The Hjärta is delivered

The Hjärta has landed! Anders Jonasson of the Box Whisky, the Swedish malt whisky company hands over the bottle of Highland Park “Hjärta” to Cim in Östersund. This special bottle of whisky is a gift from Cim and me to Cim’s brother Jonas, to ceebrate the five years since Jonas donated a kidney to Cim. [...]

Tactical Nuclear Penguin: The World’s Strongest Beer and The Ultimate Antarctic Beverage?

We interrupt our usual broadcasts to bring you news of something that actually involves Antarctica. Well, penguins anyway. Oh alright, two Scots dressed as penguins. But hey! It’s a world record claim involving a malt-based beverage, and as long-term Antarctic Odyssey readers will know, I claim the record for the world’s southernmost whisky tasting. The [...]

Shackleton’s Whisky Stash Found

If you’ve been on this blog before, you might be aware of my claim to the World’s southernmost whisky tasting, from our trip to Antarctica in March 2008. It seems the pioneer Ernest Shackleton was tasting whisky on the continent nearly 100 years before me. According to this article in the Global Post, “Polar explorers [...]

An “Ordinary” Job: Making Someone “Supernormal”

The best description I have heard of Cim so far: “Supernormal”. Dr Malcolm Brown of  Astellas Pharmaceuticals came up with that during our presentation on 3 July at the Staines-based pharmaceutical company, near Heathrow. Astellas is the company that makes Prograf, the anti- rejection drug Cim has taken ever since her kidney transplant in December [...]

120 Degrees of Separation: Whisky at 55° 42′ N

Whisky Tasting: 55° 42′ N, originally uploaded by maltjerry. The second leg of the “World’s Most Latitudinally Separated Annual Whisky Tasting” in The Bishops Arms, Lund, Sweden. Latitude 55° 42′ N. Present: Helen, Rickard, Brian, Jerry and Ron. Photo taken by cj. The first leg was offshore from Vernadsky Base, Antarctica, March 18 2008. Latitude [...]

Celebrating Four Years

An even longer while since I was last spotted here, but I couldn’t miss marking today, as it’s the fourth anniversary of Cim receiving a kidney from her brother. I’m just really happy that we’ve had our lives changed immeasurably by Jonas’ generosity and I hope he enjoys  the whisky we’ve had secreted in the [...]

Time and Media move on

Six weeks since our last posting. I think partly because of the blogger’s reluctance to overwrite an attention-grabbing post (our visit to Number 10.) I suppose the only thing to do is do more interesting stuff. One such possibility nearly occurred when The Guardian expressed an interest to The Transplant Trust in interviewing someone on [...]

The steps of Number 10 Downing Street

Cim and Jerry on the steps Originally uploaded by maltjerry A quick taster from the photos taken outside Number 10 yesterday. We were invited to a reception at Number 10 Downing Street by Sararh Brown, wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The occasion was the launch of The Transplant Trust and its social networking site [...]

National Transplant Week Launch

Well, that went very well, even if I say so myself. From our point of view, anyway. We were in Covent Garden yesterday evening (Tuesday 8 July), at the launch of 2008 National Transplant Week. We met several of the upper echelon of Transplants in Mind as well as some of the people who give [...]

Cim strictly dancing

Cim strictly dancing Originally uploaded by maltjerry So, this is how you blog from flickr…