Monthly Archives: August 2009

Cheap but definitely not very cheerful Spent a rather dismal morning looking at some of the cheapest wines in the supermarkets for a piece due to appear in Harpers Wine & Spirit soon. I set an upper limit of £3 a bottle prior to any discounting, at which level some […]

First Taste August 2009 Week 2

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Mixed emotions chez Woods this evening. At approximately 6pm, our hamster Smudge trotted off to the great trundle wheel in the sky. She seems to have gone out on a high after having had an energetic work out in her plastic orb in the company of five rather rowdy children. […]

Good cork, bad cork, bye-bye hamster

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Happened to mention on Twitter today that I was eating home-made pork scratchings. We all have our vices, and although it’s years since I bought one of those strange small square bags from behind the bar, pork scratchings still have a corner (a small one) of my heart. I’d never […]

Scratching around for descriptions

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Cast your mind back, dear reader, to the year 2000. Pulp fans were actually able to discover what that girl in the song was doing on Sunday Baby (not much in reality, but the cafe at IKEA was open), Bordeaux produced a spectacular vintage, certainly a candidate for vintage of […]

Mount Horrocks Rocks

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