18 Tuesday Oct 2022
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This year I have two fabulous sherry tastings on offer for Sherry Week (November 7-13th). A lunchtime Sherry & Tapas tasting at my beloved Casa Morales. And new this year is a gorgeous gourmet tasting option at chic Restaurante Zelai featuring wines by Bodegas Lustau that is available late afternoons. Spread the word!
17 Monday Oct 2022
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Well, that is using last Wednesday (first positive test) as Day 1. As you can see the ol’ T Line is finally getting a bit fainter. I’m far from “out of the woods” but according the the government, after five days of isolation I’m good to go, you know, to work, out shopping, hanging out with friends, travelling… all without a mask. Even though I am obviously still infectious af.
Aside from being angry and frustrated at THAT I also want to give a special shout out to all you deniers and anti-vaxxers/maskers whose utter selfishness is making people sick (or killing them). The government couldn’t have done this without you.
Also you can imagine how I’m feeling about every person who scoffed that l was being “over cautious” and should “get on with my life” over the past two and a half years. Plus a big fuck off to the response that this was “inevitable”. Because in fact it was totally preventable. All it would have taken was that people take sensible preventative measures DURING A GODDAM GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Apparently this was too much to ask for because people are fucking selfish assholes (except for those few who aren’t). Because guess what? I am proof positive that this fucking pandemic IS NOT OVER.
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16 Sunday Oct 2022
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15 Saturday Oct 2022
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Nurse Morcilla is back on duty. 🧡🐈⬛
14 Friday Oct 2022
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Sherry time? Beer O’clock? How about tapas at any hour? It seems that some people are under the impression that I am either eating or drinking (or both) at the actual time I post food and wine photos on my various social media accounts. I mean, really? Sherry at 9 in the morning? Tapas at 11? You know, when bars haven’t even opened yet. Or else assuming that I am actually eating or drinking everything I post, which has led to more than a few fat-shaming comments (from assholes, obviously).
Truth is that I take a LOT of photos when I am out and about. This might be when I’m out for a cold beer, out for tapas with friends, on a tapas tour with clients, at an event, and sometimes even grabbing some shots of good looking stuff coming out of a restaurant kitchen when I’ve stopped somewhere for a quick sherry. I do this because people seem to like all the food pics I post on my Sevilla Tapas Twitter and Instagram, not to mention all the updates on the Sevilla Tapas website.
Later I spend quite a bit of time editing the photos and texts and putting them into drafts so I can easily post them when I want to. The only posts that go up in real time are my Beer O’clock ones, because they just take a minute. To be honest, it would be rude of me to spend all my time eating out with friends uploading pics and comments onto Instagram. It’s bad enough nobody can eat until I take photos of the food (the camera eats first!).
This week ought to confuse a few people since I am still putting up at least one photo a day, much like I did during lockdown. I bet more than a few are going to wonder how I’m out there having tapas when I’m supposed to be at home with Covid. At last count there are more than 40,000 photos in my iPhone, most of them food and wine related. So hey… the illusion is easy.
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