Thursday....

[kazzy_cee]

Last night's wine tasting was fun. It was organised by a wine merchant with a couple of branches in London (which of course are currently closed to customers). We had two white wine and three red wine samples to try and a sheet to use when thinking about the aromas and taste. There were just over 30 of us on Zoom (mostly couples) and it was rather

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[kathyh]

They are going to continue for the next couple of months online, and then might go back to only doing these in their branches which is a shame

I wonder if some of these Zoom things will continue in some form or another as I would have thought some businesses can reach more people online than they can in a physical branch. I realise with something like a wine tasting there is postage and things to consider, which might put paid to it, but a wider customer base must be a benefit. It will be interesting to see how much some of these temporary lockdown measure become part of our "normal" lives.

[kazzy_cee]

The WEA online courses have agreed that they will go back to the classrooms/halls but they will continue with courses online too. I’m very happy with that as it means there’s so much choice and I can still have courses with tutors who are far away. I imagine they’ve also realised it benefits anyone who is disabled and can’t get to their centres and that it fills up the courses across the country too.

[thismaz]

That sounds like fun.

[kazzy_cee]

It was good and very well managed for 90 minutes. We had the added task of illustrating each grape variety which was very silly but the little sketches/cartoons people came up with were fun.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Yay, I'm glad it was good fun at the wine tasting. I enjoyed it (and fed back to them that I'd do it online in future but probably not in person - though tbh the Waterloo branch is pretty accessible even though it's further from me!).

Was it #5 that you liked? It came top easily in my group!

[kazzy_cee]

Totally loved #5! Shame that at the moment they are only sending cases out as orders. Hopefully we will one day be able to visit the Waterloo branch too. I agree I hope they still do online events. It was really good to feel part of a group.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

I've been ordering their mixed half cases since the summer. It's been a proper highlight of lockdown, and I really hope they keep doing those. In theory I can drop into the Tooting branch, but it's a pain after dark. I might still go back for #5 for a very special occasion!