It is Daisy’s official third birthday and the Princess D. expects a mountain of presents at the foot of her bed upon awakening. She duly receives an easel and pens to enhance her budding artist career, although she keeps painting rather bizarre blue and pink splodges at nursery and claiming them to be mummy and [...]
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This weekend is Daisy’s 3rd birthday, her unofficial celebration today, the official one tomorrow. As a treat, she is allowed to don her reversible Sleeping Beauty/Snow White dress, replete with fake plastic gold tiara and since she is dressed as her alter ego, so her elder sister insists on becoming Snow White/Sleeping Beauty depending upon [...]
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A busy morning tarting up a series of German articles that I keep tweaking and editing. I should just send them off an be done with it. I leave around 11a.m. to head for “Hix” restaurant, similar to the abattoir-cum-restaurant that is St. John but without the braised squirrels and wolf’s intestines stuffed with lard [...]
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Baton down the hatches, tell your mother you won’t be back for a while and extend your bank overdraft…here comes the most hyped vintage ever, the juggernaut piled high with euros that is Bordeaux 2009!!! Already there are unconfirmed reports that it is the best vintage since 2008, unequivocally the greatest vintage of the 21st [...]
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More writing. I am on about 5,000 words per day, which is intense, but hey, that’s what I do. In the afternoon, Tomoko and I go to inspect at a house for sale in north Guildford that is very tempting. Beautiful interior, nice size rooms, lovely kitchen, decent garden…just in the wrong side of town [...]
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I work like a demon today, finishing off Willi Schaefer and then making in-roads into Weingut Dönnhoff, with Helmut’s son Cornelius imparting useful information by e-mail. In between all this I am organizing my horrendously busy, spaghetti-like Bordeaux itinerary. It is not the visits that take up so much time: it is the logistics of [...]
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March. So where the hell is spring then? Postponed until 2011 given the gang of cumuli nimbus that loiter above like bored teenagers. This week I have avowed to plough through a backlog of articles on a cluster of German visits/tasting that I made with David Wainwright last September, concentrating on Willi Schaefer (pictured), Helment [...]
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Today, the Met Centre have predicted storm-like conditions for the entire day, so I plan nothing and end up at the Mac finishing off my Willi Schaefer article for eRP. Lo and behold, by mid-afternoon there is a glimmer of sunshine. No wonder the UK population has lost faith in our weathermen…bring back Michael Fish. [...]
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