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My 70’s Tipple

Ask anyone to name wine from 70s and almost everyone will mention Blue Nun (a German Liebfraumilch – mother’s milk, anyone???) and Mateus Rose – as drunk by the Queen and Jimi Hendrix – apparently! I suspect the unusual packaging made them memorable: a tall, thin blue bottle a blue and white-clad nun on theContinue reading “My 70’s Tipple”

My Music – 1970 top thirteen

Trying to make the Calamity Chicks series a truly immersive 70s experience, I’ve spent days of my life trawling through websites to rediscover the best music of my life. As anyone who was a teen in the 70s will know, it took us from tail-end of crooners and Beatles, through all that Glam-rock, Disco andContinue reading “My Music – 1970 top thirteen”