Happy new year
First the resolutions:
- Blog.
- Drink more wine than beer.
- Paint the kitchen, and other home improvements.
First, I plan to blog and take control of my online identity — or rather establish some sort of online identity. Indeed, I feel some debt to all those blogs I read. I sponge quite a bit of help from bloggers who have kindly posted solutions to problems, as so I feel I should do the same.
Second, I’m becoming increasingly jealous of people who are in control of their wine palate. I find it too difficult to describe what my palate senses when tasting wine; so, this year I plan to develop mine. I started last night and surprised myself by divining apricot in a Del Rios Marsanne. “I smell apricot”, I asserted on giving the wine a sniff. I grabbed a nearby jar of apricot jam and confirmed that it was indeed so. A taste of the wine detected further apricot flavours. When we looked up Marsanne on the Web, we found that it was noted for apricot flavours. I’m off to a good start then.
Third, well over a year ago I washed down the kitchen walls in order to paint that room. It was quite hard work because the ceiling was crusted in mould. Now we don’t have the mould, but the kitchen is still a depressing blue-grey, with a peeling ceiling.
