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09 Oct 2015

Grapes of wrath – The resurgence of English Vineyards and Wine

English vineyards are making something of a resurgence now. Their major issue is the size of most vineyards being so small that wine amounts tend to be too small from most vineyards to be commercially sold to supermarket chains. A few years ago, one of the best UK vineyards, Three Choirs , in fact sold their whole annual wine crop to Eurostar, meaning that the only way to taste the wine was to have a 187ml bottle on the train.

Denbies vineyard is in Dorking and Painshill is a park in Cobham with a vineyard as part of the park. A few photographs to tempt you to sample English wine.

Painshill Park Cobham Grapes

Denbies is a wine estate or perhaps better termed, vineyard in Dorking, surrey established in 1986.The vineyards of Denbies Estate are situated on the North Downs with its famous chalky soil, in a protected valley of south facing slopes. In size it is the largest in the UK with 627 acres of land of which 265 acres have been planted representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. This makes it three times the size of any other in the UK and the largest independent vineyard in Europe. Around 65% of the wine is sold at the visitor centre. From a good harvest around 400,000 bottles can be produced of different types from the 18 varieties of grape grown. The main grapes grown include : seyval blanc, reichensteiner, Muller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Ortega, Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Dornfelder.

Painshill Park Cobham Grapes

Denbies Vineyard. Dorking

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04 Oct 2015

Favourite Football Photos of this weekend

Carshalton AFC Juggling

Chasing Shadows

Leighton Town FC
Two headed monster

Almost a goal but not quite. Carshalton v leighton

Sam Muzarek

Hand ball

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27 Sep 2015

The Last Redcurrants of 2015 from UK

One single plant has produced around £100 worth of redcurrants this year. I was somewhat amazed to find a few more the other day at the tail end of September. Tasted amazing. Thoroughly recommend a redcurrant plant for 2016.

Redcurrants from surrey

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22 Sep 2015

Unusual Food Items and Meals in Photographs.

Food makes an easy thing to photograph and these humble photos are taken only with the I Phone camera but nevertheless a few interesting images of more unusual food items. Ranging from Haggis crisps to a Hedgehog birthday cake.

Haggis crisps

Smoked Ham and Cornichon sandwich

Blueberries and Vanilla Yoghurt

Hedgehog Cake

Hedgehog Cake

Salami Sandwich at Dusseldorf airport

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22 Sep 2015

What Vegetarian Dish is this? A quiz. Common UK vegetarian mixture.

Vegetarian Mixture. But what is it?

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13 Sep 2015

Amsterdam Food. A Photographic Memory

The Best omellete in Amsterdam

Coffee in Amsterdam

Make your own Magnum. Amsterdam

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11 Sep 2015

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Amsterdam- City of Curious Things and Curious People

Most people are aware of Amsterdam as a great city to have fun and observe life and people. Behind the obvious sights there lies a whole host of strange things and people, and some cute things as well. Amsterdam has the ability to both shock and enlighten. Walking down a city centre street I am not sure what shocked me the most, that a haircut coild cost 45 euros or that someone had written a book titled ” The Philosophy of Beards”. True that maybe a bottle of nice mexican beer came free too.

In Vondelspark a strange gentleman with a horse’s head was playing what I imagine was some sort of tambourine. I use the term playing lightly. He was making a kind of repetitive banging noise which only seemed to stop when we was given money, so I consider this a good cause to donate a euro too. Plus no scowling when I took his photograph.

There are many shops including a number that sell whole cheeses in sizes that must make an interesting hand luggage size. Shops where they close and put up nice signs such as ” we are sorry we are closing and will not be in your palate for a few days” instead of handwritten closed signs. Pizza restaurants where they say ” no cash” rather different from the UK sunday curry buffets where its cash only. I wonder why. Beer that is actually cold with glasses kept in the freezer. Coffee that not only tastes good but looks good and can be drunk by a canal watching boats and people go by. A shop where you can make your own Magnum, at a price though around 4 euros. Maybe the best omelette I have ever tasted. From an Irish Pub actually next to the Paradiso.

The Best omellete in Amsterdam

Musician with a Horse Head.

Not entirely sure that words can describe this?
Vondelspark man.

Coffee in Amsterdam

Awful gifts Amsterdam

Fake Tulips

awful Hat Amsterdam

Batman returns to amsterdam

Where is the last pair?

Batman returns to amsterdam

Make your own Magnum. Amsterdam

Boat trips on the canals Amsterdam

Aloe Vera

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24 Aug 2015

Photographs of Food. Are you really not hungry?

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28 Jun 2015

Nice Food Photographs

Garlic pizza bread. A nice starter

Chicken with asparagus and peppercorn sauce. Courgettes and oven potatoes.

Tiramisu

Apple Crumble. The Italian version.

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04 Apr 2015

Slovenia and Food

Many aspects of Slovenian food are not unlike good quality British or American food.In 2006, the leading Slovenian ethnologists have divided the country into 23 gastronomic regions. Breakfasts tend to be a mixture of fresh fruit, cold meats and cooked eggs. The quality is exceptionally high. The first Slovene-language cookbook was published by Valentin Vodnik in 1799 and I am not planning the second. A few more curious ingredients it seems also, such as Dandelion being popular in salads, and soups it seems are quite a new invention in Slovenia although they now have around 150, enough for most.

There are however a few more unique aspects to their food. For example a very thin crispy pizza served as a starter, with toppings in different lines of pizza being different. Works well as a starter but a temptation to eat rather more than one might want to. Many countries seem to bring their own cultures and influences. The provision of an extra course of cold meats and cheese after a starter with ample bread also suggests not a UK tradition!

There are however some strange traditions here, like giving cups of coffee seemingly only half full even when one asks for a traditional large Americano! As Slovenia borders Italy and is not actually a million miles from Venice, there are some Italian influences in addition to pizza and ice cream. Roasted potatoes are simple and ample portions. Pork cordon bleu is almost German in its origin.