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Heading home from a week's worth of rambling on the Pembrokeshire Coast of Wales with a couple of days in London at the end of the trip, I had a chance to swing by a favorite spot, Cadenhead's Whisky Shop, Scotland's oldest independent bottler. If you are a fan of single malt, you won't find a more appealing shopfront, with unique single cask bottlings from all your favorite distilleries listed in chalk on big blackboard along with pertinent details. Though I had to sacrifice some travel clothes and check my bag, I've managed to squirrel away couple of fun bottles for the flight home. Reason enough to make the next Book Group meeting even if you don't particularly enjoy Tinker, Tailor!
By the way, while in London, we had the good luck to pick up a couple of returned tickets for the sold out production of Shakespeare's Richard III starring Martin Freeman of Sherlock fame. The play is set and staged in 1979 Britain (The Winter of Discontent) in a version of Churchill's War Rooms. Interestingly, the program notes cite the dictatorship of Kim Jong-Il and Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in the same paragraph as inspirations for the production format. The relevancy of the Book Group discussions is a gift that never stops giving!
