A quick plug for a chance to taste Portuguese wines tomorrow at Lord’s. It’s a consumer tasting organized by Viniportugal, and incorporates the ‘Big Tasting’ live with Oz Clarke, in…
Feeling happy on a sunny day
Mood is a strange thing. I just woke up this morning feeling happy. Then the kids were nice. The sun shone. I went for a walk with the dog. Spring…
Epiphytes
Just been walking the dog on Hounslow Heath. Sort of hinting at spring, today, but still quite cold. The highlight of the walk was finding some beautiful epiphytes (a term…
The Times to start charging for content
Today, News International announced that The Times and The Sunday Times will be the first of the UK’s popular broadsheet papers to start charging for content. From June, readers will…
Spring – best season of the year
Although we’ve had some hints of spring over the last weeks, today really feels like the first day of spring, with warm temperatures (just a hint of chill early on),…
Upcoming London Gastronomy Seminar: Cheddar Cheese
Just in case you’ve missed the various announcements, I wanted to draw the attention of readers to the next of the London Gastronomy Seminars. It’s this Friday, at the usual…
Some old family pics, and some thoughts on premox
Popped over to see my parents yesterday, who were staying with my younger sister, Hester. B-in-law William showed me the wines he had lined up for dinner – Ducru Beaucaillou…
Off travelling again
I’m in Heathrow Terminal 1, off on some more travels. Just a brief four day trip this time, to Portugal and Spain visiting a number of wineries I’ve not been…
A month after migrating servers, and some decent web stats
It has been a month since I shifted wineanorak.com from its old server to a new one – with decent bandwith allowance and proper webstat reporting (the last one was…