Yay!
My wine arrived
I went a bit mad and ordered a case of wine from Virgin wines, since I figured if I'm going to pay 5 a bottle in the supermarket (fairly standard) anyway, I may as well choose stuff I think I'm going to like and get it delivered.
They also give you a list of tasting notes for each bottle, so you can pretend you know what you're talking about when you drink it....unaided, I can just about tell "red" from "white".
Most of it's fairly cheapy stuff, but I threw in a bottle of chateuneuf du pape on the grounds that I've never tried it - wayyyy to expensive to drink in restaurants. I like strong fairly heavy reds so I'm looking forward to trying it.
Now all I need is someone to drink it with
Later...
Just came back from my run (absolutely shattered...thanks for asking) and was musing about the exercise they used to make us do in high school. We had a thing called the school mile, which basically involved running around the block, which they made everyone do once a week.
For the kids who were fit anyway, the distance was trivial, and for the ones who weren't it was a mind-numbing, heart-burning nightmare, which can't have significantly added to our fitness level and served only to humiliate and put us off exercise for the rest of our lives.
I can honestly say I never once voluntarily did something for the sake of exercise the entire time I was in high school (ok, a little jiu jitsu). Yet, as soon as I left and went to college, when no-one was forcing me any more, I started going to the gym 3 times a week and training aikido whenever I could.
I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it run. No, wait, yes you can....um....never mind.
My wine arrived
I went a bit mad and ordered a case of wine from Virgin wines, since I figured if I'm going to pay 5 a bottle in the supermarket (fairly standard) anyway, I may as well choose stuff I think I'm going to like and get it delivered.
They also give you a list of tasting notes for each bottle, so you can pretend you know what you're talking about when you drink it....unaided, I can just about tell "red" from "white".
Most of it's fairly cheapy stuff, but I threw in a bottle of chateuneuf du pape on the grounds that I've never tried it - wayyyy to expensive to drink in restaurants. I like strong fairly heavy reds so I'm looking forward to trying it.
Now all I need is someone to drink it with
Later...
Just came back from my run (absolutely shattered...thanks for asking
) and was musing about the exercise they used to make us do in high school. We had a thing called the school mile, which basically involved running around the block, which they made everyone do once a week.
For the kids who were fit anyway, the distance was trivial, and for the ones who weren't it was a mind-numbing, heart-burning nightmare, which can't have significantly added to our fitness level and served only to humiliate and put us off exercise for the rest of our lives.
I can honestly say I never once voluntarily did something for the sake of exercise the entire time I was in high school (ok, a little jiu jitsu). Yet, as soon as I left and went to college, when no-one was forcing me any more, I started going to the gym 3 times a week and training aikido whenever I could.
I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it run. No, wait, yes you can....um....never mind.