What happened to a year?
Well, after we finished pruning in 2010, Emma and I went back to New Guinea with Frank Taylor's mob, Kokoda Treks and Tours, and, with a small party of seven,…
Well, after we finished pruning in 2010, Emma and I went back to New Guinea with Frank Taylor's mob, Kokoda Treks and Tours, and, with a small party of seven,…
Today, prescription 3 May 2010, I celebrate my 65th birthday. Just to clear up any misconceptions, that is 65 years young, not old! Anyone checking my Facebook will notice that…
The next old feller who chats to me in the main street of Lilydale and says: nice drop of rain! I'll drop him. Yes, a whole year has passed without…
With the help of Brenda and Elizabeth the vineyard has been tied down and the mulching finished today. Over Winter I fertilized using dynamic lifter (chook poo) for the first…
Well, after some five months in the planning and execution, and $6,000 overrun, our new net shed/workshop is finished. The old net shed, which embraced a pig sty, goat house,…
Brenda and I headed off for a well-earned holiday, travelling first to Adelaide to visit her family in and near Victor Harbor (their spelling, not mine!). Then we travelled on…
With my daughter, viagra Emma, more about I walked the Kokoda Trail, following the path of the 39th Militia Battalion in their retreat from Kokoda, fighting every inch of the…
Well, not really. Quentin Bryce is not my sister, but we are probably related somewhere back in Scotland. If we are I doubt she would want to recognise all our…
The contract picking team arrived at 7:30 am and took 5 tonnes of Chardonnay for processing as sparkling wine. Not Providence unfortunately, cheapest as the fruit was absolutely fantastic. No,…
Exclaimed our winemaker, Guy Wagner. Guy was speaking of the subsidiary bunches that form from the main bunch stem of Pinot Noir, often referred to 'wings' or shoulders. These grapes…