Bottling.

We went over to R and S's today to help with the bottling. I had no idea what it involved but found it astonishing. A man-and-his-bottling-van turned up and plugged himself in and bottles were loaded at one end, filled, corked and spat out the other end where we loaded them into crates.

I have sausage fingers and bruises between my first and second fingers of each hand but between 8 of us we loaded 10,000 bottles before lunchtime with just a couple of breakages.

P and I then came back, after a very lovely lunch in the sunshine, and finished winding up our wires in the parcel we are arraching this year.

I'm knackered and my hands are protesting. A lovely day though.