Kenfessions: Partagas Lusitania – Chichibu Ichiro’s Wine Wood Reserve Malt Whisky – “I Love Lusi”

[Ken Gargett]

Partagas Lusitania – Chichibu Ichiro’s

Wine Wood Reserve Malt Whisky – “I Love Lusi”

 

As the otherwise largely obscure (now) French poet, Paul Claudel, said, “Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne”.

Yes, it has been that sort of week (and forgive me but there have been a few spoilers already on the forum). 

What a nightmare few days. Edging closer to settling a new house, but it still seems as though it is a million miles away and with a vendor keen to crash the contract and a bank trying not to keep stumbling over its own twisted incompetency, there is still every chance I’ll be on a park bench.

Over a year ago, with the burglary and the old place crumbling, I knew I needed to sell and move. Loved that old place, but it needed way too much work and I had neither the ability nor the dosh. The sale took months before and after the contract. Including 8 extensions – not all of them caused by my Bank, or their bank, but my bank lost the docs twice, theirs lost theirs once; mine sent the docs to the wrong branch on... continue to full article. 

[La_Tigre]

Wonderful read and entertainment as always Ken! Sure hope things float back your way soon. 🍻 

[Ken Gargett]

2 hours ago, La_Tigre said:

Wonderful read and entertainment as always Ken! Sure hope things float back your way soon. 🍻 

thanks. trust me, they were the halcyon days compared to what followed. 

[Nino]

Great read - thanks !

Hope you have a soft pillow for that park bench ... 🙂

[Ken Gargett]

13 hours ago, Lrabold89 said:

that whiskey will run you several hundred dollars a bottle if youre lucky.......why not sell the rest of it to come up with the rest of the money 😂

i had a few more bottles that were stolen, along with most of my spirits. so not much to sell anyway and no one is taking opened bottles. i would prefer not to sell wines, spirits, cigars etc unless i have to. also, i source these direct from the importer so they didn't cost me anything like that and it would be a bit poor form if i get these bottles from them and then go and sell, effectively in competition with those guys. might see my source abandon me very quickly. i also get Navazos sherries and spirits from them and some other wines like the U Collin champers so i do not want to lose those.

finally, they really are not that well known here so every chance i don't get the return i'd like. 

[joeypots]

You know how your dad said things to you during your youth that hit you between the eyes when you were old enough to understand?

"There is no such thing as a simple real estate transaction."

Attributed to the late great Francis X. 

[Ken Gargett]

6 hours ago, joeypots said:

You know how your dad said things to you during your youth that hit you between the eyes when you were old enough to understand?

"There is no such thing as a simple real estate transaction."

Attributed to the late great Francis X. 

i might just be the one person over there to which that does not apply - my old man was actually wrote the very first contract used by the real estate institute of qld which has  formed the basis of every land transaction in qld in the last 50-60 years. mind you, he did dislike real estate agents enormously and took every chance to make their lives hell. 

[JohnS]

Just now, Ken Gargett said:

i might just be the one person over there to which that does not apply - my old man was actually wrote the very first contract used by the real estate institute of qld which has  formed the basis of every land transaction in qld in the last 50-60 years. mind you, he did dislike real estate agents enormously and took every chance to make their lives hell. 

The saying then, "like Father, like Son" is oft used with negative connotation; however, in this case I would advocate this idiom has had a beautifully positive outcome! 👍

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, JohnS said:

The saying then, "like Father, like Son" is oft used with negative connotation; however, in this case I would advocate this idiom has had a beautifully positive outcome! 👍

thanks John. i think.