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I spoke with Andrew, the new manager earlier today. He is not on duty tomorrow, so unless Alex and Derek have introduced themselves tonight it seems we will not meet. He did however confirm I can drop off a bottle from 8.30am tomorrow. Which I will do! We have now met Andrew so our TCP network is w...

I spoke with Andrew, the new manager earlier today. He is not on duty tomorrow, so unless Alex and Derek have introduced themselves tonight it seems we will not meet. He did however confirm I can drop off a bottle from 8.30am tomorrow. Which I will do! We have now met Andrew so our TCP network is w...

I think that I should gently correct Derek. This is an early start to the "After Cricket Port Offline". The intention is that we will keep going until after the cricket, pausing only to watch the cricket or to let the TCP staff clean The Crusting Pipe around us. Not entirely true. I have ...

I spoke with Andrew, the new manager earlier today. He is not on duty tomorrow, so unless Alex and Derek have introduced themselves tonight it seems we will not meet.

He did however confirm I can drop off a bottle from 8.30am tomorrow. Which I will do!

I have printed and they look wonderful. I like the topical in-filling of the principal lettering. New Zealand 3, England 2. Excellent. Thanks Derek If 3-2 was a reference to possible score. they cannot now be accurate! at 1-1 with 1 game lost it cannot be 3-2! You're on the wrong tracks again, Ben....

I have printed and they look wonderful. I like the topical in-filling of the principal lettering. New Zealand 3, England 2. Excellent. Thanks Derek If 3-2 was a reference to possible score. they cannot now be accurate! at 1-1 with 1 game lost it cannot be 3-2! On the upside, the weather forecast fo...

Your first :tpf: off-line on Wednesday night :lol: Depends on how pedantic you want to be! My first off-line was technically 10th April although I had never heard of TPF at that point so you could argue it did not count. In which case, 25th June will be my first. The long range forecast for Wednesd...

Beautiful pictures. I hope to go there sometime soon. I must warn you that there were millions of midgets hanging around in the car park at the foot of the mountain :shock: :lol: Derek Did you mean midgets? Was there a convention of them? Or was it their airbornes cousins the midges?! Ben, go back ...

DRT wrote:

RonnieRoots wrote:Beautiful pictures. I hope to go there sometime soon.

I must warn you that there were millions of midgets hanging around in the car park at the foot of the mountain
Derek

Did you mean midgets? Was there a convention of them? Or was it their airbornes cousins the midges?!

So we now seem to have: :tpf: Ambassador for Music and the Arts - AHB :tpf: Ambassador for Sport - BR :tpf: Ambassador for High Altitude Pursuits - DRT Excellent. Can I suggest we add: :tpf: Ambassadors to the Middle East - Lord & Lady Roots :tpf: Ambassador to the former western colonies - JDA...

Bland, I agree. I had it a few weeks ago and had I not seen the label, I might have guessed it was a ruby :roll:. As Derek suggests, it does get better when chilled a bit. I don't think it would by an LBV from Taylor again. I rather buy a good ruby at a price less tha this LBV or e.g. an unfiltered...

AHB wrote:...and I'll take care of the forumites' cultural needs (the Chamber Concert was very enjoyable).

Alex

Remember that culture extends beyond music to sport as well! I hereby offer to help with that element!

DRT wrote:

KillerB wrote: What the hell happened at the end of that game?

No idea - I only just realised that it was Turkey playing - I thought it was Russia

watching the penalties live on the web!

jdaw1 wrote:

benread wrote:You are too kind! Have started on the Taylors LBV - 2002 (Bottled in 2007)

Tell me about the Fonseca LBV and a fresh two-glass placemat can appear.

Will follow a little later - I promise!

Opened and tasted with no decanting time. This is described as "Bottled in 2007 by Quinta and Vineyard Bottlers, Vinhos SA, Oporto". Not much nose. Very dark ruby red colour. Pleasant enough to drink but nothing exciting. The bottle will get finished though! It will be interesrting to see ...

Two bottles should last you till then. If you manage to delete three in eleven hours we'd be really impressed. Don’t eat though: food makes you sleepy. All calories from port — that’s the :tpf: dieter’s motto. [Drink your current rank: that’ll be enough.] You are too kind! Have started on the Tayl...

jdaw1 wrote: Hurray for Ben being about to drink as much as the New Yorkers.

Just worried about getting up for 8am rugby between England and New Zealand - in the pub!

Should I open the Taylors LBV of my status or the Fonseca LBV (unfiltered) that I acquired in expectation of still being of the previous standing? The latter does of course appeal more.

In which case I would need to seek authority from the powers that be!

DRT wrote:I just had dinner with son, parents and sister & b.i.l - we had chinese, which will not help the V94

2 hrs chit-chat and watching footie then I should be swigging port alone

But will your focus be TPF or Facebook tonight? Pimping or Port?!

Quite right! And I've just remembered that my shirt was made in Italy. And the bloke standing next to me is Scottish. How many countries have I got left? The full list includes Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia ...

AHB wrote:Now you're just being silly.

However, the barman tells me that the stool I am sitting on came from Ikea...

These comments are posted in "Meaningless Drivel". Would anything but be acceptable here?!

AHB wrote:A pint of Bulmers that was brewed in England

Can you get a clean sweep of EU states? Where was the seat made? Who is the host nation for the football?......

AHB wrote:I'm currently sitting in an Irish pub, in France, working for a German company whilst supporting Portugal.

Am I getting the hang of this Euro 2008 thing?

What are you drinking?!

me too. Maybe one day we should organise a children of 1970 drink their birth year offline! There is at least one other child of 1970 lurking here. How many more i wonder and in which country?

I am sure you would have lots of willing friends if you suggested bringing one of these to an offline!

Are you by any chance also a child of 1970?!