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jdaw1 wrote:Delivery has been taken of two bottles of the 1952 Graham Single Harvest Tawny. Doff hat in the direction of the Symingtons.

Most excellent; my thanks and appreciation also.

If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?

djewesbury wrote:If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?

I'm sure that G55 would be met with royal approval.

djewesbury wrote:If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?

Excellent. First post and placemats updated.

The stars have aligned and I'm in the country on this date.

Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?

RAYC wrote:Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?

Excellent news. First post edited: you have the fourteenth place. What will you bring?

i'll bring something appropriate to be advised!

do you mind if i have a week to work it out? supplies in my flat are low so it will require a trip to Big Yellow

Sadly it looks like I can no longer make this. Something might shift and make it possible again nearer the time, but right now it is not possible. Stick me on the reserves and if things change then I can advise.

RAYC wrote:do you mind if i have a week to work it out?

Splendid.

flash_uk wrote:Sadly it looks like I can no longer make this. Something might shift and make it possible again nearer the time, but right now it is not possible.

Not splendid.

To whom should I send my G55? Now would seem like a good time to send it to make sure it has time to rest.

djewesbury wrote:Now would seem like a good time to send it

Please, not in this heat. Wait for a cool week.

It is raining and cold here. I think the weather can be expected to fluctuate somewhat for the next few weeks. Cold here may be hot there and vice versa. Time is of the essence.

Time is not of the essence. Whole-journey cool is of the essence.

Shaken rather than boiled.

jdaw1 wrote:Time is not of the essence. Whole-journey cool is of the essence.

Shaken rather than boiled.

I appreciate your concerns but genuinely feel that if we wait for a window when it is forecast to be suitably cool, over three days*, in all parts of Her Germanic Majesty's wonderful queendom, we will be waiting a while. And who knows, we may get it wrong.

Can we solicit other opinions? I really do not want to be left bringing this with me - although we drank wonderful 1955s last June that had travelled but a couple of days before.

*ParcelForce's 48 hour service is, in fact, 72 hours from NI.

Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?

DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?

That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?

That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.

I have just sent you a Psychic message. I'll pick it up two weeks on Saturday.

DRT wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?

That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.

I have just sent you a Psychic message. I'll pick it up two weeks on Saturday.

Ouch! The psychic message just arrived!

DRT wrote:en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?

I've just come down from the Isle of Skye. I'm not very tall and i'm awfully shy....

Derek where's yer troosers?

I think you will find that one comes "doon fae the Isle o' Skye"

One bottle of G55 entrusted to Smashing Couriers.

Going where?

jdaw1 wrote:Going where?

Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow. Or a mystery location of their choice.

jdaw1 wrote:Going where?

Oh God please don't say it's going to Derek's holiday home on the bleak and empty Isle of Skye!

djewesbury wrote:Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow.

That's a relief. It may survive its journey.

AHB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Going where?

Oh God please don't say it's going to Derek's holiday home on the bleak and empty Isle of Skye!

djewesbury wrote:Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow.

That's a relief. It may survive its journey.

Apparently, the eagle has landed.