Beer and ferrero rocher

tiddlyompom — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:38:58 +0000

Beer is very good for your digestion, ancient civilizations knew this, their workers were given beer rations. Elizabethans drank beer over fetid water. I’ve come late to beer, but I’m a convert. Lagery beer that is, always like heavy (Arrols 80/ my favourite).
Ferrero rocher, another winner, maybe not so ancient, hazelnuts and chocolate, I feel sure someone must have put these two together as soon as it was possible. A sacred foodstuff and the kernel of a new plant: heady stuff.
I like the idea that sugar is a commodity the universe would ban, peculiar to Earth. I suspect alcohol might also fall into that category. But what wild chemicals await us out there in the cosmos?

Chilled

tiddlyompom — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:30:34 +0000

Gosh, what a long time ago it was when I was last here! Yet it doesn’t seem like it. Mostly because May was wished away in a flash so that we could all go on holiday. Or rather on experience, since we went on the Orient Express to Venice. Part of it was like going home ( one of my homes anyway) because my husband and I shared a compartment even smaller than the cabins we had shared at sea, part of it was dressing up and therefore not doing anything dirty or mundane and part of it was the usual freedoms associated with being on holiday. However, the feeling of being chilled and relaxed and un- stressed has remained, and I am trying hard to retain the feeling. Venice of course may be another reason, such an un- real and yet eminently practical city, where due to the maritime nature of things time runs slower anyway. I am determined to stay on maritime setting for as long as possible.
{raises glass}
Cheers!

Time and Tide

Beer and ferrero rocher

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