White clear out

Had a bit of a clear out of the wine store yesterday and surfaced a couple of bottles of white that really need drinking. The picture above shows one such bottle, a delicious Burgundy from Corton-Charlemagne, a Grand Cru from 2003 and showing nicely. Apricots all day long with this one, you'd hardly guess it was Chardonnay at all, more like a Rhone white! Luckily I have one more of these so I'll be dusting it off next weekend I reckon, perfect with a Risotto or similar..

Friday Smirk

The boys pointing out how some of our religious brothers and sisters hear argument and disagreement as hate-speech and intolerance. It's a shame, as if the boot was on the other foot (i.e. if religion was in the minority and they were swamped with irreligious sentiment all day from tv, radio, film and politicians) they'd probably go postal.

Theology Thursday

Sounds about right Peter..

Cape Memories

We were fortunate enough to visit Cape Town, South Africa back in January of this year, it was great to escape the Northern Hemisphere Winter for a few weeks, soak up some Sun and see the wonderful animals and sights of Africa. The map above shows the Cape of Good Hope in 3d form, it's at the top of Table Mountain above the city and has a little arrow pointing toward London. At a distance of 9,670 km it's roughly 20% of the circumference of the entire planet away from home!

Tuesday Titter

When I was working I used to hate it when my birthday wasn't on a Friday or Saturday, although in recent years my company gave people a day off on their birthday (gratis) which was a nice touch, but you still can't go too mad on a school night.

Memory Drain

Ahhh, remember frosty, crisp mornings...

Sunday Smile

About right, probably not smile-worthy tho...