A Party and Some Wine!
Since the weather has been rather well, bad...we have been toodling around looking for interesting indoor haunts. We happened on this winery near Staple, Kent. Two brothers operate it and the winery has won some awards. We had a taste or two and were able to ask many questions like his opinion on plastic vs. cork (likes plastic), tetra pak vs. glass (tetra can't sterilize economically), pesticides vs. organic, English wine availability in the shops (more expensive and people go for the cheaper stuff from France and beyond - a bottle of English wine sells for about £5 and you can get a decent bottle of wine from France for £3 (ie) Little Penguin from Australia is selling for £3 at the moment). 
We had a cake - DB turned 45! All who know DB will appreciate the fact that he "pleased himself" yesterday and did what he wanted to do. The weather was lousy but he managed to go birding and play guitar (he's got an electric guitar loaner with amp from a friend). Strangely enough, he said he doesn't often get a chance to "do what he wants to do"!...So, the cake. Our Kind Hostess made the base - a Victoria Sponge base don't you know -, I made the butter icing and J-Rock made the design of the moth. It had a marzipan (pronounced mar-zee-pan over here) body. DB received wishes from near and far including a debut issue of Hello! magazine from the Freeholders - get yours now it features the Trudeau kids and the latest on Paul and Heather.
posted by KT @ 12:41 PM
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I can't resist a comment re. wine and being born in 1961 -- such an excellent year!! For both wine, and being born I mean. If you can get a hold of a 1961 bottle of wine it WAS a very good year, although I can't say I fully appreciated it when I was offered some to drink. I just look at the picture on the bottle -- butterflies are nice, and I usually buy those again. Speaking of food containers decorated with b.f.s, DB will HAVE to come to our house and tell Marc it's o.k. to drink coffee out of the mugs not just with the b.f.s, but with the moths (which Marc avoids). My this is a windy entry!! Congratulations on the BIRTHDAY (I won't say B-day, that's a confusing word to use 'overseas'), and as usual such interesting detail included. Great cake! good job J-rock et al. M on the M
How else would you pronounce marzipan? Mar-zed-pan? ho ho
I pronounce it mar-zah-pan without so much of the eee in the middle...!
I go heavy on the 'eee' personally...but that's because I come from Fannet.
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