Yes, it’s lovely, but all that symmetry makes me very nervous. One piece of furniture, set at an angle, and your house falls down.

Gothic Revival is my guilty pleasure — I love it. It’s a pointless mish-mash of the Gothic architectural vocabulary (plus a few other styles), garishly painted like a happy harlot, tall, pointy, shiny, gloomy, morose, confusing... It all makes me insanely happy to walk through these great Victorian fantasies, almost…

And how you go, where you go, and what route you take to get there will be decided by.... someone else.

Once opened, all vermouth should be refrigerated. Even then, it seems to me that after two weeks the flavors start to deteriorate. My local store has half-bottles of Antica, which I can use up in less than two weeks. A full-sized bottle, not so much...