02.26.07
Cumbria Train crash caused by faulty points – official report
The official report into Friday’s train crash that killed one person when a Virgin train derailed has been published and is available to download here
Coffee review – Ethiopian Sidamo
This is an aromatic, sweet coffee which tastes almost of cherry tomatoes. The finish is long and gentle – an ideal coffee for beginners.
Delicious.
02.25.07
Lent – is it possible to give up wine for 40 days and forty nights?!
Yes that’s right! I am trying to give up wine for the whole of lent.
Lent is the Christian season that precedes Easter – a time of reflection and self-control. So will the temptation of a nice claret be too much?! We’ll see! Check back here for updates on the no-wine situation.
Leave a comment if you are giving something up and tell how it’s going!
02.20.07
Your Message in a bottle free performance artwork!
A message in a bottle! The most romantic way to communicate!
We have access to the sea in West Wales, Pembrokeshire and are offfering to put your message in a bottle and throw it into the sea! Who knows where it will end up? This art performance is free to enter, so please send us your messages by clicking below.
If you would like us to throw your message in the sea in abottle then please use this link to send us the message!
Chile is THE place for great tasting Pinot Noir
I am addicted to Pinot Noir from Chile. The two I have been tasting are Cono Sur 2006 and Bio Bio Valley 2006. Thet are both under a fiver and yet have great depth of flavour and taste.
Cono Sur is the best, an earthy nose with mushrooms and hedgerows to tase. Bio Bio is fruitier, slightly sharper, still an exciting taste.
If you want to explore a new wine region get on to Chile!
02.19.07
Lewis! Morse without Morse, but it works!
Last night (9pm ITV1) was the start of Lewis, which is Morse by any other name. The producers had to find a way to carry on after the death of the great John Thaw, and promoting lewis and giving him a lewis of his own was a good idea. The Oxford settings remain, although the classic car has gone. To keep the pseudo-intellectual element, Lewis’s Lewis (Hathaway) has been given an erudition that Morse would have been proud of, last night demonstrating his knowledge of ancient Greek myths.
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The story was an interesting blend of murder, without a murderer - which was an intriguing twist on most detective stories. Morse fell for the ladies occasionally, and Lewis leaves the case knowing surely, that although the girl didn’t take revenge herself, she arranged the situation. In his book she had done nothing wrong – we have a more amoral detective than Morse, but still a great modern potboiler