Sun shines, birds in fine voice, lambs on springs, Spring is really sprung. Ah the sweet peace of it all … well, there is our pile driver banging in the new steel trellising.
The girls have given up on wooden posts which they chose for all sorts of fine eco reasons. But either they were flogged a duff load of timber or pine posts just can't cope with the strain, or the British climate; they rotted and began falling over.
So now it’s bright galvanised steel posts – like Henry is very happy with in his vineyard.
Barbara, who had worked like crazy to prune the vines back to one or two spurs before we went to South America, now starts to work like crazy tying them down, horizontally on to the fruiting wire. (The lads doing the trellising managed to keep this wire in place while doing their work. The other six wires; three pairs that hold up the canopy when it grows, lie on the ground for now.) B has to get the tying down done before bud burst which cannot be far off as the buds have started going woolly. But then her tying machine battery goes flat and the charger doesn't work!
Gnashing of teeth, etc.
Meanwhile, up in London, at our Arch, a very nice lady won our bottle of Château Lafite 1983 - worth a huge amount of money - in our Annual Lucky Dip.
Sometimes the best intention just don't work out, you can only be as ECO as the environment itself lets you be.
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