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Bought myself a bottle of Isle of Jura a coupla days ago - it's been too hot to really appreciate it the last couple of days, so I left it alone and drank the Castle Lager (South African lager - very nice it is too) instead. Last night the weather eventually broke. It'd been threatening to all day, the clouds had been building and building, turning from white whisps in the sky into grey monoliths.

When it broke, and the cool storm air started to pervade my space, wrapping round me and taking away that hot, humid taste to the world, I knew what I had to do :) The box is short and squat, unsealed - hiding a beautifully shaped bottle. Almost like a coke bottle that's been squashed flat on two sides. The seal on the bottle top came off with ease and I pulled out the cork stopper - and sniffed.

I won't even try to describe it to you, but if you can imagine what a good (fairly light) Malt Whisky smells like, use your imgination and go to heaven. I poured myself less than a shot into a tall and thin shot glass, and spent another few moments savouring the smell, tasting the aroma, and when the time was right, sipped gently.

Again - I couldn't describe to you the taste, but it is 100 times better than the last bottle I bought - Ardbeg 10yr old, 47.5%, peaty and vicious - smooth and with a only very slight burn.

Yep, last night was a good whisky night.

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Of working on such a crap and rainy day, I went out for a walk. I got to the garage at the end of the road and got a sudden craving for a cig :( This is bad news. I finished a pack last night and promised, I promised that I would stop. Well, I bought a pack of Embassy Mild which is a small step on the road from Regal, I guess :)

Anyhow, it really is a lovely day out there. Raining, cool and fresh. Cloud as far as the eye can see. Heh :)

Some of you may have seen my pic repository at http://www.bigfoot.com/~phil_sumner/, I'm after ideas now. I used to keep a website with varous things on - trip diaries, a diary similar to this, info on me and basically loads of gubbins. I'd like to start another website similar, but I want to have an idea of where it's going to go, instead of starting off with something that just bumbles along nicely.

If anyone can help me out with a few possible ideas for a low maintenance, relatively high content site, let me know please!