sounds familiar. But there are four Cropwell Bishop Creamery blues, none called that, and it is likely to be one of them but I have no idea which! It’s not a hard cheese exactly,more squidgey.
Definitely a ripe Camembert, Carinthia. They had Brie as well but it wasn’t so ripe.
A lady I knew who was a showgirl in the 1930s who married a wealthy Harley St doctor drank nothing but her lethal gin/dubonnet cocktails and made sure every visitor had one
Gentlemen got whiskey or cognac
She was a darling and she spoilt me rotten sending me to the boutique to get a new outfit if she thought I had need of one
At Christmas I was sent to the posh jeweller to have the pick of the shop
All I did was help her with the choreography for the children’s chorus in the local pantomime and visit her and the doctor at least once a week
The name sounds really familiar but I don’t think it can be that one, because what we have is not really hard; but Nettlebed would be local to Henley, which adds to the plausibility…
I am just going to have to go there again, aren’t I, and scout it all out. They are a butcher too, and they get their lamb in on Wednesdays, so really fresh liver and kidneys. And they do fish, and make their own sausages…