Author - Nick Jeffrey

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Mourv-ing On Up

As I continue with my pandemic response plan of hiding in my wine cellar until the world returns to normal, there have been many discoveries of long-forgotten...

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Ehren the Side of Caution

I have decided not to participate in 2021, so will be retreating into the wine cellar until the world has returned to normal.  While digging through some...

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Hankering for Haggis

I thought that things would change when we bid farewell to the dumpster fire of a year that was 2020, but January seems more like the 13th month of 2020 than...

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Pandemic W(h)ine

Can I get a refund for the year 2021?  The first week or so was even worse than 2020, so I am no longer interested in participating in 2021.  If you...

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Happy Beer-thday

While I am happy to finally see the year 2020 in the rearview mirror, not much has changed in the early days of January.  I am still isolated at home with...

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YOLO For Barolo

I have been isolated at home for so long that I have forgotten about the outside world, with international travel but a dim and fading memory.  A few...

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Santa Beer

No one left any milk and cookies for Santa this year, fearing him to be a COVID superspreader, due to all the households he visited in the wee morning hours of...

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Trepat-dation

When the news came out about Alberta going into lockdown again, I immediately activated my pandemic response plan.  No, I did not stock up on toilet paper...

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Champagne

If 2020 was a drink, it would be a Baileys and lime juice.  Or maybe a red wine mixed with Diet Coke.  Or whatever terrible cocktail you can think of...

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Franc and Earnest

With Alberta doubling its daily COVID infection count from 1000 to 2000 in just a few short weeks, I am continuing my lonesome hermitage at home, with naught...