Richard Patterson

Richard Patterson came down today to give his whisk(e)y lectures to one of the Diploma groups we've got at the moment. He was a bit surprised it was a small group (there are only 3 of them on the course in question) and I suspect his lecture was a little toned down from usual as a result.

I sat in on one of his lectures earlier in the year and it's certainly an experience. In many ways it seems more like a show then a lecture. It's certainly the one that most of the trust talk about.

It's a lot of work preparing his props and getting the room set up for him, but he's always really appreciative of what we do and it's worth it to see how well his lectures go down.

No class in the same room tonight, so left the cleaners to clear up though....

Cockburns '77

Godfrey was off to do a port tasting at UCL this evening (have had a lot of port sitting around the office for the past few days as we've got a tasting at work next week too...).

We decanted a couple of the vintages in the prep room before he left (and sampled them too of course).

Included in his line up for the evening was Cockburns 1977. For a wine that technically doesn't exist, it was very nice...

Interesting Spam

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

...what take one twice a day? oh, and are they veggie?