Wednesday January 16th was my 70th birthday, which was spent quietly. Anya is in Russia working on her film, Mashka is away at university, so there was just Yuri and I at home. Each Wednesday at 7 PM the fish and chip van comes to our village. And my friend Brian Morton, with whom we always spend New Year on the West coast of Scotland, had given me a unique personal bottling of a Longrow single malt whisky from the Campbeltown distilleryfor this occasion… such is life in an English village…

Birthday supper

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