Nerdy and Whisky

Posted on 2007/07/11 19:35:37 (July 2007).

[Saturday 7th July]
Chie went out shopping with a friend of hers for most of the day today, and apparently my presence was not obligatory, so I took the opportunity to just have a peaceful day in instead.

What with having been pretty nose-to-the-grindstone at work over the past few weeks, I haven't really been in the mood for doing anything excessively computery at home recently. Today though I thought I'd buck that trend and spend a bit of time working on cheese, laying some of the foundations for the GPS tagging feature I want to put in there. Yea I know, there are a load of other pieces of software which apparently support this feature (and for the record, Photo Studio was one of the very first of these) but none of them really seem to work properly, so as every I'm resorting to writing my own. I've had my Sony GPS receiver for over two months now, and still haven't really used it to properly geotag any photos. Alas, it seems quite a lot more work is required on this, so I doubt I'll be unveiling the all new GPS-tastic John's Pictures any time soon.

I did pop out for a bit towards the end of the afternoon - I had a sudden craving for Laphroaig - and after a quick consulation on the web for a decent whisky shop in London, I found the Whisky Exchange (a mail order company I'd bought whisky from in the past) now had a shop in central London. It was at Vinopolis - a sort of wine based theme park (?!?) I'd been to once a few years ago, although the whisky shop had opened there since then. It turned out to be a pretty good shop, and I bought a couple of bottles in the end - one small Douglas Laing Port Ellen sample (a 20CL bottle), and a cask strength Laphroaig. The Port Ellen was actually a little uninteresting (as is often the way - I've still not found another one anywhere near that legendary Fortnum and Mason bottle) but the Laphroaig was quite fantastic - I guess I'd just forgotten how good this stuff is.

Chie and I arrived back at the flat around the same time, and following a period of negotiation we decided to have bangers and mash for dinner - and despite this being an intrinsically English sort of meal, Chie decided she wanted to cook. I have to admit it makes me mildly insecure that she actually makes English food very well indeed.

We then spent the remainder of the evening watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Chie had asked to watch it after having been to see Spamalot a few weeks ago. Chie did chuckle a bit now and again, but predictably I don't think it was really her cup of tea - ho, hum.

Monty Pyton is quite hard for foreigners, it took me a great deal of effort to understand it, you have to really enter British culture to appreciate it at full. Fortunately thanks to you guys at the house I feel that I managed to get a fair deal of proper English Culture, hence I like MP now! :D

Posted by Lox at 2007/07/12 07:09:49.

It isn't compulsory to like Monty Pythonalot, you know, even if you are a dyed-in-the-wool Englishman or woman. I don't really. I don't even fall over laughing at the dead parrot sketch, but I the chaps in other things.

Posted by John's Mum at 2007/07/12 17:55:34.

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