Medieval Warfare Makes a Comeback!

  The war in Ukraine has gone even more medieval with the Ukrainians turning the tables on the aggressors by launching a chevauchée into the Kursk region of Russia

 Now I have to redraft it for the paperback version.

I've Written a Novel!

 Love, Law and Anarchy

Coronavirus Lock-in!

Have been told by President Macron to stay in until further orders. There's 1500 litres of wine in the cave . . . so it's going to be tough.

Labour Party Postmortem and Leadership Scrap

The Guardian today 'With endorsement from the Corbynite wing of the party, Long-Bailey is now the favourite for the job'

So the still twitching corpse of the Labour Party, having failed to achieve a Darwin Award, is now trying to strangle itself with its own entrails!

Rosé! Grace du Dieu!

All being well, we'll be corking 200 bottles of carignan rosé in the spring. Now we have only the rest of the carignan to get in for red. I won't post a photo of more crates of grapes as one looks very like another so here's one of Sue working the dégrappeur.

The Rosé That Wasn't

Up at the crack with an international team of vendangeurs to pick enough carignan to make some experimental rosé. All went well until the promised wine press failed to arrive. By the time it did the mushed grapes had been sitting too long and had too much tannin and colour. 

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