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It was estimated that 750 missed their birthdays yesterday!!

Samoa and Tokelau moved west of the international dateline to help trading links with the rest of the Pacific nations including Oz and NZ.

FML on an island in the sun......

Happy new year may 2012 be your best yet....

Merry Xmas and a Happy New year

x

Shitmatt - The Snowman

I've had a week off now and I am bored I still got things to do but I need an interim adventure


Foreigner - Urgent



Foreigner - Break It Up

Pinch Punch 1 st day of the month (no returns)

Unemployed but got an offer of work in NZ for End of Feb sometime 2012. Vintage Winemaker no less.

I want some sunshine now though and a holiday, I am taking December off!


Tales of the Future - Vangelis (Bladerunner)

Update

It is a varicose vein formed due to exersion something like a minute hernia. Such good news for me and my family.

relief isn't the word.............

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

The Good

the wines are tasting really really good. All the hard work will be worth it.

The Bad

I am unwell and was given a course of antibiotics to fight off a perceived infection. 2 days after completing the course the symptoms persist. I now have a repeat prescription.

The Ugly

I have to have an ultrasound...
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Remember, remember the 5th of November gunpowder, treason and plot...............

Guy Fawkes night tonight albeit on a soggy wet night for many in the UK.

(Edit - It is actually cool and dry and the mother of all firework displays has kicked off a stones throw from my back garden. My cat has just careered in from his foraging in the woods that belong to...
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Harvest update - things are nearly done got some Cabernet Sauvignon that has been grown in a greenhouse today and the last of some Chardonnay from Dorset on Tuesday and then that is it.

That said there will be a further month more or less of putting things to bed blending up the wines into the agreed portfolio ready for next year - Sainsbury and...
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Come, fly the teeth of the wind....share my wings!




Harvest starts in earnest on Tuesday.

Job done - i am officially unemployed. The harvest here will run for another 2 weeks but 85% of the fruit is in. I am not that hopeful for much of the labels though. There have been some strange decisions made about a raft of things that havent borne fruit. Not my responsibility and even though it broke my heart a little to see these...
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