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59?

KillerB wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:It was at Ocado.com, but in clicking on the same link today their price is now just £3.57 for a 12-pack. I wonder what I was looking at yesterday?

72?

Ooops - wrong direction, but you have now established the limiting factor. That price is more like it.

KillerB wrote:Not 60 but the limiting factor is now in place and not 71 as that is not bound by it.

I must not be understanding what you mean by the limiting factor, then.

However, that does present one more interesting possibility... perhaps the limiting factor is the low end. So lets try 6 pouches per day per cat, minus one meal on Sunday. That'd be 80 pouches.

All of the last few guesses have been too high.

A previous guess of two possibles was said to be close, the wrong one was chosen, apart from once. The 'moving further away' was misleading (sorry), it was moving further away from the last closest guess, not all the rubbishly high ones. My cats are of large breeds but one is old and the other is a girl, so they are not gluttons.

46

48

Ah, okay.

Well then I suspect that Derek has nailed it, but just in case I'll take 47.

DRT wrote:48

Correct, Columbo eats the standard 3 per day, as he's getting on a bit, actually it maybe a little less now. Maya eats 4 per day, actually it maybe a little more now, giving a total of 7 per day. 7 * 7 is 49, but they come in boxes of 12, which I buy four of per week = 48. Sunday is when I do the shopping and that's when Maya gets a little insistent that I go out and do it as she's noticed the reduced amount on a Sunday morning. She's currently looking sated but I can't find Columbo; not sure when I last put food down.

Derek's on.

Name my favourite port.

(That you have tasted?)

Fonseca 1966?

Correct - objective acheived - I couldn't think of a decent question and I knew I could rely on the Honourable Member from Paris to know the answer.

JDAW's up.

What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

jdaw1 wrote:What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

Have a glass of Port.

Derek's question too easy.

No.

jdaw1 wrote:No.

I think you should go away into a dark corner and think about what you've just said and where you said it. When you've learned the error of your ways you can come back and apologise to everybody individually. Now off you go.

KillerB wrote:Derek's question too easy.

Intentionally so.

jdaw1 wrote:What task do I want to do next? (This excludes any necessary spells of child-minding.)

Clue: I am in England.

Drink beer?

Have a bottle of port?

I apologise unreservedly, completely, and from the bottom of my heart for having a port-related task to do before drinking a glass of port. (That was a clue.)

There is another clue available, but not in this thread.

Collect a case of Dow 1970?

Decant a bottle of Dow 1970?

Tong a bottle of dow 1970?

You found the thread, but the task involved more than ‘just’ the D70.

Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

DRT wrote:Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

and then open one to share with said father.

DRT wrote:Go to Bonham's - collect various cases and bottles of port - take to father's cellar?

Close, but not close enough.

E.g., Bonhams (no apostrophe!) delivered.

Go to father's house to tidy up recent deliveries to his cellar, open a nice bottle of port to share with father and thereby earn sufficient brownie points to allow continued use of cellar with minimum of complaining?

Correct. DRT is up.

DRT’s question is as follows (we have discussed it).

In 1907 Berry Bros’ catalogues had port near the front. Some time in the twentieth century this format was reversed, port going to the back. What was the date of the first port-at-back catalogue, to within ±3 months?

September 1947 - when the 1945 wines were first released

AHB wrote:September 1947 - when the 1945 wines were first released

No.

Really tough question... Google isn't even helpful. So without clues (higher/lower) I'd just be pissing in the wind.

OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.

DRT wrote:OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.

Really? Interesting.

It may not be relevant, but I'll go with the release of the 1975 Ports - September 1977.

Glenn E. wrote:

DRT wrote:OK - AHBs guess is too far in the past.

Really? Interesting.

It may not be relevant, but I'll go with the release of the 1975 Ports - September 1977.

For no reason at all I'm going to quote The Four Seasons: December '63

January 1970

Not 63, 70 or 77. It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

September '68?

DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

Glenn E. wrote:September '68?

¿!?

October 1955

Not 1955 an, unsurprisingly, not 1968.

This happened within the lifetime of almost everyone who frequents this place.

Even Jacob? October 1994

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

Glenn E. wrote:September '68?

¿!?

September 1968 would have been the English release of the generally declared 1966 vintage, would it not?

September 1996?

Glenn E. wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:It is interesting that you have all gone for declared vintages, which is the right thing to do.

Glenn E. wrote:September '68?

¿!?

September 1968 would have been the English release of the generally declared 1966 vintage, would it not?

But that doesn't change the fact that a catalogue from 1968 is not from what is recognised as a declared vintage

Glenn E. wrote:September 1996?

At last I can say "too young!" (and you seem to be missing the point of the clue about the catalogue being from a declared vintage )

September 1985

KillerB wrote:Even Jacob? October 1994

Too young. Jacob is one of the reasons why the word "almost" appears in the clue - although I have to admit that I do not know when Jacob was born.

January 1975

RonnieRoots wrote:September 1985

Too young.

AHB wrote:January 1975

Too old.

July 1980

KillerB wrote:July 1980

Too old, but correct month.