Scotch Whisky

Now, I didn't drink much alcohol prior to having kids, and whisky was definately not something I would ever CHOOSE to drink, however being in Scotland, I had to try it. My first time...so painful. Burned the whole way going down, and I couldn't force myself to take a second sip.
Fast forward two years.
Paul is having a small dram of 10 year old Jura while reading in bed. He turns out his bedside lamp, and goes to drink the last little bit in has glass... he underestimates the amount in the glass and it spills down his chin and onto the bed sheets.

I smell the whisky all night long, but instead of a strong alcohol smell, it's a lovely scent of Vanilla, and honey, and cinnamon.... golden honey dripping off a vanilla blossom in the morning sun while the cinnamon fairies since and an angel gets it's wings... it was lovely.
The next time he had a dram so did I, and since then, I've been sold. I've never met a whisky I haven't liked.
For my birthday, Paul took me to Jura so I could visit the distillery there.

We have a book called the "Whisky Companion" or just "THE BOOK" as we call it, that has all the single malt scotch whisky's listed there along with all the information on it, history, distillery location, tasting notes, whisky score.
 We're drinking our way through the book! I love learning about it, and it's a wonderful little hobby that Paul and I enjoy together!

Prepaid Gas and Electricity Meters

What is THAT?? Yep... exactly.
Someone had the audacity to say "Hey! We have prepaid phones and prepaid visa cards, lets make a prepaid gas meter! The home owner will have to have a key that they put an amount on and once that amount is used then the gas gets shut off and they don't have any heat or hot water or a way to cook until they add more money onto it! We will charge them extra for the key, and the meter and a few other taxes here and there as well so they will end up paying 10% more (according to the BBC) on their gas then they would if they had a normal bill, but this way there can never be any debt on the account. Nevermind if the family using the meter has two small children who rely on hot water to heat bottles and have baths and...oh yeah... STAY WARM! If the meter runs out of money at 9:30 at night when all the shops are closed, they can just go without for 12 hours. Let's only put it in poor districts too... nobody cares what the poor think if they complain and if an upper class family moves into the area on accident, because the wife is American who can't tell if a neighborhood is ghetto or not because all the houses are either hundreds of years old or look like the box a refrigerator came in covered in rocks, they can pay the £300 to have it removed, even though we installed it for free! Hey Hey! Lets do it with electricity too!  We are gonna be RICH!"

Prepaid electric meter

prepaid gas meter