it is much the same over here now. No wonder we drink at home. Excuse me while I go & open a bottle of the Hardys & sit on my sofa, which is more comfortable than any seat in a bar. Cheers!
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:51:56 +0000
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