Wine 'n' Candy

Red Red Wine
You may have listened to the U2 version, but let me remind you that the first time I heard this song was way back in the late seventies, on a Neil Diamond vinyl album: Hot August Night - and there's aabsolutely no cover version of this song that's as good as the original.

Well, laddies, ladies, and li'l lapdogs, everyone's going on and on about vino, and how really 'hot' it is on the page3 scene, whatever that may mean.

One of the great hazards is buying good wine in India is that except for the port peddlers in Goa, not many vendors know much about the stuff.

It's a fact that fairly recently a whole shipment of rare wine was lying at the Madras docks, for heaven's sake. In a crate! In the heat! While the importers were haggling with the customs officials over red tape.

I pity the poor saps in India who finally bought that wine, at premium prices over 2,000 rupees a bottle. For all you know, they must've uncorked the stuff, to sniff at and savour  vinegar.
If you think that this post is just a case of sour grapes, it very well may be!

Eye Candy
What exactly is eye candy? I sent the query out over cyberspace.
Eye candy is someone that's very pleasing to the eye, someone wrote.

Eye candy is a young guy who's super-delicious, and just looking at him makes you drool, said another.

Eye candy is a mint with a hole, wrote a third.

Eye candy is a dandy that you'd want to come in handy, messaged a fourth.

Eye candy is a chocolate boy who'll probably give you ocular diabetes if you ogle at him too much wrote a fifth.

Oh, well, I'm still finishing off the mountain of 'til kut' from makar sankranti day.