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danieldwilliam) wrote2024-06-17 11:41 am
danieldwilliam) wrote2024-06-17 11:41 am
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On A Weekend of Delights of Food and Drink and Sporting Disaster.
The Captain was busily engaged with his own social life this weekend (watching Scotland vs Germany with his mates on Friday and a birthday sleep over on Saturday) so MLW and I set out to enjoy some food and drink in each other's company.
Friday to the local wine bar for post work drink before some fish and chips on the way home. I watched the Scotland Germany game. MLW did something else. The wine bar is a sort of deli come cafe come wine merchant come wine bar in the evenings. It has some nice wine. It is the closest licenced premise to the flat. We basically popped to the local for drink and a chat.
The football was poor. Scotland were so far from the sort of performance that has become common that I think either there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the camp or else Germany are nailed on winners. Or both.
Saturday the Captain headed off to his pal's birthday and MLW and I headed to Leith to visit the Port of Leith Distillery. This is Edinburgh's third new distillery since 2019 for a tour and some food.
https://crabbiewhisky.com/bonnington-distillery/
https://holyrooddistillery.co.uk/
https://www.leithdistillery.com/
The tour was interesting. The building is 8 floor or 40m tall and sits right on the waterfront in Leith harbour, right next to the Royal Yacht Britannia. Britannia has about half a million visitors a year and the tram stops about 2 minutes away. I well understand why the owners built a tall narrow building there rather than a more standard building anywhere else in Edinburgh . Port of Leith, like Holyrood are experimenting with different barley and yeasts. Partly because the owners of both find it interesting and partly because, if you don't have 200 year's of quaint history to help sell your whisky you need to do something interesting. Not sure that the verticality of the distillery does anything interesting but the building is really striking both inside and out. Fantastic views from the bar on the 8th floor. Nice food in the restaurant. Nice drinks.
They don't actually have any whisky yet as they only started producing spirit in January. However, they are owned by one of Scotland's largest independent gin distillers and the bar and tours will probably keep them cashflow positive for a while.
Home after a dinner of bits and pieces.
We got home pretty early on Saturday evening as MLW was singing on Sunday.
Folks may have seen some coverage of the Church of Scotland's property sell off. MLW is right in the middle of that as one of the churches being merged is the one the she sings at.
Caught up on the cricket to discover that England had beaten Oman by scoring about 40 runs with a single hit of the ball and that despite rain they had also beaten Namibia. Scotland had lost to Australia by 2 runs and were out of the T20 World Cup. Which is a shame but not unexpected.
Sunday was Father's Day. The Captain and I laboured like Trojans to re-organise the kitchen, disposing of a variety of thing that we don't use e.g. two of the three sets of small bowls on a tray for serving nibbles. spoike to Bluebird about her new house and the sort of leaks you create when you drill through an unexpected water pipe. Then the Captain, MLW and I we went to Harajuku Kitchen for an early dinner of delicious Japanese food before two of us went round to my dad's to watch the England game which was tense and gave me the opportunity to explore once again with the Captain the intersection of football and politics.
Lovely food and drink. Less awesome sports.
Friday to the local wine bar for post work drink before some fish and chips on the way home. I watched the Scotland Germany game. MLW did something else. The wine bar is a sort of deli come cafe come wine merchant come wine bar in the evenings. It has some nice wine. It is the closest licenced premise to the flat. We basically popped to the local for drink and a chat.
The football was poor. Scotland were so far from the sort of performance that has become common that I think either there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the camp or else Germany are nailed on winners. Or both.
Saturday the Captain headed off to his pal's birthday and MLW and I headed to Leith to visit the Port of Leith Distillery. This is Edinburgh's third new distillery since 2019 for a tour and some food.
https://crabbiewhisky.com/bonnington-distillery/
https://holyrooddistillery.co.uk/
https://www.leithdistillery.com/
The tour was interesting. The building is 8 floor or 40m tall and sits right on the waterfront in Leith harbour, right next to the Royal Yacht Britannia. Britannia has about half a million visitors a year and the tram stops about 2 minutes away. I well understand why the owners built a tall narrow building there rather than a more standard building anywhere else in Edinburgh . Port of Leith, like Holyrood are experimenting with different barley and yeasts. Partly because the owners of both find it interesting and partly because, if you don't have 200 year's of quaint history to help sell your whisky you need to do something interesting. Not sure that the verticality of the distillery does anything interesting but the building is really striking both inside and out. Fantastic views from the bar on the 8th floor. Nice food in the restaurant. Nice drinks.
They don't actually have any whisky yet as they only started producing spirit in January. However, they are owned by one of Scotland's largest independent gin distillers and the bar and tours will probably keep them cashflow positive for a while.
Home after a dinner of bits and pieces.
We got home pretty early on Saturday evening as MLW was singing on Sunday.
Folks may have seen some coverage of the Church of Scotland's property sell off. MLW is right in the middle of that as one of the churches being merged is the one the she sings at.
Caught up on the cricket to discover that England had beaten Oman by scoring about 40 runs with a single hit of the ball and that despite rain they had also beaten Namibia. Scotland had lost to Australia by 2 runs and were out of the T20 World Cup. Which is a shame but not unexpected.
Sunday was Father's Day. The Captain and I laboured like Trojans to re-organise the kitchen, disposing of a variety of thing that we don't use e.g. two of the three sets of small bowls on a tray for serving nibbles. spoike to Bluebird about her new house and the sort of leaks you create when you drill through an unexpected water pipe. Then the Captain, MLW and I we went to Harajuku Kitchen for an early dinner of delicious Japanese food before two of us went round to my dad's to watch the England game which was tense and gave me the opportunity to explore once again with the Captain the intersection of football and politics.
Lovely food and drink. Less awesome sports.
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https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/about-us/property-and-church-buildings/properties-for-sale
but I don't think it includes churches which are in the process of being merged.
The Methodist chappel in my mum's village in Cornwall was fundamentally unsaleable because it was listed.
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Edit - just found this quote: "In 1982 the Church of Scotland had nearly 920,000 members; last year, that stood at 270,300, a decline of 70%. The average age of its congregants is now 62, and only 60,000 worship in person."
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