Safely Moved!

No posts for a while as we've been up to our eyeballs in moving house before, during and after Easter. No time for any more reflections on Easter: and it's a lot easier to follow the seasons when you're in one place rather than two! But now we're settled in, we can start to think more about seasonal customs, food and drink.

It's all gone pretty smoothly, thankfully. Only one (potential) casualty from the move as well, which was good going. The bottom fell out of a box and our soda syphon ended up hurling itself to the floor. I can't see any damage on it, other than a dent in the metal 'netting' which protects the glass. But we'll just have to try using it, wrapping it in a towel as the CO2 cartridge goes in.

The plants in pots have survived the removal lorry and the northern latitudes and as you can see from the pictures our seedlings also made the journey. They came by car, lashed with parcel tape to boxes to stop them flying around. The top picture is mostly tomato plants; the one to the right mostly chillies. They're all putting on new leaves nicely.

Another relief was the survival of our supplies of booze. Our favourite dry and sweet vermouths - Dolin and Punt e Mes respectively - which we found in the wonderful Bacchanalia shop on Mill Road in Cambridge, will be eked out in cocktails over the next few months. Our various concoctions made with fruit and vodka - quince, (forced) rhubarb and some blackcurrants that we found while emptying the old freezer - are also settling down after their trip north.

Most importantly, our small but perfectly formed collection of 75cl bottles of Belgian beer - again from Bacchanalia - emerged from their boxes unscathed. Although we think that it'll be a good while before they've settled down to be ready to drink. We were very happy to unwrap the De Cam Oude Lambiek (bottled 2005) and the selection from Drie Fonteinen - two bottles of the Vintage Gueuze (bottle dates of 2002 and 2003) as well as some of their Oude Kriek and their raspberry Hommage.