Ross Brothers Cabernet Shiraz

“Ben Elton?” he said, ”when?”. I’d been studiously ignoring him since I’d come in and now I was self conscious.

Baggy trousers, an English lisp and dark eye brows.

We began to throw authors back and forth, drinking in each other’s favourites. The conversation turned to English humour and then to Aboriginals.

“Wolf Creek, somewhere between Glendalough and Innaloo.”

I poured that Shiraz down my throat like it was water in the desert (it was a beautiful Shiraz)

His girlfriend’s name is Lisa.