Hello DAVE!
Monday July 01 1996 20:14, DAVE SACERDOTE wrote to IAN HOARE:
 DS> Ian Hoare's words to Dave Sacerdote are carved in cyberspace:
Scrawled, more like!
 DS> Hmm...very strange....I did receive the messages (and the recipes, of
 DS> course) and sent a reply.
Oh GOOD, because I discovered that my Boss's sox threw the second copy out as 
dupes, from what I can work out!
 DS>   Seems like the reply never made it out. Quite vexing.
Yes, it is, because it's pretty irritating HAVING to reply to everything so 
that the original sender knows that their letter got read. No thread will 
ever finish like that! Still let's hope that things will get better.
 DS> At any rate, thanks very much for sending them.
You know you're very welcome.
 DS> PS - Nice to see ya back again.  Gonna stick around awhile now?  :-)
I've never been away, neither from here nor from Cooking, I just limited 
myself to writing here for a while. Thanks for the friendly comment though.
I have to give a yodel of delight, though, because we've finally finished 
work on the wine cellar. I bought the house next door (the brothers Salles 
made us an offer we couldn't refuse) mainly because of the cellar, and then 
decided we had to do something to justify the expense. So after converting 
the house to be able to do 3 rooms B&B, we finally managed to get round to 
revamping the cellar. It had been too damp - as I wrote to ML, and it was 
pretty tacky too. So we :-
stripped off the crumbling rendering from the stone walls and filled the 
joints with a pale pinky mortar that would breathe.
Cast a concrete plinth all round the cellar that would both support the walls 
- which were built before the age of foundations and also provide a suitable 
support for our wine racks etc.
Built a false wall in breeze blocks to reduce moisture seeping through the 
end wall of the cellar.
Set 34 hollow cement blocks to be used in pairs to store bottles (2 1/2 dozen 
per pair)
Cleaned up the floor before laying about 2" of gravel to control humidity.
Lastly, resorted all our wines to enable me to create an accurate winelist, 
showing where every wine is stored.
All the Best
Ian
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