Please allow me to indulge in a little self pity, my fellow contributors and wine enthusiasts.
It is late winter / early spring here downunder, and I am fighting a massive dose of influenza (in this the very first year I have ever had a flu shot!!!!)
Anyhow, for nearly a week I have been coughing, spluttering and emitting bodily fluids which Rudyard Kipling would have called alike to the "Great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo River!" (with apologies to those soft of stomach!)
Food tastes like "pasta made from waste paper" while wine is totally wasted - "water with a spot of acid!"
Anyhow, this cloudy Saturday morning, I ventured downtown, wrapped up like a mummy, to try a little retail therapy (something small and expensive like an Aston Martin DBS).
Didn't find my dream car, but did find that all the new seasons (2008) pictorial calendars have now hit the shop-shelves - I have always sent a few around the world, so this year, in my morbid state, I have decided to play "Who wants to swap"
As I cannot send bottles of wine (unencumbered by the threat of imprisonment at Gitmo for breaching a raft of Federal and State laws - although, thinking about it, Cuba would be a bloody side warmer than NZ right now!) - even though the thought of an international wine swap has always appealed (one day the USA will become enlightened!)
I digress - we can't swap wine, so I am willing to send any and everyone who requests a pictorial calendar, "Vineyards of NZ" - and in return, upon receipt, you can send me something which best illustrates something about you or the place you live (No! I don't need "Snowscapes of Alaska") - I have set myself a limit of (say) $US20 or Euro20 - including postage per item.
Anyhow, if you would like to contribute to the "Keep His Lordship Amused and Sane Benevolent Society" please email me as hereunder.
Or, if you would like to send hello's and greetings or even a "bloody-well-serves-you-right-you-antipodean-son-of-a-bitch" sort of message - then feel free to vent your spleen (I have always wondered what venting one's spleen entailed??)
Lord St.Helier alphabetanz at hotmail dot com
(Gotta go - the cat wants to sleep on the laptop!)