Awards and citations:


1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Monday 4 January 2010

Not Alberta but it's cold, Bob!

Newtonmore, Scotland: 3.1.2010

When we set off back to London on Sunday morning from Newtonmore around 9.30am it was minus 9.5. This dipped further to minus 11.5 near Pitlochry about an hour or so later.

Icicles outside a conservatory (above and below)



A little snow

Diagonal icicle

Driving along near Dalwhinnie: minus 9.5˚C

Sun on mountains near Newtonmore

Hillside near Dalwhinnie

Lake District hills from M6 motorway (above and below)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Goodlord Jim, that is a lot of snow. Wipes tear from eye!! How do people get around, just follow the hic snowplough?!!

Bob

Jim's Loire said...

Not surprised you're stunned, Bob!

Weston said...

no snow in vancouver here just some cloud, some rain little cool but hey its vancouver! not winterpeg