Friday evening and starting to relax after a couple of busy days.
Wednesday night I called on my neighbour, Mike , of A & R Technology, who, treated me to my "New Year" drink, a wee dram !! We then tried a German Whisky which did not really impress - however, we did have a "look" at a bottle of a single malt " Spirit of Loch Ewe", produced by the Loch Ewe Distillery, (Drumchork Lodge Hotel), Aultbea, Wester Ross, which is now the smallest distillery in Scotland, and the only distillery producing illicit style whisky using an ancient method. Mike had a miniature bottle, which was whisky, only two days old !! but actually did have taste. There is a bit of controversy as the Edradour Distillery at Pitlochry, has - up till now been classed as the smallest in Scotland - but as they use different methods they are getting round it that way.
You can stay in the hotel for 5 days and have the opportunity to brew, ferment, distill, and rack a 5 ltr cask of Uisge Beathe - for a nominal £1000 !!!!!!!!!!, or a nights Dinner B & B for £350.
On a similar theme I see that an expedition has recovered some intact bottles of McKinlays whisky which was buried under the ice on the site of Shackleton's store stache in the Antarctic - apparently most of the bottles are intact, a dream find.
Anyway, one dram led to another and as were watching Rangers winning their cup semi final time soon passed - end result being that I missed the end of the "Day of The Jackal" ( Edward Fox in the original version) once again.
Thurday a.m. was a bit of a strain !!! but I made it to town and to work by 7.15 a.m. Bar was steady all day, and I eventually left to get home for 5 p.m. Just enough time to get sorted and out to Newbattle for a meeting of Dundas RA Chapter which is now meeting there. As this was a Provincial visitation led by the provincial Superintendent Alexander Foster Mooney, there was a good turn out and an excellent working of the RA Degree with two candidates up from London.
Received a nice surprise E mail from Tilak and Srimithy at the Eden Resort and Spa , Berewulla, Sri Lanka, which we stayed at five years ago. Lovely e mail, full of news and we are delighted to hear that business has recovered after the tsunami. It would certainly be nice to go back there, the Spa was magic, three hours a day for eight days - plenty sunshine and lovely fresh food.
Not sure why, but cannot add photos on this computer so I will change machines.
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