There are two ways of harvesting grapes
You go through the lines of vines with your team, cut off each bunch and snip out the unripe grapes, the mouldy ones, the ones that the birds have been at and the one’s that are starting to rot.
Then you make your wine with ripe, clean grapes and nothing else.
Or you can run a mechanical grape harvester through, which will pick up everything – ripe grapes, twigs, dirt, leaves, unripe grapes, mouldy grapes, bird-eaten grapes, rotting grapes and possibly a mobility-challenged rabbit or two .
I know which I prefer…
Victoria at Joplin Daily Photo tells me that she’s tagged me.
If I’ve understood the concept correctly, I have to reveal 8 things about myself and then tag 8 other people.
So here goes.
1. I have flown over 2,000,000 miles and spent almost a complete year of my life in aeroplanes and airports.
2. I don’t much like cauliflower.
3. Patrick Maisey says I’m a farmer.
4. I have parachuted out of a C47 from 1000 feet into the Waitemata Harbour, doing an involuntary forward somersault on exiting the aircraft whilst yelling “Geronimo”.
5. I am occasionally mistaken for Ian Botham.
6. I once got 4% in a physics exam and went on to design quite successful Interactive Voice Response (Digitised Evi Seibert‘s voice even…) and Revenue Management systems.
7. I once sat next to Daliah Lavi on a flight and wondered why people looked envious. I had no idea who she was and having done some research, it doesn’t much bother me either.
8. Based on a regression analysis of the lifespans of my direct ancestors (dating back to 1580), I should be dead by now.
My tagging victims are
Jilly at Menton Daily Photo
Rich at Wassenaar Daily Photo
Joy at Norwich Daily Photo
Lynette at Portland Daily Photo
Meg & Ben at Nelson Daily Photo
Fredrik at Ystad Daily Photo
Kate at Visual St Paul (though I imagine she’s been tagged a zillion times already)
Chuckeroon at Richmond upon Thames Daily Photo
Go forth and multiply, as they say…
Mainz Daily Photo 
>I wonder what method is used in the wines I buy?
>Do I say danke for getting tagged? 😀 I like this photo. I like the colours and the story it tells.Thanks for visiting Norwich Daily Photo.joyYour Love Coach
>Go forth and multiply is exactly how it works, eh!
>Great list of random facts. Love it. If you look like Ian Botham, do you play cricket I wonder?! I normally don’t like these things but have decided it’s rather nice to know more about our fellow bloggers. Mine will go on tomorrow or next day. Thanks for the tag, JB. 2,000,000 miles, Lordy Miz Claudy!
>I’ll say thanks for the tag, too, JB. I’m still figuring out how to do the link thing, but I’ll get back with you before too long. Thoroughly enjoyed you 8 Random Facts.
>JB, thanks for the tag. I was tagged last week also but haven’t returned the favor yet … will do next when we get back from Berlin.I’m with you, keine hasen, bitte.