So, Christmas is here. The preparations have been eventful. The fat furry slug (FFS) had a bent foot. FFS was trying to walk, and doing quite well, but the front…
Recently on the main wineanorak site…
Lots of updates to the main wineanorak.com site in the last few weeks. In case you are a blog-only reader, I thought I’d draw your attention to them: Vin de…
Oh dear – awful videos promoting natural cork
As if the recent James Suckling dot com teaser videos weren’t bad enough, now we have two more horrors. They are two rather awful videos supporting natural cork. A strange,…
Photos: my flickr feed
Flickr feed is a nifty tool that presents a slideshow of recently uploaded pictures. Here’s mine:
A little, fat, furry slug – now a week old
Forgive the non-wine related indulgence of a post on our little sluggy – RTL’s singleton pup. She’s now a week old, and doing very well. Soon she will open her…
Making coffee: my new toy
I’m not a coffee geek. But I am interested in coffee, although I know there’s a great deal to learn about the subject (including some juicy flavour chemistry). I’ve just…
Rosie’s new arrival
I arrived back from Chile this morning to find out that Rosie The Labradoodle had given birth at 0815. Just one puppy – a girl, and she looks like she’ll…
Elqui: visiting the Tololo observatory
On Saturday morning we drove up to the Tololo observatory. Elqui is famous for its clear skies and lack of light pollution – a perfect place for a light telescope,…
A quick post from the road – wonderful experiences
Too much to write about. Too little time. And too slow an internet connection to post photographs. The last two days have been incredible. I have learned a great deal….