Perfect day...

Posted by Andrew Chapman, 11:01pm 22/01/2008. Leave a comment

... Oh, what a perfect day!

You don't necessarily wake up expecting any day to be that much different or better from the previous one (after all, today was the day of Alison's latest MRI scan, which always leaves us feeling apprehensive - Alison has recurring breast Cancer. The way she, and many other suffers of this disease that I have met through Alison's treatment, deal with such life-changing circumstances with strength, good humour and positiveness puts the rest of everyday life into perspective), but sometimes a bunch of little things happen to make a day perfect. Well, perhaps just a little better than yesterday at least!

Today started off with good omens. Some code changes we'd been looking to make to the back-end of Surf4Wine were brought online by Kelvin, our resident web genius, in the early hours of this morning. And he was still online from the night before as I was stuck in traffic on the way into the office; me being a law-abiding driver didn't look at Blackberry/read any emails, I could just hear them pinging in! Gotta love a Blackberry in a traffic jam - makes you want to get to office even quicker to read the mail - or pull over like I did and use opportunity to get a large coffee and catch-up with Surf4Wine techy advances!

Between Kelvin and I we have some great plans for Surf4Wine over the coming months, so be sure to watch this space...

Anyway, zoomed into the office and then straight to the train station to head to London to one of our favorite importers annual tasting at the Oval Cricket ground. As I turned the corner crossing the road coming towards me was one of my all-time favourite England cricketers - Alec Stewart. I didn't rush up and ask for an autograph, but it was another sign of a good day ahead!

Tasted some lovely wines - which I'll no doubt mention over the coming days. Couple of stand-out wines, amongst many good ones: Paul Jaboulet Aîné were showing an impressive line up, and there were some very good new wines from Italy, Spain and Portugal. Plus some new vintages from down-under, including John Duval 'Entity' and Plexus. If you've not heard about ex-Grange winemaker John Duval's wines check out Jancis Robinson's John Duval write-up. 2005 is current vintage of both wines, with 2006 arriving in May this year. If you haven't tried them before then I urge you to - both are 10% off in our current sale.

Then it was home by train just in time to grab supper and settle down in front of the TV to which my favourite team get yet another beating by Arsenal. Yes, I am the eternal optimist, but I had begun to wonder if we would ever beat them. Well, I don't wish to offend anyone on here who might not share the same footballing pleasures as me... it's taken us 9 years, but Spurs finally beat Arsenal... and what a game! Anyone that reads this and get a ticket to Wembley for me and my boy will earn my eternal gratitude - not to mention a very large bottle of Devaux Champagne!

A perfect day!

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