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How boring am I? (Please don't answer that - just resist the temptation). Just on my third mug of tea this morning.  |
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How boring am I? (Please don't answer that - just resist the temptation). Just on my third mug of tea this morning. 2nd coffee already drunk, sudden feeling of dehydration, time for carrot juice. How boring are you?? I don't know, but we could invent a questionnaire (sp?) for this very purpose... |
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How boring am I? (Please don't answer that - just resist the temptation). Just on my third mug of tea this morning. 2nd coffee already drunk, sudden feeling of dehydration, time for carrot juice. How boring are you?? I don't know, but we could invent a questionnaire (sp?) for this very purpose... Please don't bother. Suffice to say I'm very boring.  |
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« Reply #139 on: 10:25:33, 03-10-2007 » |
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How boring am I? (Please don't answer that - just resist the temptation). Just on my third mug of tea this morning. 2nd coffee already drunk, sudden feeling of dehydration, time for carrot juice. How boring are you?? I don't know, but we could invent a questionnaire (sp?) for this very purpose... Please don't bother. Suffice to say I'm very boring. What? Boring? Mud wrestling, stiletto wearing Milly, boring? You`re not trying hard enough, Milly?  |
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« Reply #140 on: 20:17:29, 10-11-2007 » |
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« Reply #141 on: 20:48:17, 10-11-2007 » |
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Oh yes, that reminds me, I left a bottle of Orval on the kitchen table to warm up a bit...
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« Reply #143 on: 23:07:51, 10-11-2007 » |
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Mr Sudden,
Super! I will never look at Nigella in the same way again.
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« Reply #144 on: 23:11:03, 10-11-2007 » |
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Props to Mr Barrett for bringing that to my attention. On this very forum indeed!
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« Reply #145 on: 20:39:41, 25-11-2007 » |
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I hope you enjoyed the Baltika beer, Tommo? Very fine stuff, but if you can find Yar-Pivo, particularly the "Yantarnoe" ("Amber") one, it's very nice too. Here it's about 2-3 roubles more than Baltika, so about £0.60 for a 0.5l can   Talking of which, this evening I am sipping Pinot Grigio. Nothing exceptional about that, except that the supermarket have bar-coded it wrongly. I noticed this a fortnight ago when buying some wine to take to a party, and since then I've been away - but the mistake continues. All the other Pinot Grigios on the shelf are around 320-480 roubles, and this one is marked 345 roubles on the shelf-ticket... but when they ring it up at the till, they charge you 127 roubles (which is £2.15). It's a very nice one (not completely bone-dry with some nice fruit in it) so I'm popping back tomorrow with a trolley, with Christmas festivities in mind |
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« Reply #146 on: 13:10:43, 04-07-2008 » |
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Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.Does no one here drink any more? Not now sipping but sipping here last night (here at the moment is Paris 10e, since you ask) interspersed with frequent invocations to Notre Sauveur Jésus-Christ was a Chateau Redortier Beaumes-de-Venise Côtes-du-Rhône Villages from 2003. I know that looks frightfully pretentious but bear with me. 2003 saw a frightful heatwave in France - I remember a week in Paris which had 40° or damn near it every day. Word had it that any grape that could survive that was going to give some pretty spectacular juice. If this is any basis for judgement then there might be something in that. If slightly tart, battle-hardened fruity complexity that doesn't let go until after a finish that goes through at least five or six distinct stages is your thing then it might be worth discussing the topic of 2003 with a local specialist. And in any case should you find the aforementioned drop you now know what to do. (Here it was €12 from the cheese shop on the corner so you shouldn't need to push the boat out.) 
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« Reply #147 on: 13:35:18, 04-07-2008 » |
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I never drink red wine but Muscat Beaumes-de-Venise, ice cold. NOM NOM NOM
For those who don't know it is a dessert wine or an aperitif or to accompany foie gras. It is liquid sunshine.
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« Reply #148 on: 13:37:54, 04-07-2008 » |
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If slightly tart, battle-hardened fruity complexity that doesn't let go until after a finish that goes through at least five or six distinct stages is your thing then it might be worth discussing the topic of 2003 with a local specialist. Ollie, you really should consider becoming a writer of some kind. Oh, wait a minute... er,... Nice to see this thread back on the table. |
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I wish I could be free of having to prove my age. I tried to buy a beverage while I was away, and they would not sell me it, due to lack of passport/ other acceptable thing.  I don't have a driving licence, so that's that gone; I've tried my student card and that hasn't been accepted; and my passport photo was taken when I was 15...hmfff... |
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