Cocktail Update: Sbagliato and Jalisco Flower

Posted on 20/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

Ok, two of these posts in a row but it’s the holidays…

Sbagliato is a Negroni when you put sparking wine (in this case Blanquette de Limoux, see below) instead of gin. Sbagliato is Italian for “wrong”, but feels right at the mo.

The Jalisco Flower is tequila, elderflower, pink grapefruit and Blanquette again. Tastes nice, although I’m drinking the short red one myself.

Blanquette de Limoux is special because Susanna and I ordered a glass each by mistake when camping in rural Limoux sometime in the 90s, when we had very limited funds. We therefore had no dinner, but a good time anyway.

There was also a Twinkle1 earlier, but it went before I got a picture. Probably for the best.

  1. Vodka, elderflower and the Blanquette again. ↩︎
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Cocktail Update: Trilby

Posted on 17/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

There is actual physics going on my life but right now there is also this. Gin, crème de violette, red vermouth, orange & angostura bitters. Yum.

I’d would say it counts as a variation on the negroni, and you might say “What’s the point in varying perfection”. But it’s a good one, worth a try IMO.

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Bubble Chamber Breakthrough

Posted on 07/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday1. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home. We won the annual Bubble Chamber Football tournament (with a bit of help from some nuclear physics colleagues from Surrey and Liverpool).

Photo credit Will Quinn, who is in the grreen

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The future of particle physics, part 94

Posted on 06/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

A discussion on the future of particle physics is underway. When is it not, you might ask? And it is a good question, there is always something like this going on (hence the “part 94” in the title, which is a bit of a Private Eye in-joke). But this is a moment when the intensity of the discussion is rising.

Detail from from “A Map of the Invisible“
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