Bubble Brothers - Cork wine merchants
Thursday, March 01, 2007
A sparkling occasion - the Irish Blog Awards
If you want something doing, ask a busy man, they say. Well we at Bubble Brothers are the 1er cru classé of busy, or thereabouts, at the moment and yes I did leave relabelling the champagne for the Irish Blog Awards till the last impossible minute. Simply because there has been so much more work than time lately.
So numero uno, thank you, Damien Mulley, for not having a perfectly justifiable cow in response to my procrastinations.
And numero uno (part the second), thank you, Hugh Macleod, for so generously allowing me to use one of yer excellent cartoons to conceal my patent lack of design inspiration when the heat was on.
And numero uno, part III: The Return of the Kings, thank you, Billy Forrester and Cyril Besnard of Bubble Brothers, for staying late at the end of what was already a very long day for you both, to help me out of trouble.
Anyway, we got there in the end in a James Bond-ishly 23:59:59 kind of way; and if you're lucky enough to get your hands on one, I hope you like the look of the bottle.
I'm off on holiday tomorrow for a week, so it's over to the other contributors for the duration. Y'all have fun at the Awards, d'y'hear me now?
So numero uno, thank you, Damien Mulley, for not having a perfectly justifiable cow in response to my procrastinations.
And numero uno (part the second), thank you, Hugh Macleod, for so generously allowing me to use one of yer excellent cartoons to conceal my patent lack of design inspiration when the heat was on.
And numero uno, part III: The Return of the Kings, thank you, Billy Forrester and Cyril Besnard of Bubble Brothers, for staying late at the end of what was already a very long day for you both, to help me out of trouble.
Anyway, we got there in the end in a James Bond-ishly 23:59:59 kind of way; and if you're lucky enough to get your hands on one, I hope you like the look of the bottle.
I'm off on holiday tomorrow for a week, so it's over to the other contributors for the duration. Y'all have fun at the Awards, d'y'hear me now?
Labels: champagne, irish blog awards
¶ Thursday, March 01, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Swordsmanship
Here's a lazy link to videos of people attempting sabrage, which is opening your champagne with a sabre - or other blade. I haven't looked at the clips yet, but they could prove a refreshing accompaniment to your next tea-break &c. If you're inspired to try it, at least I've given you enough time to practise before next New Year's Eve. Also plenty of time to hire an appropriately magnificent military uniform if you're going for the sabre option. No point in doing something so ludicrously ostentatious unless you're going to go the whole hog.
¶ Monday, January 22, 2007
Thursday, December 21, 2006
TV Dinners
Absolutely up the walls here with last-minute orders and deliveries, but anyway, the blog must go on...
Although Nigella Lawson's schmaltz'n'syrup cocktail gives me indigestion, I tell myself she's only doing it for the camera/money and try to see through that. The other week when she cooked ribs &c. I felt that underneath all the good housekeeping stuff there was a soul food cook. You go girl. Then on last night's show, the Christmas dinner, somebody decided to put the dynamic, the soulful Mr Lou Rawls on the soundtrack, which made me very happy: his bacon grease'n'molasses cocktail doesn't give me indigestion.
Jas'n'Oz, the Abbott and Costello of British wine TV, did Champagne, which was interesting for the Bubble Brothers, and in the end, when they said au revoir, it was all about friendships and personalities and the human angle generally. Proper order.
Although Nigella Lawson's schmaltz'n'syrup cocktail gives me indigestion, I tell myself she's only doing it for the camera/money and try to see through that. The other week when she cooked ribs &c. I felt that underneath all the good housekeeping stuff there was a soul food cook. You go girl. Then on last night's show, the Christmas dinner, somebody decided to put the dynamic, the soulful Mr Lou Rawls on the soundtrack, which made me very happy: his bacon grease'n'molasses cocktail doesn't give me indigestion.
Jas'n'Oz, the Abbott and Costello of British wine TV, did Champagne, which was interesting for the Bubble Brothers, and in the end, when they said au revoir, it was all about friendships and personalities and the human angle generally. Proper order.
Labels: champagne, christmas, soul, tv
¶ Thursday, December 21, 2006
