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October 12, 2005
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Mr Frog and I lead a fairly average sort of life, really. Sure, we have our moments, but aside from those we're just like any other couple.
We kiss the other person good bye - We go to work.
We get home - We cook dinner and we spend the evening commentating "Dancing with the Stars" before stumbling into bed.
It's all rather domestic, I hesitate to say 'bliss', (nobody has invented a self cleaning saucepan) but we both enjoy each other's company.
We had the idea of creating some home brewed beer a little while back. We got quite giddy with the idea of having 30 bottles of hand crafted amber liquid gold, so we threw caution to the wind and bought ourselves a Home Brew Kit.
As this is our first 'brew' we're taking everything just a little bit too seriously. I dissolved my left hand while cleaning the brewing vat in insecticide/pesticide/anti-fungal/anti-nuclear brewing detergent. Mr Frog measured out the required 25Lt of hydro chemically purified water to the nearest mL.
We've got devices that look like high school pipettes with all sorts of calibrations on the side. I dutifully used said instruments with all the reverence of a Wizards Apprentice. Topping the brewing barrel is a water filled pressure release, which measures the rate of fermentation by way of making gloopy blurupy sounds periodically. Beer Brewing is surely a dark art.
It has changed us fundamentally. All of this has certainly changed the way Mr Frog and I view our humble glass of beer. Once, we would walk around the house carrying out intelligent adult conversations regarding a variety of subjects. Now, we walk around the house speaking to our brewing barrel in a series of unintelligible and un-spellable 'blurubs'.
What makes me realise that I love Mr Frog more than anything in the world is the fact that he is just as crazy as I am.
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Posted by Jacqui at October 12, 2005 12:59 AM