What are you doing right now?

[Minty]

The story is it was a guy called Brian Duffy who owned a wines and spirits shop in Bath, specialising in ordering in particular wines for the connoisseur.

After many a long conversation with wine buffs in his shop, during which the topic of the home brew wine makers hobby came up many times (it was only legal in the UK from 1963 when Chancellor Reginald Maudling made it no longer prohibited), he put together a little kit with all the bits & pieces people would need & a set of typed and lithographed instructions with his own illustrations to be sold from his shop.

It was an instant success & a representative from Boots The Chemists came along & asked him to sell them the rights to reproduce the kit to sell in their bigger shops. This he did, making him a lot of money.

You will probably know Brian Duffy better under his alias.




Jet Black, the drummer & founder of the band The Stranglers!

He's apparantly invented all sort of other odd bits & pieces in his time, although this could be one of those "Bob Holtness played the saxaphone solo in "Baker Street" and the guitar solo in "Layla" stories"

OK, had dinner an hour ago & now I am hungry again. No, it wasn't Chinese!