Just thought I'd let you wine drinkers know I'll be in Clare (Clare Valley) tomorrow and I won't be touching a drop. All that farming space wasted on grapes! I might have a light beer but that's it.

The big thing is I'm actually going out of my neighbour hood. Not something I do often. I mean, I have to leave the system home all by itself.

OOooh! leaving the kids home alone

My kids left years ago. But if you mean my babies, yes! and I don't like leaving them.

I like your new avatar Grumpy :biggrin:

I like your new avatar Grumpy :biggrin:

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Thank you amfibius, just trying to show the Xmas spirit; I love Xmas but not the build-up to it, it makes me GRUMPY.

Thank you amfibius, just trying to show the Xmas spirit; I love Xmas but not the build-up to it, it makes me GRUMPY.

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oh come on, get in the holiday spirit :biggrin:

Grumpy

When saying that all that farming space is wasted on grapes.........and your new Avatr with you smoking a pipe......UMMM.....not thinking of setting up some sort of plantation of your own are you?

Bloody sacriledge Grumps...............we wll have to try to convert you over to reds...............maybe you just need lots of beers first.

Just thought I'd let you wine drinkers know I'll be in Clare (Clare Valley) tomorrow and I won't be touching a drop. All that farming space wasted on grapes! I might have a light beer but that's it.

The big thing is I'm actually going out of my neighbour hood. Not something I do often. I mean, I have to leave the system home all by itself.

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I jsut sucked on the light juice last night

agree planting grapes is a waste of space of farmign space given the grape glut we have. Hence I planted some grapes along my fence and its goign gang busters :biggrin:

I dont mind hte odd drop of the stuff though

do you eat grapes ?

The trip to Clare has been postponed until tomorrow.

So I have another day to whinge about grape growing.

'Tweeky', those days are long gone.

And yes I do eat grapes; bugger I'm a hypocrite :biggrin:

Yes it seemed for a while whoever had some acreage and a few bucks turned it into a vineyard.So today yes there is a huge glut.

So sometimes a good cleanskin is available from a premium winery for nics,for about the same price as a shyte cleanskin.Its a gamble sometimes.

Well I have survived my trip to Clare.

I've heard of dry wine before, so I think that's what you wine drinkers will be getting soon. It is very dry in the Valley of wine. I had a couple of bloody Victorian beers while there (Carlton mid strength), not bad, I suppose, better than wine. I have the family looking out for 'Dark Side of the Moon' wine, as I wouldn't mind a bottle of that to add to my wine collection of 3.

While there my brother in-law took me to his enormous shed to hear some American reel to reel tapes he said reminded him of his tour of duty in Vietnam. these were from a US radio station (1971) that plays oldies.

Terrible sound coming from the Sony reel to reel and Teac speakers though, but great music and he seemed to like the sound.

Heard Supertramp on the radio coming home so when I got home I played the best of Supertramp while downing a few Coopers Lagers and trying to ease the pain of a sun burnt right arm and a sun burnt

right side of my face.

It's good to be back home with the system and fridge.

Anyway, that's what I done today.

Well I have survived my trip to Clare.

I've heard of dry wine before, so I think that's what you wine drinkers will be getting soon. It is very dry in the Valley of wine. I had a couple of bloody Victorian beers while there (Carlton mid strength), not bad, I suppose, better than wine. I have the family looking out for 'Dark Side of the Moon' wine, as I wouldn't mind a bottle of that to add to my wine collection of 3.

While there my brother in-law took me to his enormous shed to hear some American reel to reel tapes he said reminded him of his tour of duty in Vietnam. these were from a US radio station (1971) that plays oldies.

Terrible sound coming from the Sony reel to reel and Teac speakers though, but great music and he seemed to like the sound.

Heard Supertramp on the radio coming home so when I got home I played the best of Supertramp while downing a few Coopers Lagers and trying to ease the pain of a sun burnt right arm and a sun burnt

right side of my face.

It's good to be back home with the system and fridge.

Anyway, that's what I done today.

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Nice goin grumpy maybe you could take me on a tour when I'm in SA...

Sure thing . If I can't, I can let the family know and I'm sure they'll look after you.