Lisa dropped me off at Rushcutters Bay at 9am for my sailing lesson and and then she headed to Paddies market and bought a treasure trove of fresh organic veggies.
Lisa picked me up and we got home and bbq’d Hawaiian chicken that I had marinating for two days and some excellent Tasmanian Salmon that we placed on top of baby green spinach salads.
After lunch we worked out in the gym at the apartment building and then got cleaned up and headed out to see the movie The Boat That Rocked about pirate radio stations aboard boats in the North Sea off of England during the late 60s. Lisa and I both thought it was a feel good movie with a good sound track. We hadn’t intended to drink any this day, but the forces of mankind were against us. As we were sitting down waiting for the movie to start, half the audience walked in with glasses of wine in their hands. This did not make Lisa happy. Then during the movie there was copious amounts of drinking and smoking. It got to the point the where Lisa and I felt like we were deprived and after the movie walked a bit of the way home to get Lisa’s leg a bit of a workout and then hopped a taxi to take us to our pad and a bottle of wine. Forces conspiring against. Why were we not drinking, we usually give up booze for lent, but lent got started a little late for us, so we extended it. Now if we can just not place ourselves in situations where we feel deprived, we might just make it.
In the okay Australian wine category, we have two new entrants that were fine:
Bullant 2006 Cabernet Merlot
Torbreck’s Barossa Valley 2007 Woodcutter’s Shiraz
