These book-launches are a thirsty business

But Alice is quite the most elegant of all those attending (we're at the launch of a book celebrating the centenary of the establishment of the Kirstenbosch gardens). Delicious food, superb bubbly, the writer does drone on rather, but lovely company and a good occasion at a new venue for us (the Hohenort Cellars, where we shall go often once we've won the lottery).