I tell you, if we're not dodging quakes we're shovelling snow! It is thristy work make no mistake.
So, in a nod to our recent weather...let's make a Snowball!
Get yourself (and me) a high ball glass, put 1 and a half ounces of Advocaat into the glass over ice and carefully top up with lemonade.
Let the snow fight begin...I warn you tho' I have called in some top class assistance this week (and yes, this is a photo taken in our yard Monday night)...see....
Having just experienced our first good shake in our new premises, I think it's time for a drink!
I'm keeping it very simple today...head to the local wine shop and see if you can find a bottle of Pinot Noir. I recommend John Henry Hudson from Martinborough, in our North Island. It is quite 'beefy' for a Pinot Noir and plays well with others!
I had to take my car for a warrant yesterday, the guy said it would take half an hour so I grabbed my camera and went for a walk while he toiled away under my bonnet and spun my wheels. The garage where all this activity was happening is only a block away from my old workplace, and here are two photos which took my fancy....
This one... well, the colours!! I adore autumn colours and we have so many of these beautiful trees swapping their summer duds for rust and orange, red and brown. Plus the sparrows as you can see are taking full advantage of the fact that there are hardly any cars on the streets at the moment...
Now remember when the kids were young and you would read them stories, one of the favourites for my two girls was the Crooked Man story...you know, not the kiddie fiddlers or the naughty bankers of todays folk-lore but the genuine crooked man who had a crooked leg and lived in a crooked house - I found his house!
I wonder how it is still standing, the angles must be just right or something when you consider the initial earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks. They just don't build houses like they used to.
I've been away, scouting about the bars of another city! (No really, I've been away with WORK. But of course, you guessed that.)
Still, no time like the present to relieve one's thirst, I always say.
Rhett Butler
30ml orange curacao 30ml Southern Comfort 15ml fresh lemon juice 15ml fresh lime juice ice soda water
Pour curacao, Southern Comfort, juices and ice into a shaker...shaaaaaake, then pour into a highball glass. Top with soda water. Garnish with an orange slice and mint leaves.
Guaranteed to make you not give a damn, my dears.If you want to relive a real "Gone with the wind" experience, have this with onion rings.
