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Sorry, I meant after, not before the miners' strike.

It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

DRT wrote:PS: On the first point, there were far fewer well-publicised disputes in the 1980s than there are whisky casks in the SMWS database.

True; it is not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more. (cue; 'What's Owen on about?')

The curry has me stumped.
Chicken you say? Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

Agreed. Not your turn.

(Enter Skippy)

'What's that Skippy? Daniel is stuck down a mine and wants to enter the following guess? And the guess is that Derek was working at GCHQ at the time and had a simple Balti?'

So now Daniel has had a go I guess it's my turn?

LGTrotter wrote:So now Daniel has had a go I guess it's my turn?

G'day Skip. No.

Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.

LGTrotter wrote:Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.

Only if you were stuck down a well.

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.

Only if you were stuck down a well.

OK; I get the message. Shame really because I have been working on several scenarios where Daniel guesses via the medium of B-list tv shows. My current favourite is where he reprises Todd Carty's role in 'Tuckers Luck' the overlooked 'Grange Hill' spin off.

LGTrotter wrote:Todd Carty's role in 'Tuckers Luck' the overlooked 'Grange Hill' spin off.

Oh dear.

Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.

Night.

No clue regarding the strike, but perhaps butter chicken for lunch?

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Glenn E. wrote:butter chicken

No.

Gentlemen.

Forgive me for being asleep last night while you two were trapped down a mine with a talking kangaroo.

May I recap?

You say this strike was in 82 / 82 but you say it was after the Miners' Strike? That was in 84 / 85. Clarification please.

I have consulted a former member of the FDA, who remembers this as a strike in which FDA members, unusually, took part. He does not remember what it was about particularly; pay, but conditions also, and the pay structure. Something to do with overtime perhaps?

It was obviously a Chicken Biryani.

Chicken Korma and an overtime ban.

Actually, an overtime ban wouldn't have affected FDA staff.. I wonder if it was a government failure to implement a pay agreement?

And a chicken tandoori (sorry Owen, stole your guess).

Hmmm....a quick bit of googling does not seem to have been particularly illuminating. However, i did find a useful civil service trade union "family tree" that shows what exactly existed back in 82...perhaps more specific searches based on this will help.

Korma as the curry.

The main union to google out of that lot is the CPSA (Civil and Public Services Association), I think... They were certainly on strike around then...

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

Agreed. Not your turn.

Now can this be reconsidered?

LGTrotter wrote:

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

Agreed. Not your turn.

Now can this be reconsidered?

Too late. I already stole the second half of that guess.

djewesbury wrote:Too late. I already stole the second half of that guess.

Not a problem; his total guess (including both halves) is still new and now, valid (and sometimes they're not even new!)

Chicken Dhansak; striking for more staff.

Chicken Kashmiri; striking because you wouldn't cross a picket line

PhilW wrote:Not a problem; his total guess (including both halves) is still new and now, valid (and sometimes they're not even new!)

Thanks for the support Phil (and anyone who can get stuck down a mine and be mistaken for Todd Carty in one night...)

Lots of permutations to consider from the above guesses.

Chicken Korma was obviously the first-timer curry. I have never ordered it since that day but it opened a door.

The industrial dispute has been mentioned, but not in a way that Maggie would allow me to deem legally permissible.

Chicken Korma and a "work to rule" i.e. you'd done your contracted hours already (either stopping in support of colleagues or because overtime was banned).

Derek is clearly trying to kill this thread. I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)

(And I don't know about you, but I still have Clause (iv) of Rule 27.3 printed on the back of my membership card.)

Derek is trying to create a schism by introducing such a question whose essence still burns bright.

djewesbury wrote: I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)

Surely this can only be invoked with the express authority of 2/3 of those with A shares and a simple majority of those with B shares? As set out in the accompanying notes.

LGTrotter wrote:Derek is trying to create a schism by introducing such a question whose essence still burns bright.

djewesbury wrote: I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)

Surely this can only be invoked with the express authority of 2/3 of those with A shares and a simple majority of those with B shares? As set out in the accompanying notes.

All B shares and 40% of A shares are now owned by George Osborne. He votes yes.

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

DRT wrote:The industrial dispute has been mentioned, but not in a way that Maggie would allow me to deem legally permissible.

The capitalist running dog!

Is that a guess?

Kinda.

Nurses' strike and Korma is the answer.

Owen's turn.

DRT wrote:Nurses' strike and Korma is the answer.

Owen's turn.

As I was warned by Mao; paper tigers.

I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

There are many clues available, shall we begin with it being published in the fifties? Yes we shall.

André Simon's "Wines of the World"

AW77 wrote:André Simon's "Wines of the World"

No, but the author knew him and hung out with him at the Saintsbury club.

And I should add that this is where I found the quote about old wines denying us the fulll bottle.

LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?

No. Go ahead. Fill your boots.

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?

No. Go ahead. Fill your boots.

In point of fact I chose this question in part because of this. I shall lure you back somehow.

G'wan, you so want it!

LGTrotter wrote:I shall lure you back somehow.

My absence is not due to lack of enthusiasm. It is purely down to my employer's ridiculous expectation that I have to work for the money I spend on Port. Pah!


Reminiscences of a Vintner by Ian Maxwell Campbell (1950)?

Love it! No. The really exciting thing is that I just typed the title into your search engine and it came back with... Nothing!
Sorry 'bout work an all.

And he claims to have foxed all his friends in the inter war years with a 1923 Rebello Valente! The crazy fool!

LGTrotter wrote:The really exciting thing is that I just typed the title into your search engine and it came back with... Nothing!

That is extremely helpful.

My other half and the woman who delivers the mail have convinced themselves that there are no more books for me to buy. They are clearly deluding themselves.

I await the answer whilst hovering over my amazon bookmark.

He's a big name, you're gonna kick yourself and wonder how you coped without it...

{hang-head-in-shame}

DRT wrote:{hang-head-in-shame}

Pas de tout, that list of wine books contains so many which I have not come to, but I know of them due to your dilligence (been drinking again), Bravo!

LGTrotter wrote:

DRT wrote:{hang-head-in-shame}

Pas de tout, that list of wine books contains so many which I have not come to, but I know of them due to your dilligence (been drinking again), Bravo!

But this question is a small example of the experience of portvintages.com. Start with what is commonly known; do lots of work to plug the gaps; publish; receive feedback "why didn't you include these fifteen that I have?".

You catch me in philosophical mood (tea-towel variety only, I have been drinking);

I hope you do it because you love it. It is enough to have started a work, one can never hope to complete it. Because you are probably the best man for the job. It is better to have loved and to have lost than to have paid for it and not liked it. As Mr somebody, the author of 'All the information about port' will write in his introduction in 2046 'I should like to thank Mr Turnbull without whose tireless industry...'. If we have seen further it is only because we have stood on the shoulders of giants.

Cricket's on Derek. Aggers an' all.