As reported on 7th December, the festal booze campaign opened with 15 miniatures. This was later topped up with 3 more from a little Tesco and 3 more from a big Costcutter, taking the total to 21. One or two full size bottles got in through the back door which slowed consumption of the intended stuff, but we are now down to the 14 seen left. An entertaining way to do things, so next year I will have to make a special effort to source interesting miniatures. Will Vinopolis being any good at this sort of thing? Or maybe Hedonism Wines (http://hedonism.co.uk/) where, according to their web site they do do wine at under £30 a bottle (around my upper limit, and only then for very special occasions) but you can quite quickly find bottles at more than £4,000 and according to the Guardian you can spend £16,000. I am not sure that I approve of people spending that sort of money on a bottle: I dare say the money gets recycled through the lower orders at some point but it does seem to reflect a lot of capital tied up in unnecessary luxury goods, capital which might be used for something of wider application. See 23rd December for a short discussion about a related issue.
Back in the garden, sharp frost this morning with a very white extension roof. Redwings back in force, but more scattered, having more or less done the fire thorn and the large old apple trees next door are now a popular perch. Also a number of the green parakeets down from Ham which have taken to the few apples remaining on tree. Who are they competing for ecospace with?
Our off tree apples in the garage are doing well, helped along by their having been picked from the tree rather than from off the ground, with only a few getting the brown rot. But how many of them will we get through before the brown rot does get going? We are doing maybe a dozen a week but there must be several hundred of them - so we are not going to get to the end in time.
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