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@donalde.bsky.social
sommelier. nascent vigneron. don’t try and pinch my phone.
Bonus. Some of Mehmet 11’s cannons from the siege of Constantinople.
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Bonus. Some of Mehmet 11’s cannons from the siege of Constantinople.
Jude having all sorts of fun at the drying station (his sister looking on a trifle embarrassed for him)
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jude having all sorts of fun at the drying station (his sister looking on a trifle embarrassed for him)
Doris Lessing had thoughts about the English colony in Rhodesia.
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Doris Lessing had thoughts about the English colony in Rhodesia.
Accidentally made quite a large leftover roast pork and celeriac rémoulade sandwich.
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Accidentally made quite a large leftover roast pork and celeriac rémoulade sandwich.
Just doing a bit of research about a wine we sell and came across the Gibbet of Montfaucon, and, lets say I understand why the French revolution took place 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
![The English travel writer Thomas Coryat saw it at about the same time and described it as "the fairest gallows that I ever saw, built on a little hillocke ... [with] fourteen pillars of free stone".[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wbkov42yk3odqsox4lmzuvtj/bafkreidshca3sixhhlhajdhfjacs7suieh3yk5n4dstldsrmvuz66mm4ge@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just doing a bit of research about a wine we sell and came across the Gibbet of Montfaucon, and, lets say I understand why the French revolution took place 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
Roasted some pork loin to have with white beans and cavolo nero. Was a very excellent dinner last night.
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Roasted some pork loin to have with white beans and cavolo nero. Was a very excellent dinner last night.
The hilarious response from the old gm, neglecting to mention that as an act of spite he trademarked the name after he was evicted for non payment of rent…
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The hilarious response from the old gm, neglecting to mention that as an act of spite he trademarked the name after he was evicted for non payment of rent…
![Family links to historical slavery
A 2020 investigation by The Guardian found that Richard Drax still owns and grows sugar on the same Drax Hall Estate in Barbados that made the family's fortune. Over 200 years, 30,000 slaves died at this and the other Drax plantations, according to Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of CARICOM's Reparations Commission, who has said: "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other."[36]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wbkov42yk3odqsox4lmzuvtj/bafkreie3kqgcciun7aow5uxgoygaaha2qaejhs2tcvh6qo4f6zsctz6vme@jpeg)
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.
@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
Ridic excited to have seen the Heraki and Yaban Kollektiv wines landed and on the Nora site. Super proud of the wine list I’ve written for them.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Ridic excited to have seen the Heraki and Yaban Kollektiv wines landed and on the Nora site. Super proud of the wine list I’ve written for them.
Best recent big reads.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Best recent big reads.
@dannybate.bsky.social Umberto Eco riffing on early writing 😅
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@dannybate.bsky.social Umberto Eco riffing on early writing 😅
Really enjoyed A line you draw from @roisinmcd.bsky.social, I particularly enjoyed way she plays with time travel paradox conventions in a sort of found matrilineal way.
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Really enjoyed A line you draw from @roisinmcd.bsky.social, I particularly enjoyed way she plays with time travel paradox conventions in a sort of found matrilineal way.
This is Harry Potter. He plays rugby (very well, too well maybe) for the Wallabies. He was born in Wimbledon which is about 20 mins from Surrey where the Weasley's canonically lived. He was born in 1997. OOI what was published in 1997?!?
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is Harry Potter. He plays rugby (very well, too well maybe) for the Wallabies. He was born in Wimbledon which is about 20 mins from Surrey where the Weasley's canonically lived. He was born in 1997. OOI what was published in 1997?!?
Quote your favourite film and album from the year you were born.
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Quote your favourite film and album from the year you were born.
From the Old Truronian newsletter
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
From the Old Truronian newsletter
This little idiot disappeared today. I don’t know how. Can only guess he fell from the balcony. Have scoured gardens locally. Distraught. He was as close to a perfect cat as I’ve even know.
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This little idiot disappeared today. I don’t know how. Can only guess he fell from the balcony. Have scoured gardens locally. Distraught. He was as close to a perfect cat as I’ve even know.
Vertical Fernet tasting.
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Vertical Fernet tasting.
Working out what we want to offer for the contents. Am particularly excited about the vintage fernet branca 😀
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Working out what we want to offer for the contents. Am particularly excited about the vintage fernet branca 😀
