Blogs I read.
Blogs I read.
Blogs I read.
Category: Service
Who is the best Poirot?
He is a social scientist of the human condition.
Who is the best Poirot? This question came up on Facebook, and I naturally took to the keyboard to answer. See below for further enlightenment. Facebook had a great many expressions of opinion on this question, and I am glad to see that. However, that is all they were. Blurted opinions. Below I start an argument with some criteria.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Seven
The final proof that rosé has come back is that it now figures both in the mid market recommendations of magazines and newspapers and in the down market advertisements from the bulk dealers like Dan Murphy in Australia.
The Stelvin top is here to stay, and hooray, I say, to that!
La vie en rosé – Chapter Six
“Think cork,” I said. Did you? If not, why not?
The Wikipedia needs help on rosé, and I am just the guy who can do it!
La vie en rosé – Chapter Five
I have paid as little as two Euros for a NoName wine at a gas station in France, and as much as $AUD 50 for a Bandol Tempier in Melbourne.
I found more rosés than I had time to drink at Dean and De Lucca’s in Georgetown. I vowed to return as soon as possible, Reader, to pursue knowledge for you.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Four
Emboldened, I went back to try another, not knowing when to quit, when do we learn that? Not soon enough in this case.
Dedicated as I am, I have also dared to try some “wines” that remind me that there are limits to my search for knowledge on your behalf, Reader.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Three.
“Pretty in Pink,” “Pink House,” “Arrogant Frog,” and others that I will not dignify by reference.
Is it cherry, strawberry, water melon, ruby grapefruit, or raspberry? Moi, je prefere raspberry.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Two
The French defined a “noble grape,” purely objectively, as one that produced a fine table wine without the need to blend in another grape. By sheer coincidence all the grapes grown in France were noble, while none grown in Spain and Italy were.
Wait! I hear the pedants among you, as is to be expected, quibbling.
La vie en rosé – Chapter One
There is, and always has been, more to rosé than Mateus.
In 2006 I gave myself an OOPS award.
Using the blog for teaching and research.
I replied to the questions in a recording which is attached
I had an inquiry from a research centre on campus about the use of the blog for teaching and research.
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