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Author: Amie Brûlée
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Tiny Pleasures #122: Mum’s Apples
My mum came to visit today, bringing with her a big basket of home grown apples. They’re delicious and crunchy, juicy and sweet, with wonderfully upright stalks. I just ate one. Now I want another. Not because I’m hungry, but because they such a pleasure to eat.
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Tiny Pleasures #121: Symmetrical Numbers
Why is it that symmetrical numbers are so pleasing? You know, when the time is 10:01, or the odometer reads 178871, or you reach blog number 121? We’re strange creatures, humans, who love symmetry amid the chaos. This is what came up first when I googled ‘Pleasing Numbers’. An oil painting by Giacomo Balla in…
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Tiny Pleasures #120: Wine Study
The practical side of wine study is definitely the most pleasurable part.
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Tiny Pleasures #119: The Wine Nose
The Wine Nose – Le Nez du Vin – is a wonderful collection of 52 tiny vials containing aromas found in wine. I got it out tonight to prepare for my wine exam and was reminded how fun it is to stimulate the olfactory senses. Is that lemon or grapefruit? Truffle or Mushroom? One smells…
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Tiny Pleasures #118: Old Doodle
I cleaned out a box of papers today and while most of it went in the bin, I found some fun drawings by my kids. And a few of my own. Like this little self-portrait, done around 2018.
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Tiny Pleasures #117: Cheese Board
A cheese board is always a pleasure. I mean, one cheese is pretty good, but three snuggled up together is a whole other thing. Cheddar, blue and brie: all bases covered.
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Tiny Pleasures #116: Made Up Cake
I found a container of unknown contents in the freezer yesterday. Upon defrosting they revealed themselves to be vintage bananas. Cake is the only logical thing to do with old bananas, so this morning that is precisely what I did. It was all going well until half way through the process I realised my fridge…
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Tiny Pleasures #115: Brass Letter Slot
How marvellous it would be to have a brass letter slot in a heavy black door. It must make a satisfying snap as the letters drop onto the floor inside and the flap shuts behind them.
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Tiny Pleasures #114: Oloroso Sherry
Sherry is a many and varied thing. We tend to think it’s sweet and comes out of a flagon, but in Spain, in Jerez, it is more often than not dry. Oloroso style is aged in oak with lots of oxidative characteristics – think toffee, leather, dried apple, walnut and spices. It’s dry and served…
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Tiny Pleasures #113: Random Shoe
On the external windowsill on the second floor of a city building sits a single shoe. All by itself. Up the right way. As though someone was walking along and their foot simply slipped out. Except it’s on the second floor windowsill. Its story shall remain a mystery.