May 23, 2025
The Weekly Mash Fri May 23
Hello folks. There’s a horticultural theme this week. As ever, thoughts are welcome. Tell your many friends. Elvis…
May 16, 2025
The Weekly Mash Fri May 16
How’s it going? Trust your week has been a good one. This week’s ramble stravaigs around Dublin in…
May 8, 2025
The Weekly Mash May 9 2025
Welcome drammers. Thanks for the kind words for last week’s screed. Let’s see if I can keep…
May 1, 2025
The Weekly Mash
So, I’m trying something new. A weekly round up of thoughts, drams, updates, reminders and anything else that’s…
April 30, 2025
The DV fall-out: spoons at the ready
Musician James Yorkston runs a series of gigs called ‘Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer’. The title is taken…
April 10, 2025
Breaking point
ANY MENTION OF Japanese craft gets my antennae tingling. The idea that a whisky was embracing the art…
January 20, 2025
The Amber Isle crowdfunder
With the hugely exciting news (we didn’t even known about it) that ‘The Amber Light’ is now on…
October 29, 2024
Luxury Whisky & The Tinkerbell Theory
I received a mail from one of my editors recently. She’d kindly sent me details of an expensive…
October 24, 2024
A NEW WORLD ATLAS OF WHISKY!
I wrote the first World Atlas of Whisky in 2010. The second edition came out in 2014.…
September 20, 2024
There’s a storm a-comin’
Whisky has always moved in waves, a giant swell of peak and troughs, a pattern that repeats at…