Port and literature

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21:00 would be ideal, especially in the week when that would allow me to read it at night, instead of the following morning.
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DRT wrote:It surprised me that a butler of Craven's experience would not know how many dozens of Ck08 remained in the bin. Perhaps that was the only way to introduce the cellar book as a suspect?
Surely that would depend on the volume of the cellar? He should be precise on entry and use, but especially without OWCs, remembering the available number of all bottles of all vintages off-hand might be ambitious.
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It's almost time...
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PhilW wrote:
DRT wrote:It surprised me that a butler of Craven's experience would not know how many dozens of Ck08 remained in the bin. Perhaps that was the only way to introduce the cellar book as a suspect?
Surely that would depend on the volume of the cellar? He should be precise on entry and use, but especially without OWCs, remembering the available number of all bottles of all vintages off-hand might be ambitious.
This is a man who has been managing a cellar for one man's drinking for four decades. He would know, just as he would know how many spoons needed to be polished by the kitchen maid each morning before she ate her gruel.
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PhilW wrote:It's almost time...
The time has come and gone. The projectionist is presumably sniffing meths again.
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Looks like we might have to make our own story tonight...
DRT wrote:... just as he would know how many spoons needed to be polished by the kitchen maid each morning before she ate her gruel.
Gruel? Every morning?! We were lucky if we had one bowl to share between ten of us, once a week!
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DRT wrote:It surprised me that a butler of Craven's experience would not know how many dozens of Ck08 remained in the bin. Perhaps that was the only way to introduce the cellar book as a suspect?
I always know exactly how many Dow 1908s are in my cellar.
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jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:It surprised me that a butler of Craven's experience would not know how many dozens of Ck08 remained in the bin. Perhaps that was the only way to introduce the cellar book as a suspect?
I always know exactly how many Dow 1908s are in my cellar.
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Calm down everyone. A healthy dose of suspense [government note: there is no safe level of suspense] never does you any harm [Chief Medical Officer: yes it does]

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Thank-you Daniel. I assume we have all correctly divined the true meaning of the question about the pond or stream? Of course, absurdly simple.
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I hope you don't get led too far astray Owen.
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I am now officially on the edge of my seat. I just can't think of any good explanation about the boy flying the kite. What is that all about?
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Yes. Good. Well done Derek.

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My breath is bated.
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Commendation for Daniel’s very good theatre.

And an excellent name for a wine merchant: Plummett and Rose.
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jdaw1 wrote:Commendation for Daniel’s very good theatre.

And an excellent name for a wine merchant: Plummett and Rose.
This and all like comments hitherto received I gratefully acknowledge and accept. It's a pleasure working with such an appreciative crowd.
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Surely it is only a matter of time before this wonderful adaptation of the author's work is properly recognised?
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Are you ready? I'm ready.
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Oh in that case…
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All ready here, but nothing to read...
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It's your time we're wasting.
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LGTrotter wrote:It's your time we're wasting.
Not at all. I'm watching Jake Chapman speak some of the most intelligent sentences yet heard on BBC TV, while I make a bolognese.

Now do you want to know what happens in the cellar or not?
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Oh go on then. You've been so good until now.

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Not far to go now. Still no news on whether the niece is mousey. Perhaps the port in question will prove to be the 1896. Look out for a tasting note similar to this;
AHB wrote:Pale in colour, a dull burnt sienna, and slightly cloudy. Hot on the nose, smelling slightly of burnt rubber. Oranges and citric acidity in the mouth with the acidity creating quite a lot of heat. Dry and mostly dried out but showing some citric fruit - think of biting into an unripe orange. Strange sensation of tannins. A huge burst of heat on swallowing, which takes a long time to fade but eventually settles into a long and delicious finish. 90/100. Drunk 29 June 2009.
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Will Mr. Egg be able to identify to which other stack of empties the rogue bottle belongs (either by smell, bottle-type, capsule or white-wash)?
Will the real bottle used for last night's drinking be found in the cellar or elsewhere?
Is the niece mousey?
Is Derek's breath still bated?
Only one man (and a lot of book stores, and libraries, and possibly websites, but never mind those) has the answer...
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