Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:59 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSYep, heading for winter and another set of vineyard skills to be learned. This time about how to get the vines into shape for maximum productivity next year. Otherwise known as winter pruning and you thought there would be nothing…
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Vineyard 82: A world of paradox
Instead of the customary four weeks between vineyard blogs, this clocks in at about three weeks. And the reason being there’s plenty to write about that needs an airing right now. For example there’s the paradox of the birds. There are many paradoxes with our vineyard first and foremost why would any sensible couple persist…
Retirement blog : Podcasts, the thing for retired people?
I admit I’ve struggled with my podcast, The Vineyard Years, since my chum became ill and had to give up taking care of the technical side of putting out this podcast. It’s one of those tasks that has a level of skill that does not come naturally to me. As I’ve said before I think…
Vineyard 51 : Netting or no netting?
So much has happened since my last vineyard blog it’s hard to know where to begin this one. I think I will start with one of my 70th birthday presents. It is a lovely little book bought by number one son. He bought it on-line from OZ, him not the book. The book itself was…
Vineyard 39 : It all starts again
It’s probably going to be difficult to believe if you have no experience of such things but it’s true. Work in the vineyard is starting this month and there’s quite a lot to do. Thing is it’s not us that are doing the work. Now this is a first, well apart from the strimming that…
Vineyard 28 : Some unexpected happenings
So many things going off in the vineyard it’s difficult to know where to start. Let me begin on a slightly sad note before moving on to the really bad stuff and finally explaining this first photo of a greenhouse. My Australian chum, the one who runs or ran, a winery as they call them…
No cricket for me in retirement
Thursday I went to watch Yorkshire v Somerset at Headingley (see photo of ‘new’ pavilion under glowering skies – no surprise that the game finished early, there are no floodlights, we’re a bit backward) . I could be mentioning this because this is, in part, what I thought I might do when I retired. It’s the…
Vineyard 14 : The merry month of May
“English wine has established a superb reputation in a comparatively short space of time. This is something we should nurture, protect and grow. We are still a tiny industry and the potential is enormous” So began a presentation by Mike Paul and Peter Gladwin to the UKVA (United Kingdom Vineyards Association) AGM, a couple of…
Adventures of retired persons : an oxymoron?
A couple of weeks ago we took another walk on the wild side. I just haven’t got round to writing about it until now. It’s yet another example of the kind of retirement activity I swore I would never get involved in and it needs to be ruthlessly exposed. I confess, we joined a walking,…