[Leica] (SPAM: ?) Demonstration in the National Day of Catalonia

[John Beeching]

Jayanand,

I am sure you are right.  Luckily I still have about a dozen assorted
bottles of the good stuff.  Unfortunately, none of them is full!  However,
I will toast Catalunya and Scotland tonight.

John

On 12 September 2014 18:54, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> The price of malt whisky is doomed to go up for the near future. Thanks to
> recessionary conditions in the 1990s for Scotch, most distilleries did not
> distill and lay down stocks for maturation to the extent of capacity, and
> so there is a severe shortage of stock from that period. This can be seen
> most clearly from the profusion of NAS (No Age Statement) releases, which
> allows blending young whisky with older stock, and thus stretching out the
> available supplies. Added to this, there is a severe shortage, at present,
> of good quality barrels for maturing, exacerbating the problem further. It
> will take at least 5 years to get over this hump, and you can be sure that
> prices will stay up. The hardest hit distilleries are supposedly Macallan
> and Ardbeg. A bottle of 18yo Macallan Sherry Wood which cost GBP 60-70 a
> few years ago costs GBP 200+ today. Either we accept a drop in quality of
> mainstream offerings, or pay higher prices for the good stuff.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 12-Sep-2014, at 10:52 pm, John Beeching <johnbeeching at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > While I think it is fine to celebrate cultural diversity, I have always
> > considered nationalism to be at best reactionary and at worst dangerous.
> > With Scotland, of course my major concern what independence will do to
> the
> > price of malt whisky!
> >
> > John
> >
> >> On 12 September 2014 11:52, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> I thought it was a larger factor in Thatcher's day?
> >>
> >> john
> >> ________________________________________
> >>
> >> Natan,
> >> Do you have any idea how UK finances will stack up without North Sea
> oil?
> >> That is what saved Blair, Brown and Cameron fiscally.
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It certainly is getting a lot of coverage in the otherwise very
> >>> ethnocentric Spanish radio and TV. The obvious comparisons are being
> >> drawn,
> >>> and some commentators compare the UK (where the people decide and the
> >>> campaign has been peaceful) favourably with Spain (where the central
> >>> government denies Catalonia the right to vote).
> >>>
> >>> Having said, this I see a lot of silly nationalism both on the Scottish
> >>> and Catalan side.
> >>>
> >>> Incidentally, if Scotland becomes independent, it may well be Spain,
> not
> >>> the UK, that blocks its EU accession, just as Spain is one of only 5 EU
> >>> countries (and the only important one) that has not recognised Kosovo.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Nathan
> >>>
> >>> Nathan Wajsman
> >>>
> >>> Alicante, Spain
> >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >>> http://www.greatpix.eu
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> >>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>> YNWA
> >>
> >>>> On 12 Sep 2014, at 05:27, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> You must be waiting for the Scotland vote with bated breath!
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> Jayanand
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Lluis Ripoll <
> >>>> lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here are some shots from the Demonstration of the Catalan People for
> >> the
> >>>>> right to vote
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pictures processed in Capture One 7Pro with only a general automatic
> >>>>> adjustment, all the pictures are with Leica M9, Tri Elmar 28-50-35,
> >>> Elmarit
> >>>>> 21mm, Summicron 90 AA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <
> >>
> http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/catalonia-for-the-right-to-vote-national-day-of-catalonia-2014/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Saludos cordiales
> >>>>> Lluis
> >>
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