>Sartorially challenged

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Stuart Piggot is a British wine critic and author.

His 5 Commandments

  1. A wine is as good or bad as it tastes and smells to you.
  2. For wine, there is no connection between price and quality.
  3. Wine is not nearly so complicated or delicate as generally assumed.
  4. There are no wrong words to describe wine.
  5. There is only one error that is possible to make in connection with wine: to ruin other people’s pleasure.

are spot on, as is his oenological judgement.

And anyone who rates my mate Jürgen Hofmann is OK by me.
But his dress sense – even taking his ethic background into consideration – is cause for concern.
It looks very much as if he”s a disciple of the Stevie Wonder method of attire selection, being “Close your eyes and put on the first thing you come across in the wardrobe”
(Except that Stevie Wonder didn’t need to close his eyes..)
Or as Mrs jb put it so succinctly:
“He can’t SERIOUSLY expect me to trust his judgement if he wears a jacket like that? (And where ON EARTH was his wife…?)”
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>A good year

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Book by Peter Mayle, film with Russell Crowe, vineyard and wine by Nathalie Mangan of Chateau La Canorgue in Bonnieux.

Been buying there for years

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>Good for the garden….

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>The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

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I know this to be true

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>This is overdoing things…

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I’m all for a healthy work:life balance (there was no such thing at senior management levels in the Lufthansa Group – the head of Executive HR once told a group of us that it was “an honour to work for the company in that capacity….” yeah, right….), but Jay Farnsworth at Red Gallery in Nelson is taking things to extremes.

It’s mid-November.
The sun is shining.
It’s 20 degrees.
It’s Saturday.
It’s not summer.

The Summer Solstice in Nelson is on 21 December, the first Saturday after which is Boxing Day and then there’s the Big Sucking Noise and all businesses close for 3 weeks, so theoretically we’ll get our first Saturday coffee there on 16 January 2010.

Unless astronomy works differently in Nelson and they declare summer to start on a random date, which would surprise me not one bit….

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>The new Herr Schwarz

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Popped into Caffee Moguntia and was a bit miffed at the absence of my
mate Hans-Josef Schwarz who drives the espresso machines with great skill.

Appears that he’s been traded in for this chappy.

At least they got the colour right….

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>Wrong

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And you all thought that it’s a legal requirement that German wine labels have to feature angels, cherubs et al….

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>My friend the artist

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I have a friend who’s a seriously famous artist in New Zealand and who is profoundly deaf.

“It’s better that it’s me and not my kids” she says.

She was reading a wine bottle label the other day without glasses (I can barely discern whether it’s even a BOTTLE without my specs..) and I commended her on her eyesight.

“Oh no” she said “I wear contacts“

Continues:

“I thought that if I had to wear glasses on top of being deaf, I might just as well have dentures and a wooden leg too….”

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>So I succumbed….

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…and bought an iPhone.

Mrs jb mentions this to a friend.

"What's an iPhone?" she asks.

In exactly which timewarp do these people live?

Are they aware that homo sapiens has discovered fire?

And invented the wheel…?

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>Burning the midnight oil

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Qantas Economy cabin at night.

Spooky…..

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