Sergeants' mess wine
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Sergeants' mess wine
Just been given a bottle of vin de table white. Bottled by Griersons, drink it?
I could put it in my permenant collection I suppose. Never invited into the sergeants' mess so no idea what it's like.
I could put it in my permenant collection I suppose. Never invited into the sergeants' mess so no idea what it's like.
If the NCO Aircrew of my acquaintance were anything to go by as arbiters of taste, I think you'll find that WOs & Sergeants Mess members won't tolerate overpriced or unpleasant rubbish, so I'm sure that the wine will be fine,
But drink it now rather than laying it down, I would suggest!
But drink it now rather than laying it down, I would suggest!
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As a member of the 'Woes & Joes' mess for a number of years I can never remember having seen wine being drunk. It was 'beer for real men' and 'wine for officers and poofs'. Note the differentiation there.
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Unfortunately, many of the RAF stations of which I spoke were, in those days, the subject of 'Unaccompanied Tours', unlike the apparent Butlin's Holiday Camp which they became latterly.
I was at Abingdon in 1959 when the Sgt's Mess at Abingdon let Brigitte Bardot have a drink in their mess after the Abingdon Officer's Mess refused her entry - not sure why - improperly dressed perhaps?
BB was making the film "Babette Goes to War" part of which was shot at Abingdon.
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BB was making the film "Babette Goes to War" part of which was shot at Abingdon.
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