St Valentine's Day
Feb. 16th, 2006 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningOthers have told all the exciting things they got up to on St Valentine’s Day; and those lacking a sense of romance have told us what they haven’t done.
There were five very good whiskies, but three really stood out (though clearly they were in the majority, perhaps the other two stepped back)
In the middle, we ate a lovely fish stew.
One down point: we didn’t get seconds!
And then we got a cab home (the second easiest fare of the night).
* 5.17
** 7.28
***114.4
- I gave my wife a couple of videos – Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” and its sequel (several years later), “Before Sunset” – I saw the first (and loved it), but we managed to miss the latter when it came out last year (largely because we failed to see a single cinema release last year..)
- I had previously given her the new version of Pride and Prejudice – yeah, not that I like Keira Knightley – just in case she gave it to me (Amazon got it to me more or less on release date, but I reckoned my wife might see it in Tesco’s, and buy it!)
- she gave me Amelie (which we saw together)
- I got my wife some flowers: white roses and blue iris, which I ordered at great cost from our monopolistic florist at work
- my wife got me some flowers – white roses and blue iris, which she saw on offer in Tesco’s
- we walked up the hill
- after fifty yards, my wife decided that she couldn’t walk in her high heels and we just had to get a taxi up the hill
- the taxi driver got his easiest fare of the night
- we went to a St Valentine’s night tasting at the Scottish Malt Whisky Society
There were five very good whiskies, but three really stood out (though clearly they were in the majority, perhaps the other two stepped back)
- a 20 year Auchentenoshan* – “monkey blood on vanilla ice cream” – (monkey blood being the given name for the raspberry sauce poured over ice cream), which was delicious
- a 35 year Longmore** – “candyfloss and fireworks” – a really rich, powerful Speyside, really excellent, full of rich flavours
- and a 14 year Longrow*** – “Para Handy tales” – a peated Springbank, which tasted almost like an Islay, a lovely dram to finish the evening.
In the middle, we ate a lovely fish stew.
One down point: we didn’t get seconds!
And then we got a cab home (the second easiest fare of the night).
* 5.17
** 7.28
***114.4