Thursday 7th November - seek and ye shall find

But generally not until after you have bought and paid for a replacement...

That has happened so many times, including an entire kit comprising socks, hat, thermals, gloves, and goggles for a school skiing trip; bought, lost, bought again and found... thank heavens the ski trousers and jacket were hired by the school so I didn't have to replace them as well!

Here's the poem I was on about yesterday, and used as an excuse to buy a couple of poetry anthologies in order to find it. 

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sometimes-416/

It spoke deeply to me the first time I read it, and still does today. The poem is in the 'Poems on the Underground' anthology a bought a month or so ago, that must be why I had a fairly recent nemory of it.

I planned to make the first of Nigel Slater's 'Christmas Potions' as I have been calling them this afternoon. Accordingly I sterilised four jam jars and lids and fetched out the prunes and raisins. Now for the wine; but I had bought Muscadet, a dry white wine, instead of Muscadel, or Muscat, a rich dessert wine. Hey ho, tomorrow is another day. Actually it will have to wait until I can buy the right wine next week sometime. 

Twice I have had some eis-wein, or ice-wine, once here in England, bought from Denbies vineyard in Surrey, and once while staying with friends in Canada. It's not so common, and is a special sweet dessert wine made from grapes which have frozen while still on the vine. A little glass of it is delicious if you like sweet dessert wine, especially with Christmas pudding or fruit cake or just as a treat!