Red Wine Wednesday – Woven Leaf Shiraz

So, my dear and beautiful readers, I’ve really spoiled you on the blog this last few weeks – 3 wine posts and some photos of my kids goofing off – I think I need to be more generous and diverse on my content creation. Anyway, it is what it is – so welcome to another Red Wine Wednesday (in glorious wine colour too –…

Red Wine Wednesday

Yes, vino-lovers, after a small hiatus caused by, well, laziness, it’s that time again.. Today’s lovely wine is.. A gorgeous Western Australian Shiraz.  As I mentioned before, Shirazes (and Syrrah’s in Europe) have a peppery, blackcurranty earthy taste, not totally unlike a Rioja, except they lack that deep red earth full body of a typical Rioja. This wasn’t a massively expensive wine but it…

Red Wine Wednesday

Yes, its that time of the week already! Its Wednesday Wine of the Week So, wine lovers, I have a delight for you today A cleanskin (unbranded) wine from the Haughton Vineyard in Perth.  Wine producers sometimes find they have too much wine for a given vintage and don’t want to devalue their brand by flooding the market, so sell it on unbranded at…

music and alcohol

Yes, I know – its a slight variation on the Oasis or Dr Feelgood songs.. As regular readers of this fine and entertaining blog (yeah, okay, I’m overselling it somewhat) will know is that Jay and I went to see the B52’s and the Proclaimers at Sandalford Wines just outside Perth at the weekend. We got there early, which turned out to be a…

forums

Internet forums. You gotta love them. Somehow, no matter how nice the people, how much of a common interest they have, a forum will always end up in a flame war. Its just the way it is. People posting on there forget (or don’t care) that the recipients of their flaming, insults, anger and name calling are actual people too. You wouldn’t have that…

oh man

Just followed a link in an email – was shocked to see how much friendsreunited has gone to the dogs 😦 adverts everywhere, flashing banners, badly laid out compared to how it used to be.  Just goes to show, bigger and commercial is not better.  Its awful, infact, I’m removing my (now very out of date) profile from there forthwith. Note to the new…

weddings

One of the things I really want to do is photograph a wedding.  Not just be a guest and point the camera at people and take nice pics kind of stuff, but actually shoot a wedding, either as an assistant/second shooter or as the main shooter and be in control of the precedings. I love weddings – they’re full of interesting people, all dressed…

bullying in the workplace

so, my other half has been working as an Education Assistant in a local special needs school for the last 6 months.  Sadly, there has been serious ongoing bullying there by some members of staff – all directed at one particular classroom and all the people that work in it. Unfounded allegations, smear campaings, backstabbing etc – so much so that they complained to…

vino

been sampling the local wine over the last 4 months We have an excellent off licence/bottle shop just around the corner with a wide selection of mostly Australian and New Zealand wines. We’ve cab savved, pinot noired, grenached, cab merloted and are beginning to save up a win list The Cover Drive – cab sav Stella Bella- shiraz Gramps – cab merlot Gramps –…