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(This post has been amended to contain the decisions taken below.)

At 6½pm on Wednesday 4^th January 2017 a few of us are to meet at the B&F for an emergency.

Theme: Bring a Blind Bottle.

People:

1. JDAW;
2. CPR;
3. IDJ;
4. TC.

Current drafts of the placemats.

I’m available for an Emergency, on any day from Fri 30 Dec 2016 to Thu 05 Jan 2017 inclusive.

When a date is decided the thread title will be changed.

Wed 4th would work for me

Friday 30th is my only available date.

I can't make the 30th as it's my daughter's birthday but barring 31st ok for all other dates.

It seems that availability is maximised by it being Wed 04 Jan 2017. The Green Room has been booked.

Sorry Cookie — not you.

Theme?

jdaw1 wrote:It seems that availability is maximised by it being Wed 04 Jan 2017. The Green Room has been booked.

Sorry Cookie — not you.

Theme?

Predictable I know but 'from a year ending in a 7'? I would suggest that this excludes shippers earmarked for the tasting on 1 February (albeit this is large formats). Other than that a simple bring a bottle.

If BaB, blind or sighted?

I should be OK for the 4th...

I suggest as it is a small group a simple bring a blind bottle!

CPR 1 wrote:I suggest as it is a small group a simple bring a blind bottle!

First post updated with theme and placemats.

I hope that you can find in your hearts the generosity of spirit, perhaps appropriate to the season, to forgive a likely breach of protocol: there is a risk that, in an abject failure to understand the nearness of the limit of the Peano axioms, I might bring two. Mercy of the Court, etc.

Edit: AHB added to the placemats. He hasn’t yet said that he can come. Indeed, he’s certainly unavailable. But he might yet become available.

jdaw1 wrote:

CPR 1 wrote:I suggest as it is a small group a simple bring a blind bottle!

First post updated with theme and placemats.

I hope that you can find in your hearts the generosity of spirit, perhaps appropriate to the season, to forgive a likely breach of protocol: there is a risk that, in an abject failure to understand the nearness of the limit of the Peano axioms, I might bring two. Mercy of the Court, etc.

Edit: AHB added to the placemats. He hasn’t yet said that he can come. Indeed, he’s certainly unavailable. But he might yet become available.

I am unavailable and unlikely to be there. However, life brings many surprises.

AHB wrote:I am unavailable and unlikely to be there.

I’ll remove you from the placemats.

AHB wrote:However, life brings many surprises.

I’ll keep you on the placemats. (Should I add you to the first post, so that your place is safe against a sudden influx of people?)

I have printed, sans AHB.

A Happy New Year to all!

My bottle for this evening was decanted at 7am and I'm hopeful that it will taste as good as it looked. Should be there by about 6.30pm.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Sandeman (Oporto bottled) (JDAW One);
• 1970 Sandeman (Wine Society bottling) (JDAW Two);
• 1970 Sandeman (Oporto bottled) (CPR);
• 1970 Graham (IDJ);
• 1967 Krohn (TC);
• The placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.