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Saturday 17th March 2007: again chez mon père, a 1985 horizontal, consisting mostly of houses new to me ( paperwork , more fancy-schmancy than that used the previous evening ). Notes are even briefer: my enthusiasm for note-taking had clearly diminished. Present: JDAW MAW RAW APPW JRW RKA JFH MF SRG...

What the wife could see.

Naughty girl took no notes! (Or at least, very few notes.)

Well, since people are being nice, I’ll post more. Bottles first. Cockburn 1908 revealing that it was bought at Sotheby’s New York (lot 1203, 20 May 2006). http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-c08.jpg Sold at auction as ‟Cockburn, believed 1950’s” (Bonham’s, lot 711 on 27 Sep 2005), though actu...

People: in the lower picture yours truly is pouring the water. http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-people-1.jpg http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-people-2.jpg Observe the colour of the ’08s in the decanters, and the cloudiness of the Taylor 1908 in the glass of the man far left, he being...

Eight of the eleven decanters.

Readers with better decanter labelling technology are invited to share it.

Cockburn 1927, Army & Navy stores.

Pictures from the Friday, which I shall break into several posts.

The Taylor’s Special Quinta 1950 was identifiable only from the capsule.

Friday 16th March 2007: chez mon père, a sesquivertical of Cockburn and Taylor ( paperwork ). Present: JDAW MAW RAW WDBP RKA JFH MF SRG , and sort-of SVW. A vertical of Cockburn, with some matching Taylor vintages, and some mystery bottles. Having had very little experience of Cockburn, this was edu...

Peter Eells Timothy Taylor & Co. Limited Knowle Spring Brewery Keighley West Yorkshire BD21 1AW 11th April 2007 Dear Mr Eells, Earlier this year I visited The York, a fine pub near Angel tube station in London, wherein, with a friend, I thoroughly enjoyed six pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord. A ...

Clean, simple, easy to read, high-contrast: fantastic.

Graphic designer gone mad and a pestilence on the users who we hate anyway: bad.

Shhhhh! Nobody had noticed.

Well, excellent. A pecking order has been established. My introduction thread has sixteen replies, not including this one. The introduction thread used by everybody else (Well, here we are), has a mere fourteen. Ha!

Actually, having this section machine readable would be a great joy in the future. And the time to work on that is now. • As for webmasterlyness, there’s no harm in a standing policy of you changing thread titles to conform to generally-accepted practice. Propose: Title = YYYY House, where House ∈ {...

Oh joy!

I recognise that my usual avatar makes me not-a-team-player type person. But, well, I can’t be bothered to locate a cat picture that speaks to me, or of me.

Or, when deleting one's own stuff, replace it with something like “[Mildly raunchy picture deleted on the suggestion of …]†. And perhaps leave in a link to the picture. And, to be emphatic, there’s nothing wrong with mischief. :-) Back to the main point: when I said My preference would be nothing. ...

KillerB wrote:Sod 'em, we're having avatars.

You’re not wrong.

Though you could have tighter size (width≤80, height≤60, bytes≤5k) restrictions. And ban moving avatars, which I think terrible. (Yes, I know I’m alone.)

Also, a thread on this subject on a different BB, FWLIW.

Blackberry is a fair comment. But making Blackberry users wait until the thing is loaded, before having to turn the page, is harder on them. Instead have a giant length, so the whole things loads whilst being read.

Another way of helping Blackberry users is not to have avatars.

Does decanting through muslin leave a taint of cotton dust? I’m pondering an experiment to be performed on a magnum of Noval 1963. Seal to be photographed and then removed, and the bottle left standing in the cellar. This allows things to settle after the bottle-shaking wax cutting. On tasting day, ...

Everyone has broadband. 100 my preference; 50 suggested as a compromise.

The phpBB default is that a thread turn the page at 15 posts. Please could that parameter be changed to 50. Fifteen so breaks the continuity of a conversation.

If I can't be given permission to reply to that thread, delete the whole thing. Sorry: bad idea.

Fantastic idea! Can we each supply our own? Bottled gases, Uruguayan bonds, Pension reform — each to his own alibi.