“Ash, I’m a dumb old electrical engineer. Moreover, I’m no spring chicken like you anymore. I’m forty-three. Heck, I’ll need a rocking chair...in another year.” He smiled at his own self-deprecation.Ashley laughed, “Age has nothing to do with it. Some of the greatest singers were old farts. Look at people like Tony Bennett and Johnny Cash; they sang well into their seventies along with many others – even their eighties. You’re just getting started.”Dave hugged the pretty girl, “I’ll think about. ‘Thanks a lot, genius. I had figured that one out, all on my own even.’ If I was writing this in an email, I would have inserted one of those little smiley faces with the tongue sticking out. As it was, I had to make do with sticking my tongue out at the telephone receiver instead. It wasn’t quite as satisfying, somehow. ‘J, you’re really not helping me, are you? Look, I’ve got an hour to get ready before Steven comes to pick me up, I’ve got to go. I’ll call you later, okay?’ Hanging up the. ‘There were people in the industry who said that d’Arry was stupid leaving the Grenache vines in when everyone else was ripping them out during the ‘vine pull programme’ of the 1980’s but his decision has been vindicated by that wine.’ While we ate she took me through the history of wine in this region and how it had grown with the changing palates of the Australian wine consumer, of how a large amount of the premium juice from this region is still sent to other wine regions, and how a local. This was bad, she was starting hypothermia and stubbornness or not, she had to be gotten warm right away. I started the tea kettle, and turned on the hot water in both the shower and the bathtub, and I opened the door and picking up her nude half-frozen body and then brought her inside and put her into the hot shower. That revived her enough that her eyes opened a little bit and she gave me a faint smile. When she could stand alright on her own I left to prepare a hot cup of tea for her,.