tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31407508175625880822024-03-18T21:16:49.690-07:00Queen of the Nogs(on a very long holiday in America)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140750817562588082.post-68529241432962467352012-07-22T22:21:00.002-07:002012-07-22T22:22:44.495-07:00RememberingOslo 22/7<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140750817562588082.post-28917611704068162042012-07-22T22:17:00.003-07:002012-07-22T22:23:55.943-07:00The first harvestThere have not been many news about the garden thus far. If I can only get hold of the pictures from Iain's laptop then I will upload some to show the progress that we have made with the overgrown patch that we took over earlier this year. Until then, enjoy a photo of our first roma tomatoes and peppers (anaheim and serrano).<br />
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A walk up Dalsnuten to fight the jetlag</div>
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Kilt and bunad</div>
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Iain feeling a little scared!</div>
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Scottish dog on Scottish beach! We're in Aberdeenshire!</div>
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Celebrating my 11 111th day of life!</div>
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Two weekends ago we took our bikes on the Amtrak and travelled an hour and a half towards the coast to Berkeley to see our previous neighbours Will & Minda and their cat Ky. Berkeley is lovely! It's very...<br />
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you can <i>cycle </i>everywhere (like in Davis)!</div>
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Just lovely! If there's any left where you live then go get the last few bottles now! Go! GO!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140750817562588082.post-17814073070729569172012-04-11T18:55:00.002-07:002012-04-11T18:55:33.829-07:00Happy Easter people!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a complicated relationship with Pinot Noir. I love the French style, light and smooth with taste of... Autumn? The American ones I like, but they tend to be too perfumed for me, too rose-flavoured (or I can't really describe what it is) and I rarely want more than a small glass. The good ones also tend to be expensive! That does not count for this bargain from Groce-Out costing only about a fiver.</div>
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Our plan to taste mystery wines and review them online never really turned into anything. So - next project (suggested by Iain) is to start a Groce-Out Wine Review section of my otherwise not so interesting blog. Ok - the story: There's a grocery shop in Davis (part of a chain) which is called <a href="http://groceryoutlet.com/">Grocery Outlet</a>. It sells discounted groceries and various household items that for various reasons have not sold well other places (for example the product was over stocked or there simply wasn't a market for it in the town or country where it was shipped to in the first place). Grocery Outlet, like other supermarkets, has a wine section and now we are getting to the point. The wine in Grocery Outlet is very often heavily reduced and presumably there are a million reasons why they end up in Grocery Outlet (and many of these reasons are not good reasons). Often, however, the wine is just about to reach its peak age and so has to be sold quickly. Some of these wines are excellent wines - it's all about identifying them and getting hold of them before they've been bought up by other people who share this wonderful secret with Iain and I... </div>
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The last six months we've decided to stay away from the wine that we know is going to be bad (enough with the experimenting!) and we've put a lot of effort into finding out what wines are in fact good value. We have come across a lot of delicious stuff, some by recommendation by other bloggers who have specialized in Groce-Out wine too (e.g. <a href="https://grossoutwine.wordpress.com/">https://grossoutwine.wordpress.com/</a>). These blogs have turned out quite popular, and the wines that receive favourable reviews are likely to be sold out in a matter of days. At the moment our fridge is full of Argentinian Torrontes, French Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley Barbera, Spanish Temperanillo... We have a lot of testing to do!!<br />
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The great thing about forgetting our anniversary was that I got a wonderful surprise upon arrival at home: flowers in a vase and Iain all dressed up in shirt and trousers ready to take me out to <a href="http://www.osteriafasulo.com/">Osteria Fasulo</a>. On top of all this I had only just submitted a paper and been out for ice cream with Bobell AND a whole box of books had arrived from <a href="http://betterworldbooks.com/">betterworldbooks.com</a>. When we got back from dinner the sky was clear and we went for a late night bath in the jacuzzi. Thank you, Iain (and California!) for an awesome day.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140750817562588082.post-7433061009255055252012-03-11T22:18:00.002-07:002012-03-11T22:21:40.483-07:00We're gardening!This sunny Sunday we have spent making our patio pretty for the summer. Iain has brushed every square inch of the floor and stamped (or burnt) over a hundred black widows! We have planted dozens of tomato seedlings (for the interest of the knowledgeable: gardener's delight, roma, supersweet 100, grape and early girl). Most of these will be transported to our newly acquired garden allotment on campus once they're ready and the rest we will try to grow on our patio or give away to friends. We have also planted marigold seeds, hot peppers, chives, sage, chocolate mint, oregano, parsley, spring onions, cilantro (aka coriander) and lavender. Basil is to come and we already have a grape vine, rosemary and a few flowers. This evening we harvested our sugarsnap peas and magetout which we had in a salad for dinner. Yum.<br />
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We have grand plans for our allotment that we're sharing with friends Alyssa and Mariam. So far we have planted peas and potatoes (although it may already be too late for them!), aspargus, lettuce, rocket salad and some other salady bits. Later we will grow peppers, strawberries, melons (if Iain can be convinced) and whatever else we can think of! The garden that our allotment is located in has a number of communal fruit trees, grape wines and lots of blackberries. We've done well and pictures will follow! For now, enjoy Iain's predictions regarding the future looks of mr garden plot!<br />
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I was looking through our photos from the past couple of months and suddenly came to reliase how we haven't shared our December bike trip around San Francisco and to the Marin headlands! We were in San Francisco for the weekend to see the National by the civic centre. It was a wonderful show - although we were shattered from all our adventures during the day. Our plan was to take the ferry over to Angel Island, cycle around the island and the hike to the top to enjoy the view of the city. The ferries are not very regular though and we missed our only chance to go across in the morning. So instead we cycled along the piers, past the Golden Gate Bridge, through Presideo Park, through Golden Gate park and then up through the city centre and to the civic centre. The weather was glorious and it was already December!!<br />
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The next day we packed some lunch, checked out of our Days Inn motel room and cycled back down to the piers and this time over the bridge. There we took a brief stop at the vista point before we cycled through a tunnel and down to the Marin Headlands to the left of the bridge. Weather was still sunny and beautiful and we cycled all the way to the beach where we had lunch before we took off past the missile base and all the way to the little light house. There we saw peregrine falcons and seals and lots of pelicans. Wildlife success! We took a tractor road back up it was terribly steep so we had to walk our bikes most of the way (also turns out hybrids don't like tractor roads!). We got to the vista point at the left of the bridge just as the sun was setting and it was the best of views (although getting a bit chilly!). Then we cycled back across the bridge and to the embarcadero where we caught the bus back to Emeryville from which we took the train to Davis.<br />
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Tiny light house on the edge of a cliff</div>
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I think it is years since I have celebrated fastelavn in the traditional way with creamy sweet buns and feathers fastened on pussy willows. This year I got the buns made, but felt no need to bring blossoming greens into the house as I only have to step out onto my patio to be surrounded by them! Spring comes early to California and my thoughts go to all of my friends and family back home who are currently snowed in... Much love!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140750817562588082.post-72524871527495879272012-02-08T19:43:00.001-08:002012-02-08T20:26:19.380-08:00Apologies...... to my mother and to Caroline and anyone else who might be visiting my blog on a somewhat regular basis. I have been very lazy and now I have so much to tell you all that I don't know where I start!<br />
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What we have done so far:<br />
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- we celebrated my 30th (!!) birthday in Calistoga, Napa Valley (!!!)<br />
- we celebrated Christmas in Atlanta with a chubby and very very friendly cat called Chuck<br />
- we built a kitty castillo (!) our of numerous amazon cardboard boxes for Kartika and Jason's cats that we cat sat<br />
- we ate a lot of cheese<br />
- we made a lot of bread<br />
- we threw a Burns' supper with genuine haggis (!!)<br />
- we drank a lot of good wine (and some not so good wine)<br />
- we cooked a lot of good food (and some not so good food)<br />
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... but most importantly: Iain bought me a kitchen machine for Christmas so nothing in the world can stop me now.<br />
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PS: this is Chuck - he is awesome.<br />
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looking into the fog...</div>
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Bonus piper.</div>
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