The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
We ordered some wine from Enoteca Capponi, one of our favourite Divinum exhibitors. When they came to deliver our order, we had the added lovely surprise of having won a magnum from their daily raffle, and they gave us a limoncello Colomba di Pasqua!. This, on top of two cases of very nice wine, will fill our bellies and raise our spirits for a while.
I was only supposed to volunteer a couple of evenings, but given that they were severely understaffed and Ben decided that he wanted to help out, I ended up doing Thu-Sat-Sun-Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun. It was good fun, though I was told to slow down the pace a couple of times :D It’s nice to feel appreciated for a job well done :) If you can, I highly recommend volunteering – it’s a good bunch of people and they treat you well! Plus. it’s a very good way to get your steps in!!
Also, thank you Domaine du Mont D’or and Enoteca Capponi for your kind gifts!
See you next time :)
Delphine, the head of the wine club, is leaving Nestlé for new adventures so we had a little apero on her boat to celebrate her departure. We were initially supposed to go out on the water but we stayed in the marina because the lake was a bit too windy and choppy. Was really nice to be sociable again!
Start from the top and work your way through the board. Ask your wine merchant for properly representative bottles of each, and aim for mid-range, affordable options.
The first mention of Bobble the owl in my blog goes all the way back to 2005. I don’t honestly remember when Bobble started living full-time in my bag. Probably while I was working at the EBI and traveling a lot for business.
In the years since, he’s been to Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the US. He’s driven boats, ferries, tractors, planes. He’s travel on planes, trains and automobiles. He’s drunk lots of coffee, beer, wine, gin, port and cocktails. He’s eaten everything from gourmet meals to roadside fast-food. He’s enjoyed vices like cigars, gambling and tattoos. He’s attended scientific conferences, training courses and workshops, West-End plays and movies.
Not bad for a little ball of stuffing :)
Long live the owl!
So, following on from this previous post, my recycling bin officially has a drinking problem.
It’s been exactly one month since it got emptied. In that time, it drank 18 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of gin, 1 bottle of vodka and 1 bottle of Kahlúa.
