. Adventure

Christmas is coming, but how fast is it coming?  The best way to keep track is with a whiskey advent calendar.

It's December 1st already, so we'd better get started.  What's behind door number one?

A Dalmore 12 year old single malt, matured mostly in old bourbon casks, and briefly in old sherry casks.  Sweet, light and just a bit spicy, says Nif.

The Dalmore distillery is in Scotland, 20 miles north of Inverness.  It is owned by an Indian conglomerate that also makes beer, airplanes and fertilizer.

. merry merry

. Merry Christmas

. Favourite Beer of the Week

Like the previous Kiuchi Hitachino nest beer I tried, XH produced a big old frothy head which hung around for quite a while and gave me plenty of time to find the camera and take a picture of it.

The beer tasted a bit odd, kind of sour-ish, perhaps. It says on the back of the bottle that XH is fermented in old sake casks, so maybe that's it. Anyway, I liked it. I liked the taste, and the cute stumpy bottle, and the owl picture on the bottle top, and the bright orange colour of the beer, especially when back lit by last year's Christmas lights that we still haven't removed from the kitchen.

When should you take down Christmas lights? Ehow.com have a fascinating and highly informative six point instructional fact file on the matter. As with all of Ehow.com's tens of thousands of "How to" documents, "How to Tell When to Take Down Your Christmas Lights and Decorations" is a priceless resource for such a challenging subject. They have the problem catagorised as "moderately easy", which is more demanding than "easy" but not as difficult as "moderate". Here is a small excerpt:

"Take down your Christmas lights and decorations if your lights go out after Christmas. If your lights go out before Christmas, you’ll probably want to fix the problem. However, if they go out sometime in January, you should probably just take them down and either try to fix them next season or just buy new lights."

Thanks Ehow.com. You are great.

. Printing

I helped print our Christmas card. And for some reason I wore a dress. Does it make my bum look big?