[SOC] The Guinness

[Ian C. Purdie]

Norman Lee wrote:
> Onya Ian,
> VB??????  Forget it - the Enemy starts at Bordertown/Kaniva!

You make me laugh mate. Unfortunately I'm in my olden days and am a 
wine aficionado. Actually many moons back than I care to remember, my 
then under age daughter always referred to VB as VD and loved to go to 
the Club with Dad and have a "Redback" with Dad. I think that also was 
a SA invention.

Back to wine!

Cheaper! Cheaper still if I could DIY reasonable wine.

Our US, Brit, Canadian and others by now have their eyes glazed over.

I have a cousin, around my age, in Queensland who does his own Bourbon.

> 150 years ago, some drunken surveyer put 8 miles of Vic into SA -
> still unresolved

Yep, learnt that in Surveying in one of my Diploma course's

> Or is it the other way around?  Anyway, Guinness or no, we brew our
> own version - Coopers Stout - and it's not bad, either.

Well known. But us silly old bugger pensioners [I'm 67} need to go for 
value.

> Willunga (60 kilometers south of Adelaide in the McLaren wine
> district), we're blessed with an Italian/Catholic// Irish/Catholic
> community and it's great.  Thems that don't have the Guinness (or
> Coopers) have wine and that's the way it should be!   I raise my glass
> to your late b-i-l, God bless him.

Up the road from here, literally, is the Hunter Valley. Prices? You 
will die with your eyes open. Go to your local bottle-o and get it 
half price.

> With kind regards
> Norm  VK5GI

Same to you Norm, a huge pleasure to make your acquaintance. Good to yarn!
> ps you want to know about the Irish Mafia?  Try the South Australian
> Law Society.....!  If you are not Irish, you can't be a lawyer in SA.

Heh! heh! They're loveable souls. Good people, accurately run the 
excavation industry here in Sydney and surrounding areas. I live in 
Budgewoi on the NSW Central Coast, 110 km north of Sydney by the lakes 
and ocean. Tough life. God's country we believe.

Unkind folks say "It's simply God's waiting room for all you silly old 
buggers".


Thanks! :)

Ian C. Purdie - VK2TIP
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