Secondly I apologise for not having written anything since April! Not sure how that happened.
We finished banging posts in, which is up there with my least favourite jobs of all time and pushed my tractor driving and P's patience with said driving to the limit. But its done, wires are attached and the powers that be are happy.
What next....
Well this I guess, The Bean is due in November and has meant that I've not been as much use in the Vineyard as I could have been.
Which is a pity as we have planted, by ourselves, of which we are quite proud, another 1/2 hectare or Malbec. It took us 19 days of 5.30am starts and P's patience was pushed to the limits as was mine. But we did it and we watered it and then this happened:
The worst hail storm in 80 years. We've all but lost this years harvest, last years plantation has been put back a year and this years got beaten to a pulp but fingers crossed should be ok.
It's been pretty horrible but by comparison to the local village, we've been lucky. There are people who have lost everything for the next 2-3 yrs. Who have lost their arable crops too.
I hope I never see anything like it again.
That's a pretty speedy precis of what's been happening but I'll put up some more pictures and waffle soon.
