tasting wine and saving lives – your more than average guide to the good stuff.
I'd been eyeing up the Old Bridge wine fair for some time, wondering whether I should go. These things can get out of hand you see and with so many wines to try, and such little room in my cellar, there was the potential for things to end in disaster. I was saved, albeit to [...]
Call me Britney, because I did it again. After vowing to never drink more than I should, to always have a glass of water between drinks, because I never wanted to feel 'like this again' history repeated itself on Thursday. Like a fish to water, all memories of deathly hangovers left me as I tucked [...]
I was going to write a blog post called '10 things I learnt during sober October' but, well, I didn't learn an awful lot. Being sober for a whole month helped me figure out a few things, but after the first few weeks passed, very slowly, and I realised it was easy giving it all [...]
I thought Sober October would be harder, I really did. I mean, we're only halfway through but I'm not quitting now, it's too easy. There was only one day where I shed a little tear that I wasn't going home to a cosy bottle of red and that was on the 2nd October. Amidst my [...]
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 [...]
It’s difficult to know where to start when you aren’t doing something regularly. Which makes me think of writing becoming something more physical really, rather than just a stream of thoughts and a tap tap tap on the keyboard. I suppose it’s similar getting back into running. That’s tricky too isn’t it. You have to [...]
