click

goes the year counter

Hopefully the next one won't be quite so shit. The phrase wishful thinking
comes to mind.

I've been cheering myself up by imagining that I am wearing a yellow badge
with the number 46 printed on it. Whereupon, a certain Italian gentleman
comes along looking for a ride...yes, yes, wishfuckingful thinking again

 

Indeed. Hippy Barfday or somesuch.

 

<g>

Happy Birthday.

 

Happy Birthday, you peculiar hobbit.

 

Here, have a whimsical greeting I prepared earlier:

Many happy red terns: ^o^ ^o^ ^o^ ^o^ ^o^ ^o^

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Shove a pillow over it, you won't hear it.

I'm in favour of wishful thinking. Better a happy imagination than
dreary pessimism. I am turning into the sort of Shiny Happy person
that previous versions of myself would want to hunt down and kill.
However I'm older and wiser and sneakier than they are so they'll
never catch me.

Aw bless. Look, you've got him all excited, he's spurting everywhere.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/03/26/1881087.htm

 

Bit part in The Prisoner?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

thanks for the good wishes

 

I haven't. The sprog didn't post a card. Maybe he will appear in person and
take me out. It's about time he started, now that he's 18.

Things are improving. Big sister just dropped off a card and a decent
bottle of Navarra red.

I would've gone to my local jazz club tonight. This month they have moved
to a new venue and changed it to Sundays. Fuckers.

Staying in tonight, with the Navarra and my friends on the internet, looks
favourite.

 

you sad, lonely little man.

 

I knew I could rely on you, young TOGawan.

 

Unless they build a time machine...

 

I don't usually do this, but - Happy Birthday.

 

Young whippersnapper!

<whoosh!>

 

Why thankyou.

 

I tried Virgin when they started. I wasn't impressed. They were taken
over by the parent company of Laithwaites a while back. They might be
okay now.

Looking at their website, it still has the same style I disliked before.
For example, they describe a French wine as "Kiwi style Sauvignon" but
fail to mention where it comes from other than "Loire". No mention if it
is AC or VdP. For 9 quid a bottle I expect a French wine to taste, well
French, rather than copying a generic style from the southern
hemisphere.

Their recommendation thing is a bit shit, too. "If you like this white
wine then you will love this Merlot or this Shiraz"
http://snipurl.com/414hx [www_virginwines_com]

The Laithwaites style of marketing suits me better. They seem to
describe exactly what you are getting, often with a bit of a story about
the winemaker. I like that provenance.

As far as the Virgin vouchers are concerned, everyone seems to give them
away and I think the website sets its prices accordingly.

Good oh.

The other site has some vouchers for Laithwaites - minimum spend of
£69.99 though
http://www.hotukdeals.com/all/vouchers/new?expired=false&mf=213

Although, you might want to blag this deal. It says for Halifax card
holders only. Should work for other brands and they will probably ignore
that it is supposed to be an introductory offer, too.
http://snipurl.com/414rl [www_laithwaites_co_uk]

If you want to order something else then use one of the £25 codes and
order this case http://snipurl.com/414z4 [www_laithwaites_co_uk] You
said you know nothing of Italian wines. Let that mixed case educate your
palate.

 

I went through a stage of being fussy & rarely spending fewer than 10
quid on a bottle, but I've now sunk happily into a life of Stowells
Tempranillo from Asda at 12 quid a box. It ain't the greatest, but it's
far better than it should be at that price.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
Off-Road Classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

No. A pleasant dinner, a few phone calls and just about to finsh that
bottle of Navarra with a wedge of stilton, whilst watching NMtB on iplayer

That URL must have something unique to your account tagged on. Comes up as
a 500 error. Truncated to
http://www.virginwines.com/product/prod_case_details.jsp?PRODUCT<%
3Eprd_id=845524442982729 it works

Looks okay but I wouldn't pay 90 quid for it

You don't order the right stuff Once this okayish Navarra has gone I
think I might have a couple of glasses of '03 claret, Château Grand Saint
André, before retiring to bed. It's lovely.

 

you can take the boy out of Swindon...

 

That's pretty much why I've not ordered anything from them since last
year. Not had any post from them for a while[1] but sometimes it was 2
or 3 a week which with the fortnightly paper collection meant that
around 1/3 was laithwaits bumf.

Nipped out here http://www.lurgashall.co.uk/ and bought a mixed case a
couple of weeks back. Strangely the new bottles are only 0.5l, sales
bod said it was because the french were moaning about stuff they
didn't regard as wine being sold in wine bottles - sounded like bollox
to me.

[1] I expect postman pat to stagger up the drive later now clutching a
load of laithwaits envelopes.