tasting wine and saving lives – your more than average guide to the good stuff.
My normal route in the morning is currently closed. There are signs everywhere stating ‘Diversion’ but curious as I am, I thought I’d go past all of them to see just how closed we were talking. It turns out, there’s just a tiny bit of scaffolding up for the rebuilding of a wall, plenty of [...]
Social Media has been getting a lot of bad press lately but if any of these journalists were any good, they'd be sharing both sides of the story. Yes, there are trolls, perverts, terrorists and I don't know what else on popular sites such as Instagram and Twitter but there's also an option to block [...]
I suppose this is completely boring of me by beginning by talking about the weather but we need to acknowledge the drop in temperature so that I can explain the huge pile up of big reds I have on my windowsill waiting to be reviewed. It was all so innocent before, rosé here, a light [...]
Rosé is dangerous isn’t it, for something the same percentage as ordinary wine it goes down alarmingly fast. And funnily enough it gets you just as burritoed as the same quantities of red wine would, but you would never drink that much red wine because you would turn into a burgundy coloured cushion, mouth as [...]
Writing about Ascot was one of the first ever blogs I posted on this site. I'm reading it back now and thinking how remarkable it is how differently we write at different times. When we're in a different frame of mind or when we have been slightly influenced by something we've read elsewhere, always unintentionally [...]
I need to begin by explaining myself. After my somewhat enthusiastic snail blog post, I came down with a cold (if you remember, it was that week where it went from warm weather to arctic conditions). After the snails had eaten their carrot and left bright orange shit all over their container, I had one [...]
Some people crave cocaine, some people crave sex and what do I crave? Snails. It's not just the snails themselves, I love the whole experience. Firstly, it reminds me of a brilliant holiday with my friend Ross and his fantastic family. Secondly, dipping du pain into the juice surrounding the snails is one of life's greatest [...]
