Ice cold in Alex

Well sadly I have not appeared in The Sunday Times rich list, ooops, sorry, The Sunday Times top 100 blogs here. That must be in part due to the delinquency I am demonstrating with my regular entries.

If its not work getting in the way (shurely not?....ed) then its the social distractions of Edinburgh which are responsible. I have been eating and drinking pretty well lately, and it has caused me to stumble upon one of those annoying restaurant habits which I think should be stamped out.

I tend to drink white wine when I am out, and a crisp nicely chilled Chablis usually fits the bill perfectly. Imagine then when I ask for it in a wine bucket, and a contraption more filling for flowers turns up at the table. I really can't understand why they try to indicate that this cooler thingie can begin to take the place of an ice bucket. If the wine is slightly warm then the cooler will maintain it at that temperature, and placing a few ice cubes in the bottom does not alter the effect.

So come on all you patrons who read this site, get those wine buckets in when next I visit, and dump the coolers round the corner at the florists.

Snow snow thick thick snow

Today it snowed with great vigor in the London conurbation, and sure enough the whole thing stopped. I don't have a problem with that as I had planned to work in London all week and not travel to Edinburgh.

With my surname I kind of have a feel for this sort of thing occurring.

It was interesting as I walked down the High Road to see that some house owners and shops had cleared the snow, and others had not. As I understand it, if you clear the snow and the postman slips and damages himself then you are liable for the injury, if you leave the snow to its own devices and he falls over its 'an act of God' and just tough! I always leave my snow untouched...

Turnham Green was like a scene from a Lowry painting, and I would post my photos but my phone has packed up, humbug. So if I find they are on my memory stick when I get a new phone I will post them later.


I also have some pictures of Chiswick Business Park I did manage to recover. I will post them later too. It will probably thaw later which is always the down side of the beauty which snow can bring to a grey city landscape.