Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Oct 6th 2009 | 9:18 pm
#16
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
How about Scottish wine fae Dundee? They have one made from leaves! It's erm noice, different & unusual! 
Oct 6th 2009 | 9:20 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Hi all,
I just stopped buy and had to tell all of a conversation I recently had with an Australian taxi driver.
I'd just returned from the UK and was discusing the weather like you do.
I said that the UK had very nice weather at the moment and I'd seen on the TV that British wine makers had had a bumper crop of grapes. They were very chuffed with themselves at producing 2 million bottles of wine.
The Aussie drive then said, "cor, Does the daylight saving time really make that kind of a difference?"
I kid you not. Apparently by moving the clocks you gain an extra hour of sunlight on your grapes!
I just stopped buy and had to tell all of a conversation I recently had with an Australian taxi driver.
I'd just returned from the UK and was discusing the weather like you do.
I said that the UK had very nice weather at the moment and I'd seen on the TV that British wine makers had had a bumper crop of grapes. They were very chuffed with themselves at producing 2 million bottles of wine.
The Aussie drive then said, "cor, Does the daylight saving time really make that kind of a difference?"
I kid you not. Apparently by moving the clocks you gain an extra hour of sunlight on your grapes!
Oct 6th 2009 | 10:37 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Well something funny happened so I thought I'd share it. The weather in the UK for 2 weeks was great, sunny and up to 24 some days. Hence nice for growing grapes. I got off the plane here in Sydney to a miserable 14 degrees and drizzle. Got home and my car had changed colour to a muddy reddy brown. The Pool had a layer of mud stuck to the bottom that doesn't want to come off. All in all a nice welcome back. (in fact it's rained every day since I got off the plane on Sunday)
Seems like I missed the natural disaster of the dust storm.
I just need to work off all the nice Indian and Chineese food I've pigged out on whilst back. Complain about Birmingham if you like but the Indian food is the best in the world IMO.
Seems like I missed the natural disaster of the dust storm.
I just need to work off all the nice Indian and Chineese food I've pigged out on whilst back. Complain about Birmingham if you like but the Indian food is the best in the world IMO.
Oct 6th 2009 | 10:43 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Well something funny happened so I thought I'd share it. The weather in the UK for 2 weeks was great, sunny and up to 24 some days. Hence nice for growing grapes. I got off the plane here in Sydney to a miserable 14 degrees and drizzle. Got home and my car had changed colour to a muddy reddy brown. The Pool had a layer of mud stuck to the bottom that doesn't want to come off. All in all a nice welcome back. (in fact it's rained every day since I got off the plane on Sunday)
Seems like I missed the natural disaster of the dust storm.
I just need to work off all the nice Indian and Chineese food I've pigged out on whilst back. Complain about Birmingham if you like but the Indian food is the best in the world IMO.
Seems like I missed the natural disaster of the dust storm.
I just need to work off all the nice Indian and Chineese food I've pigged out on whilst back. Complain about Birmingham if you like but the Indian food is the best in the world IMO.
I know what you mean though, curries, chinese food here is just hard to resist, especially when you're deprieved of it elsewhere. Not good for the six pack though is it
Oct 6th 2009 | 11:32 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Keema nan's the size a nan should be and not the size of a shoe insole, a Dhansak curry that actually tasted like it should and not one taste fits all dishes. Oh and a Corma with a nice light tan colour and not some insepid version with the colour and texture the same as how it comes out in the morning!
I only have to go 3 months between curries now so it's not so bad.
Oct 7th 2009 | 5:05 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
Average 'wet' days in Sydney is 138. In London it's 153.
http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/about...d_rainfall.htm
...and no, I'm not try to claim the weather is better in London than Sydney.
Rainfall difference is dramatic though...
http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/about...d_rainfall.htm
...and no, I'm not try to claim the weather is better in London than Sydney.
Rainfall difference is dramatic though...
Oct 8th 2009 | 1:10 pm
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Re: Just a quick drop in regarding grapes
I discovered an excellent curry house on the A45 going into Brum. After that I pretty much camped out in it.
Keema nan's the size a nan should be and not the size of a shoe insole, a Dhansak curry that actually tasted like it should and not one taste fits all dishes. Oh and a Corma with a nice light tan colour and not some insepid version with the colour and texture the same as how it comes out in the morning!
I only have to go 3 months between curries now so it's not so bad.
Keema nan's the size a nan should be and not the size of a shoe insole, a Dhansak curry that actually tasted like it should and not one taste fits all dishes. Oh and a Corma with a nice light tan colour and not some insepid version with the colour and texture the same as how it comes out in the morning!
I only have to go 3 months between curries now so it's not so bad.
