So anyway, what I was going to say is: champagne + chips == great. (Believe it!) But
1 not a case of mulled wine2, no.
2 I didn't trust myself with mulled wine after dropping a glass of the stuff on the pale cream carpet of the lodgings of the Master of Peterhouse (after Sunday's carol service3, at which it was good to see
3 About which more later, hopefully, when I've cleared my enormous LJ backlog!