Be humble

The water does swirl in the opposite direction in the toilet.

My kind of no-smoking sign. What you probably can’t read is the small print that exempts locals, friends, relations and 3-pack a day smokers!

Adelaide’s answer to Cavendish. 

Not sure why, but when I looked into this vat I had a vision of Parkdale Doris stomping around muttering “stunned arse!”

Each wine maker has a ‘cellar door’.  Go through the door and there will be a nice person behind the bar to help understand the wines.  All wines are available for tasting - we tend to start with the whites and work our way through the reds.  A great way to spend a day is to visit various wineries and “taste”.  3 seems to be a nice number to do in an afternoon.

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
On hating the insurance industry

March 22, 2004
It may not be surprising to hear the usual “eat the rich” rhetoric when we are told that the insurance industry made a healthy profit in Canada last year (see cartoon above). But it is discouraging.

Profit is a reward for helping people. Profit is what happens when a
company turns raw material and labour into goods and services that are
worth more to customers than they cost. Profit is what makes your mutual funds gain value. It is difficult to see what objection anyone can have to any of these things.

In the specific case of insurance, it is a highly valuable commodity. It
protects us against catastrophic losses, and does so for a fee that most
people can afford. There have been instances of bad practices on the part of insurance firms—refusing to pay legitimate disability claims, for
example—but trial lawyers have done a good job holding such bad apples to account.

The fact that an industry is profitable does not in and of itself indicate
the industry is somehow corrupt or soulless. Because insurance companies made a decent profit this year (unlike last), they will be there next year to offer us more vital protection against life’s vicissitudes—unlessthe critics get their way. If the government took over the insurance business, it would doubtless cease to be profitable. Then our taxes would rise. If you find that prospect appealing, why not have the government take over every industry and make them all unprofitable? However, if that doesn’t sound like prosperity, why do it to any one important service? There is no shame in profit, whether in insurance or any other industry.

Grapes coming off the truck into a press area where a one cylinder motor popped away starting the first stages of making wine.

First thing I thought of when I saw the big one on the left was this was a good choice for Al.

..I too expect to be an infrequent visitor here for a few days.  Tomorrow we are off to Goolwa to spend some time in the Coorong National Park.  Coorong is on the Southern Ocean so this should be a great adventure.

Everyone needs a break - I understand that.  However, when you are on the opposite side of the Earth and wanting news of home it appears that the CBC Charlottetown is not the place to look on weekends.  News does not occur on weekends - right?