I'm delighted that the Ivy+ Fine Spirits showcase delighted you. I'm rather fascinated that there is such a thing as an Islay gin; as a general rule, I only drink brown spirits, but I might make an exception for that one.
For no very good some reason the term "Pennsylvania absinthe" amuses me.
Happy birthday to your mother! I hope her birthday observed was lovely.
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I might have to read that book sometime, myself.
4. Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "sadder than a map"?
Alas, I do not. I wish I did. It's a lovely phrase, in any event. I like "a set of seven brights" as well, although I can't seem to work it out without its native context. What exactly does it mean?
5. Handfish!
Thanks! I've not heard of them before. They look rather appealing.
Once, when I was a child and we were staying in a condo somewhere (I think) round Charleston, SC, my father caught a Sargassum fish in a bucket at the beach. There had been a storm a few days previous, and there was all sorts of weed and flotsam from as far as the Sargasso Sea around, with which the fish had presumably come. It was amazingly cute, although there was also some concern that it might be some sort of miniature lionfish; my mother rang up her brother in Mobile, who identified it from her description.
Sargassum fish don't look so much like the handfish, but they do have what look like little hands for grasping the seaweed. My father said it was probably an alien and its shipmates would come back to collect it, so we'd best make friends. Alas, they didn't.
We kept it in a big jar of sea water for a day or two, changing the water twice or thrice daily. If we'd been in Mobile, and my uncle had had a salt water tank with space for it, we might have given it to him, but we weren't and he didn't, so we released it out in the sea.
ETA: I'd no idea Stéphane Grappelli and Pink Floyd had ever collaborated. I'm rather intrigued by the notion.
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no very goodsome reason the term "Pennsylvania absinthe" amuses me.Happy birthday to your mother! I hope her birthday observed was lovely.
3.
I might have to read that book sometime, myself.
4. Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "sadder than a map"?
Alas, I do not. I wish I did. It's a lovely phrase, in any event. I like "a set of seven brights" as well, although I can't seem to work it out without its native context. What exactly does it mean?
5. Handfish!
Thanks! I've not heard of them before. They look rather appealing.
Once, when I was a child and we were staying in a condo somewhere (I think) round Charleston, SC, my father caught a Sargassum fish in a bucket at the beach. There had been a storm a few days previous, and there was all sorts of weed and flotsam from as far as the Sargasso Sea around, with which the fish had presumably come. It was amazingly cute, although there was also some concern that it might be some sort of miniature lionfish; my mother rang up her brother in Mobile, who identified it from her description.
Sargassum fish don't look so much like the handfish, but they do have what look like little hands for grasping the seaweed. My father said it was probably an alien and its shipmates would come back to collect it, so we'd best make friends. Alas, they didn't.
We kept it in a big jar of sea water for a day or two, changing the water twice or thrice daily. If we'd been in Mobile, and my uncle had had a salt water tank with space for it, we might have given it to him, but we weren't and he didn't, so we released it out in the sea.
ETA: I'd no idea Stéphane Grappelli and Pink Floyd had ever collaborated. I'm rather intrigued by the notion.