Saturday, 1 January, 2005

mulled wine, patience and fireworks

mulledwine apart from making a rather simple but lovely dinner of couscous with baked peppers and aubergines, tomatoes, corriander, drizzle of olive oil and soya sauce and serving it with golden-baked chicken wings with a dash of spiciness which were hungrily devoured mainly by a male guest who is the friend of XY (leaving us poor ladies with only just enough... grrrr... and pics of which i never got to take because it all disappeared too quickly!), i concocted some lovely mulled wine yesterday with the help of a bag of mulled wine spices (grounded cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice) and added some cranberry and grape juice to a bottle of red wine together with some 3 tablespoons of brown sugar and the lovely clove-studded baked oranges (a brilliant invention by Ruth's mum!) to give it a full-flavoured taste of loveliness...

Frauke, my ex-neighbour from the flat below where i used to live in T?bingen is here to spend new-year's and we made our way to Blackford hill with some lovely mulled wine to welcome the new year...

little did we know how time-confused we were until we were almost at the foot of the hill... the view of the clock tower of a chapel on the way alerted us to our temporal folly and reminded yours truly that she's still living by continental German time... we were terribly early.... an hour to be precise... so we had to keep warm in the windy dark night and hoped that other people would arrive soon to avoid looking stupid or too eager.

but our patience was rewarded by some beautiful fireworks shooting upwards from the 7 hills surrounding Edinburgh... but it was all too brief!

here are some fragments of flying colours i managed to capture...

fireworks on Blackford Hill

you'll just have to trust me that it looked far more spectacular than these wee little fragments!

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Saturday, 1 January, 2005 at 23:03 hrs
Comments

i see you're making good use of the cam! very nice!

Posted by: dsd on Monday, 3 January, 2005 at 00:44 hrs

these are great shots! Even my little camera can't take very good night pictures. What is the model of your camera?

Posted by: monoceros on Monday, 3 January, 2005 at 20:07 hrs

it's a canon ixus IIs with 3.2megpix... a lovely gift from Kuangwei.

Posted by: hrm on Monday, 3 January, 2005 at 23:56 hrs

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