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Every November 8th

Every November 8th

I normally take my coffee black, but I was visiting my eldest son at his place on the north side of Brisbane to give my granddaughter her birthday presents for last week and he said I'll make you a coffee on my coffee machine.

I told him that today was Cappuccino Day, so I told him you can make me one of those if you like?

So, he did.

Then he put on a Spotify playlist of piano music over his kitchen speakers, and I told him it was also 'World Pianist Day' and he said something like "interesting" ... but in that I'm not really interested in your small talk kind of way.

Funnily enough, some of the presents I gave my granddaughter were musical instruments like shaker eggs and clap sticks and a Tibetan singing bowl that I bought off a Tibetan monk at a music festival years ago ... but no piano.

#World_pianist_day

My favorite world pianist is Billy Joel, who I included a song of his in my last post -

 

Merlot vs. Pinot Noir?🍷🥊🍷

My eldest son asked me if I wanted some Thai food from a restaurant up the road from his place for lunch and I told him, "no, I was gonna get a pizza and a beer from the Last Man Standing brewery on the way home", and my youngest son (who was driving me around) said, "that's news to me, and besides I have stuff to do this afternoon", in which case I said to him, "well, that's news to me as well".

So, I had no choice but to get Thai or starve until dinner time.

But it was good.

Every November 8th

Every November 8th

Having grown up living most of my life on the southside of Brisbane and in Logan City, I've never got used to the northside of Brisbane, and while I don't mind visiting the northside of Brisbane I always think when I'm over that way that I would never want to live on the northside.

Every November 8th

I had planned more things for today, but I ran out of time ... as we all do:-)

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Merlot vs. Pinot Noir?🍷🥊🍷

Every November 7th

In Sam Neill's autobiography he tries to convince the reader that Pinot Noir is the duck's guts when it comes to wine drinking, so I bought a bottle of Pinot Noir from Southern New Zealand called 'South Island', which while not the wine brand Sam owns is the grape variety and same part of the world Sam's own wine comes from.

I couldn't get a bottle of Sam's Two Paddocks brand wine to taste, so I settled on this Southern New Zealand Pinot Noir wine below after reading the reviews.

And while it was OK in that easy drinking watered down tasting red kind of way, it's not the red wine I would choose personally.

Obviously, Pinot Noir is the only grape that would grow down where Sam has his winery, so what's he gonna tell you?

My red wine I drink on a regular basis with my meals at night on most occasions when a red goes with my meal is the wine pictured above, which is a real cheap bang for my buck Shiraz/Cabernet local mix of red wine.

So, knowing that today was 'Merlot Day' I bought a bottle of organic Australian Merlot called 'Farm Hand' and drank it at home with my Amalfis Pizza Lasagne, because Sam wrote in his book how as a young broke actor in New Zealand he would be paid a small amount of cash and free lasagna, which was all he ate most nights during this period of his acting career.  

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I'm sorry to say, but I think Sam is wrong about Pinot Noir being the duck's guts when it comes to wine drinking, as I would rather have Merlot any day over Pinot Noir.

Although, my favourite wine is sparkling wine still:-)

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I would imagine?-)

So, there is an Italian Brainrot movie in the works according to 'The Rest is Entertainment' podcast above, which will be interesting to watch I think, if the whole Italian Brainrot thing doesn't lose the interest of the younger generations by then?

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