Archive | December, 2009
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What Wine Goes Best With Snow?

by on 18. Dec, 2009 in Just Plain Weird

I’ve just returned from the village shop carrying a bag of coal on my shoulder and a bottle of Shiraz under my arm. Shoreham is covered in snow. And it looks simply stunning. Now that I’m home and the fire is starting to roar I really fancy some  ice cream. Cold and snow do that [...]

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How to Make A Chandelier out of Wine Glasses

by on 17. Dec, 2009 in Just Plain Weird

My wife is looking for a lampshade for the bedroom in our new cottage. I said to her “Forget the lampshade luv, lets get ourselves a wine glass chandelier by John Harrington.” There’s a choice of a 150 glass chandelier or a 300 glass one. We’ve a small cottage so I think…no hang on,  the [...]

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Reliving the 1980′s Part 3: Veuve Du Vernay 1989

by on 15. Dec, 2009 in Video Magic

Bloke is running to catch his train. He makes it to the train, just in time. He sits opposite a Hitchcockian Blonde. Train conductor asks for his ticket, but wait, bloke can’t find his ticket. He panics. Blonde nods towards Bloke’s penguin classic, now resting on the table. Bloke looks befuddled. Blonde nods again. Eureka! [...]

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Me and Orson Welles – By Paul Masson. Hic.

by on 14. Dec, 2009 in Video Magic

The recent UK release of the movie ‘Me and Orson Welles’ provides WOTW with the perfect excuse to post the infamous drunken out-takes from Orson’s ill-fated promotion of Paul Masson Champagne. Watch as the world famous director, actor, writer and impresario struggles to keep hold of both his words and his champagne flute. And then [...]

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