Dalmore 18 – Manners Maketh Whisky
Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 – a compendium of quotes and proverbs from his day. In […]
Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 – a compendium of quotes and proverbs from his day. In […]
My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is the (one-legged) little menace, Saci Perere. It makes sense, since […]
Hiraeth. I couldn’t start this post any other way, but with ‘hiraeth’. The Welsh equivalent of our untranslatable Portuguese word ‘saudade’. Hiraeth has a little extra meaning – it […]
Ah, the White-headed eagle – a beautiful, strong and fierce animal, at the top of the food chain, feared and respected by all. No wonder it was chosen to represent […]
Today, on the way to work, my car told me it was up for a service. The electronic dumping control – or something like that – wasn’t working. When I […]
January is the month of my birthday. I turned thirty-three, with the liver of a sixty-something year old. And I realised something: My last thirty years were no way near […]
When I was a child I didn’t really care about the latest fad. I never touched a tazo and I never collected Coca-Cola bottles. But one thing always got me […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Not the portuguese perfect homonym for weather. because everybody knows that this weather is crazy, and sometimes it’s cold in the morning, it’s hot in […]
When I was born, my dad had a gold Puma car. From my earliest, tender childhood years I loved that car. My dad probably did too, because he kept it […]
Once I mentioned the Ariel Atom, a car that can hardly be considered a car. There is no radio, no windscreen, certainly no air-conditioning, no roof, no doors and don’t […]