Two of our snails have been jiggy with it for the past couple of hours today. Rock on, sweet, sweet hermaphrodite gastropod mollusc lovin’.
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Channelling Scrooge
Spent my morning counting pennies, er, francs. We were far off the mark in our guesstimate of 2k but there was still a very respectable 1,111.25 CHF in the pot. Tattoo money :D
World gin day
How did I not know that today is world gin day?? Madness. I shall have to put it in my calendar for next year.
First-world problem
Running out of bar storage space.
The horror… The horror…
Festival du rosé de Morges
Daddy, you need to buy one of those bottles
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So we did. And a few more.
I need to buy a wine cave.
Modern music dissected
Click to embiggenGoing to be a doozy of a storm
The light outside has gone completely sepia. We can hear thunder rumbling in the distance. Going to be a nice evening.
The green fairly was in Morges
Bean tried absinthe. Scary part? He liked it.
[recipe] Watermelon lemonade
ingredients
8 cups 1-inch cubes of seedless watermelon (from about a 4 1/2 pound watermelon)
1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (roughly 8 lemons)
3 1/2 cups water
1 cup granulated white sugar
for serving: ice cubes or frozen watermelon cubes
lemon wedges/watermelon wedges for garnish
directions
working in 2 batches, blend watermelon and lemon juice in food processor or blender until smooth. pass through a wire sieve to remove any thick pulp/seeds. transfer to pitcher.
bring 3 1/2 cups water and sugar to boil in medium saucepan over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. add hot syrup to pitcher with watermelon-lemon juice. refrigerate until cold, about 2 hours.
fill glasses with ice (or frozen watermelon cubes). pour watermelon lemonade over and garnish glasses with lemon wedges.
This wins the Internet for today
As a colleague said earlier today, now is a good time to find a nice country with no extradition treaty with the US. Interestingly, both Russia and Qatar qualify, as do several African countries. Just sayin…