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Our valiant volunteers worked dawn to dusk to bring in the remains of the Solaris, and all ten row of Orion. Virtually no time to take photos of the actual harvest which was a real shame. Liz charged up and down collecting full crates and delivering emptied ones. Still time for lunch form the splendid…

Been teaching for past few days. First chance I have had to go through photos from BBC East Midlands Today filming our harvest two weeks ago. Everyone had a great time. Paul, volunteer, trod grapes and was interviewed by Emily Anderson. This appeared on the BBC EMT at 17.20hr. Then a second Paul, the cameraman,…

Liz starts massive clear up with some eggspert assistance who did a quality control sampling of grapes cleared from the de-stemmer. Too busy to make any tea for the builders. Hope they are OK!

Laura back for more picking assisted by Michelle. Then a curious chicken kept an eye on proceedings! At last we have picked all the solaris grapes which are used, with siegerebbe, to make King Richard wine. Botrytis has been a problem, so all suspect grapes went into separate barrow to be disposed of. Lovely fresh…

Builders not here so more room on the drive to cope with harvest to gather in remaining solaris grapes. Brilliant help from Roger, Terri and Laura. Then some feathered supervision!