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I have obviously been a very good boy this year

• 18 bottles of Quinta do Madelena 1988 from Jo
• 2 x Reidel Vinum Port Glasses from the in-laws
• A pocket version of Braodbent's book, also from the in-laws but stollen from me by Jo a week ago when I got home from London after buying it for myself in BBR
• A bottle of Taylor's Select Reserve from my son, Ross
• A book "50 Great Curries of India" from Jo's son, Lewis
• Money from my Mum, Dad, Sister and Bro-in-law which has miraculously turned into 3 bottles of Dow 1980

I think they all know me well

Derek

Derek T. wrote:I have obviously been a very good boy this year

• 18 bottles of Quinta do Madelena 1988 from Jo
• 2 x Reidel Vinum Port Glasses from the in-laws
• A pocket version of Braodbent's book, also from the in-laws but stollen from me by Jo a week ago when I got home from London after buying it for myself in BBR
• A bottle of Taylor's Select Reserve from my son, Ross
• A book "50 Great Curries of India" from Jo's son, Lewis
• Money from my Mum, Dad, Sister and Bro-in-law which has miraculously turned into 3 bottles of Dow 1980

I think they all know me well

Derek

Can I have your family please?

KillerB wrote:

Derek T. wrote:I have obviously been a very good boy this year

• 18 bottles of Quinta do Madelena 1988 from Jo
• 2 x Reidel Vinum Port Glasses from the in-laws
• A pocket version of Braodbent's book, also from the in-laws but stollen from me by Jo a week ago when I got home from London after buying it for myself in BBR
• A bottle of Taylor's Select Reserve from my son, Ross
• A book "50 Great Curries of India" from Jo's son, Lewis
• Money from my Mum, Dad, Sister and Bro-in-law which has miraculously turned into 3 bottles of Dow 1980

I think they all know me well

Derek

Can I have your family please?

Ermmm? OK, I will loan them out to you for the week prior to your birthday each year

Derek

Happy birthday. I'm delighted to see from your tasting note that you have managed to guarantee yourself another 12 months of life.

That's also a great selection of birthday presents. Did your present from Lewis also include an introduction to the Ports of Goa and curries to cook to go with them?

Alex

AHB wrote:Happy birthday. I'm delighted to see from your tasting note that you have managed to guarantee yourself another 12 months of life.

That's also a great selection of birthday presents. Did your present from Lewis also include an introduction to the Ports of Goa and curries to cook to go with them?

Alex

Yes, no life insurance payments required for me this year

Here are a selection of the curries listed in the book Lewis gave me:

• Chicken Porto Masala
• Pop-a-port-a-doms and stilton dip
• Cockburn Special Reserve Bhuna

Al-K will be particularly interested in that last one.

Happy birthday.

3 weeks from now Its my birthday, I´m looking forward to see what i will get.

Happy Birthday! Some very nice presents indeed

Happy Birthday! Sounds like they got the theme right!

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I will be drinking the last of my bottle of Vargellas 65 this evening and I suppose that will be that for another year.

Derek

Derek

Ermmm? OK, I will loan them out to you for the week prior to your birthday each year

Derek

Adoption for current supply possible? I would make shure to come thirsty. Happy Birthday!

Michael

Belated happy birthday. I've been on wicked shifts over the weekend.

Not so sure you should have had the last Vargellas! Really you should have waited until your 60th which is just around the corner.

Alan

It was the last glass from the bottle. I still have 3 more bottles

What happens on the birthday four years from now? Will I have to change my avatar again?

jdaw1 wrote:What happens on the birthday four years from now? Will I have to change my avatar again?

I didn't know you had changed your Avatar this time. Did I miss something?

Fear not, I have 3 bottles of Vargellas 1965, 3 bottles of Fonseca Guimaraens 1965, 12 bottles of Graham Malvedos 1965 and 1 bottle of Dow Bomfim 1965 - so I have 19 more birthdays planned for and hopefully more bottles can be acquired in intervening years. Or, perhaps I should re-bottle some Malvedos into 375ml bottles to extend my planned birthdays by a few more years.

Derek

Derek T. wrote:I didn't know you had changed your Avatar this time. Did I miss something?

Kenny died.

jdaw1 wrote:

Derek T. wrote:I didn't know you had changed your Avatar this time. Did I miss something?

Kenny died.

Yes. I remember now. Thankfully a "who killed Derek?" version will not be required for some time.