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PhilW wrote:

[b][i]Lord Flashheart[/i][/b] wrote:Haha.

All you missed was the exclamation mark

I like it! I had not thought of editing the quote to adapt the name...

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:And as I write this I realise I have left both corks wrapped in clingfilm on the kitchen table - is that a serious crime or merely a schoolboy error?

Bringing the corks and leaving the bottles would have been a serious crime. Forgetting just the corks is a schoolboy error.

Haha.

Mission accomplished with the decanting of bottle #1 and bottle #2. One cork out 100% but with a half split near the bottom which I thought made it a little risky to put it back in. The other cork three quarters out with the remaining quarter in a million pieces. And as I write this I realise I have...

A return to the homeland...I could be tempted! Bit far away yet to know if the diary will accommodate. Will try and firm up one way or another a few weeks before the event.

RAYC wrote:If you are worried about the cork breaking, it is not a bad excuse to open a bottle of red wine for dinner this evening (and save the cork....)

Splendid idea!

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Could you please book it tomorrow?

If I remember. Do nudge me during the Bung Hole’s working hours.

Oh - thought I'd remind you of this also!

OK - need some advice from the masters... Have bottles standing, planning to decant in the morning and bring with me to work. Never taken a decanted bottle on a journey before, so once I've double decanted, can I just put the cork back in? What happens if the cork broke on the way out? Bung the bott...

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:I should maybe bring two bottles.

Two will suffice if they are both magnums.

We'll be cross-eyed at this rate...

Seeing as this will be the first time we have met, why not stick with blind and allow my contribution to be a surprise! The more I read on other posts the more I think I should maybe bring two bottles.

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:I’ve just notice that we are eight people, for whom a mere six bottles will be a woefully inadequate bagatelle. What should be done about this?

Beer.

More port

What sort of bottle are you thinking of bringing along? We often have a theme resembling ‟Bring A Bottle To Share”. Recent such events happened on 8 th January 2014 , 2 nd January 2014 , 28 th November 2013 , 31 st October 2013 , 8 th October 2013 , 2 nd October 2013 , 25 th September 2013 , and 1...

DRT wrote:Is your real name Barry Allen?

No nothing to do with DC Comics

No, Flashman the bully I am not. Nor the victim of a lightning strike, a firestarter or a fireworks engineer.

DRT wrote:Are you a photogropher?

No. My wife is a good photographer though.

PhilW wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Nope
But I do get the Flashheart-isms also, in fact one or two friends have adapted the moniker and do use Flashheart with me.

Do your clothes keep falling off?

Not that.

I do often get the Flash Gordon-isms, but my "flash" moniker has a different origin...you have until Tuesday evening to guess it, at which point I can share the history :-) Did your mother make you wash a checker-board kitchen floor as a child? Thankfully not that. Otherwise I would have ...

Nope
But I do get the Flashheart-isms also, in fact one or two friends have adapted the moniker and do use Flashheart with me.

Exactly!

So everyone coming to this session is right-handed. Using Tommy Cooper-think, if a couple more people sign up, one of them will be left-handed.

I do often get the Flash Gordon-isms, but my "flash" moniker has a different origin...you have until Tuesday evening to guess it, at which point I can share the history

What sort of bottle are you thinking of bringing along?

My wife and kids are away Monday and Tuesday night so it would be madness to pass up the opportunity!

Aha. Real world would be MPM (Mike Patrick Meehan). Right-handed.

Thank you very much. Seeing my name at the top in the list, I probably should have thought about how my board username would translate into a three letter acronym

Would there be room for one more, which would be my first appearance at a tasting? Would be great to put faces to the names and posts!
Best
Flash / Mike

Back in action again
Good work by DRT to recover my first rambling post!