Important Facts About Beer

 
Take a moment to visit the very amusing Oatmeal website. This is an excerpt from their highly informative 20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer :

Indian Country

 
Today I was supposed to go into Tainan City for 'business". But was side-tracked by coffee and the internet. Suddenly it was lunch time. Loaded the platoon into the car and headed into town. I was looking for somewhere to sit outside. And which served cold beer. Got both at the Indian restaurant - on Guanting Road.

Food was good. A plate of five Tandoori Lamb chops cost me R50 (200NT) and they were everything they were supposed to be. The lamb also cooperated most admirably with the Kingfisher beer. This lager does the trick. (Photo from my wife)

According to the Kingfisher website it's India's No 1. selling beer with a 34% market share. And here's an amazing statistic:

Four beers are sold every second in India! (Is that better than the University of Stellenbosch at Intervarsity?). And one of those four beers is a Kingfisher.

I like to think that I played a role in maintaining Kingfisher's commanding presence in the beer market - at least this afternoon.

This is a link to the Kingfisher website.

Up in the morning before the sun...

 
Following on my Macbeth cauldron theme from yesterday.

Made a South African traditional "potjie" yesterday - on a charcoal fire.  One Chicken. The whole bottle of wine went in to keep it company. The family dog ( a combination of husky and another - as yet unidentified - canine) did not leave my side for the 4 hours of cooking. The stew fed what seemed to be an entire platoon of kids. 

Up at 0415 this morning. This is what happens when you take your vacation on a farm.

There is a company of  marines up on the side of the hill nearby - they're attached to the very large Air Force Base that lies just north. I haven't heard them yet but I will soon. They make an ungodly amount of noise screaming at each other in the early morning. I don't get that. A nicely hidden base, camo nets etc. but everybody within earshot - and that's a distance of about 3 clicks on a cold morning - knows where they are.

Of course, if it was a training base that would be different. Nothing makes sense there. See below. Nobody would normally do this.













Ah, 20 years and 30 kilograms ago...