Goblin Business
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izmeinaNow that the Night Bus is not running for the next four weeks or so, ickle Izzie has to leave the Ministry at a respectable hour and walk home to the Lair and on the way pass the greedy goblins of the nasty netcafe. But on Tuesdays they let poor serpents and church mice and penurius studentish sorts get internet hours for the princely sum of $$2 rather than the usual $$3.50 And this week Izzie was able to grab some.
Last week, the grumpy grizzling bus driver who obviously HATES the job (and who Iz calls Argus Filch)was telling the Iz that some silly student had started a bomb scare. Iz asks if she just happens to have an exam in the building where the bomb was supposed to be. Sure enough she did. But a bunch of born again Islamic sorts on a conversion mission had also scheduled an evangelical event near this very same building on this very same evening. So the thing had to be taken seriously. But the silly twit will have learned her lesson. It would have been so much easier and cause less hassles to all concerned if she had spent her time and energies on studying her subjects rather than inventing ingenuous ways of avoiding exams.
Friday was another moment for the Goblins. Got the quarterly statement from the present owners of the Izzie lair and was so delighted to find that after what seemed like an eternity, Iz had finally crashed the seemingly insurmountable $$90,000 Wall of debt. But then again, would have been there so much sooner if we hadn't been cheating and redrawing funds to pay for trips to Middle Earth and Kuala Lumpur, for fees and auditing text books and all sorts of temptations.
It turned out to be the first quarterly period since 1998 where Iz had not taken out a single sickle for unrelated purposes.
So maybe will be able to get the Izzie paws on the title deeds by January 2008.
In the mean time - hardly three days later - Iz is once again yielding to temptation. Vernon and Petunia have their Ruby wedding anniversary on Friday and Iz was just not going to make it to next pay day and be able to get them something decent.
Booked a nice tasty lunchies for Friday and already acquired some bottlies for a picnic hamper. Iz needs advice from the resident Connoisseur of Red. We got one bottle each of Penfolds Bin 28 and Bin 128 (on discount if you bought six bottles for $$17.99) but wants to know what the bestest blackest inkiest red is that he has ever ever tasted. Maybe the Iz will be a bit decadent. So next acquisition is lots of nice cheeses, smoked salmon and all sorts of decadent picnic delicacies.
Iz will be able to slink off in the afternoon to have her own Moonshine picnic and only hopes that there is no cloud cover like last time.
Last week, the grumpy grizzling bus driver who obviously HATES the job (and who Iz calls Argus Filch)was telling the Iz that some silly student had started a bomb scare. Iz asks if she just happens to have an exam in the building where the bomb was supposed to be. Sure enough she did. But a bunch of born again Islamic sorts on a conversion mission had also scheduled an evangelical event near this very same building on this very same evening. So the thing had to be taken seriously. But the silly twit will have learned her lesson. It would have been so much easier and cause less hassles to all concerned if she had spent her time and energies on studying her subjects rather than inventing ingenuous ways of avoiding exams.
Friday was another moment for the Goblins. Got the quarterly statement from the present owners of the Izzie lair and was so delighted to find that after what seemed like an eternity, Iz had finally crashed the seemingly insurmountable $$90,000 Wall of debt. But then again, would have been there so much sooner if we hadn't been cheating and redrawing funds to pay for trips to Middle Earth and Kuala Lumpur, for fees and auditing text books and all sorts of temptations.
It turned out to be the first quarterly period since 1998 where Iz had not taken out a single sickle for unrelated purposes.
So maybe will be able to get the Izzie paws on the title deeds by January 2008.
In the mean time - hardly three days later - Iz is once again yielding to temptation. Vernon and Petunia have their Ruby wedding anniversary on Friday and Iz was just not going to make it to next pay day and be able to get them something decent.
Booked a nice tasty lunchies for Friday and already acquired some bottlies for a picnic hamper. Iz needs advice from the resident Connoisseur of Red. We got one bottle each of Penfolds Bin 28 and Bin 128 (on discount if you bought six bottles for $$17.99) but wants to know what the bestest blackest inkiest red is that he has ever ever tasted. Maybe the Iz will be a bit decadent. So next acquisition is lots of nice cheeses, smoked salmon and all sorts of decadent picnic delicacies.
Iz will be able to slink off in the afternoon to have her own Moonshine picnic and only hopes that there is no cloud cover like last time.
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Date: 2004-06-29 09:59 am (UTC)Well, perhaps I need to break that up into bits. All reds here only.
1. Bestest
Several candidates come to mind, all of incredible elegance and power, an iron fist in a velvet glove, as they say.
1985 Leoville Barton - Quite possibly the best claret of all. Incomparable finesse and poise, and a wine everyone will recognise as pure class.
1983 Mouton Rothschild - Power, elegance, steeliness. Beautiful balance and length, but the LB still was nicer.
2. Blackest and inkiest
Ooh, several candidates here.
1998 Tatachilla Foundation Shiraz - Pure jammy fruit, with rich oak nicely offsetting the density of the wine.
1992 Penfolds Bin 707
1994 The Armagh, Jim Barry
Basically anything Robert Parker rates 98+ from US / Australia.
But if you want my recommendations for best value reds from Australia, they would have to be :
Penfolds Bin 407
Cape Mentelle Shiraz
Tatachilla Foundation Shiraz
Elderton Command Shiraz
Petaluma
Taylors Shiraz 2002
Taylors Cabernet Sauvignon