Jane Maylin🍇🍷

Oh yes. It's character forming.

A whole new avenue of questions for the MW exam

Shall I go on.....?

Some people DO manage to sh*t in the vines (ask me how I know)

I wouldn't know.

You've almost sliced off your finger with your secateurs but you have to get to the end of the row before being offered a dirty handkerchief.

How about it's pissing with rain at 10.00 so you're obliged to take your lunchbreak in the back of a C15 with five other people.

I also knew a revered Japanese wine expert who could do no more than dribble over the bucket. He was a great taster though.

Yeah, I'm sure. Next time I'm in Normandy......

They don't teach you that in the textbooks, or The Guardian.

The two litres a day helped 😵‍💫

😆

Then it wouldn't be a season (but you have a point 😁)

My hero

You may not. It's far too early.

Glad to hear it

Which is why my translations are so authentic #lol

It's Burnley

1,000 bottles a year......

The joys of grape picking #harveststories

And learning that the male pickers cleaned the sticky grape sugar from their hands by pissing on them. #neattrick

Witnessed someone spit from ten paces once. A pure, incisive jet that landed precisely in the bucket. I have aspired to such skill ever since.

"Ballet dancer" 😆

Ah, slippery slope

I've been on my knees at the end of the day with grape juice in my knickers, starving because my lunch was stolen by a passing {person}, rained on, and constipated because I can't sh*t in the vines, and sent home to do it all again the next day.

Brilliant

I love learning about your pears

Note to self. Must buy a bottle of Benedictine.

Everyone tells me so 😁

Amazing times. Shame the book was so turgid.