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I have had it reported to me that St Helens is to the north of the Rivers Thames and Severn. That being the case I doubt I will be able to make it. Believe it or not, its easier for me to get a pass for a trip to Seattle than it is to get a pass to travel to St Helens!

Alex

I spoke to Roy over the weekend about many things - and shared some extremely fine ports with him and his other guests. Roy is very relaxed about this forum and visits it from time to time. As he explained it to me, he sees the "audience" for this forum to be very different to that of FTLO...

I'm in as well. I'd prefer the 19th as I'm trying to blag myself an invite to the Twenty20 Quarter Finals on the 18th but if the 18th is the only day that works for everyone then I'll just turn up late. Theme for the evening is Port. I might be able to manage to find something suitable but I'll have...

I heard a possible alternative explanation for the "new" Symingtons name being used for the supply of port to BOB from Mario Ferreira yesterday. As he explained it to me, the "One third" rule is still rigidly enforced on port producers in the Douro. This means that for every litr...

None of the above - I'm just slightly more flippant and significantly less serious before I have anything to drink. Like when I wrote that previous post. As Derek and Al-K can testify, I cannot drink a great deal and start to be the worse for wear after a few sniffs of port, let alone glasses. Gotta...

Alex - if you post another message then I will upgrade you... The Creator What, you mean no need to bring you that bottle of Croft 1945 that I have taken out of my cellar? You'll upgrade me without me bringing you that bottle of Quinta do Noval 1931? Just for posting one more message? I'm not sure ...

On those occasions when I am drinking at home on my own and open 5 or 6 bottles of port I do find that Julian's tasting mats are extremely helpful.

For some reason, I otherwise find that I start to lose track of which glass holds which wine towards the end of these evenings....



Al-B

I thought I'd look for the Bishop of Norwich, someone who knows the Bishop of Norwich and also take my pet dog (actually, cat since I don't have a dog - but I can call the cat Toto if it helps). I haven't decided on the third person but will happily consider any helpful suggestions. To help solicit ...

I moved two weeks ago from a house close to a small river and in the flood plain of the small river to a new house up on a hill overlooking the same floodplain of the same small river. I am feeling very smug and have offered to get my inflatable beach boat out of my new garage to help out my former ...

Hi Alex, We all had to do the walk of shame. Best thing is to close your nose, take a deep breath and produce 10 posts as quick as you can. It'll leave a nasty aftertaste for a while, but you have plenty of time to wash that away with some 'cheap ruby'. Now I've been thinking about this and I've de...

You can call me what you like - apart from Cruz Ruby! Thanks for the link to the previous discussion on this. An interesting read. The folks on this forum are currently rather prolific in the number of messages being posted and I can't currently keep up. I have about 40 minutes of time spare right n...

How was it possible to get 156 users on the site at the same time on Monday June 25th? Look at the statistics on the index page.

Alex

(Again, remember that you are only imagining that you are reading this as Al-K has not yet upgraded my status.)

It would make sense that I've not posted on this site before. I've been working my butt off the last few days and have had extremely limited access to the internet (this particular wireless connection has 5 minutes left before I run out of credit) so no-one has seen much of me at all. And if you guy...

I resent being Cruz Ruby!

In protest, I will not post again until I am elevated to an improved status

Alex

And coming back to the original point, there's always the option to sell them on ebay - but rarely does anyone buy them. I must confess that I have one of each on my wall as decoration and the rest have been scattered around the garden with plant names written on the back in indelible ink. There the...

I've registered (again). I think that was the third time I've registered and can't post without registering again!!! Never mind, you can't get too much of a good thing. You won't see a great deal of me for a while as I'm working and travelling (and drinking port) a lot over the next couple of weeks ...