Wednesday 9 February 2011

Guess who part 1

So today comes in three parts and you get to guess who chose which bit! You can choose from Martyn, Kay, Barrie and Isabel.

First up - Mamaku Blue. A lovely family run farm just north of Rotorua. It was quite a big farm with all the usual farmy stuff but then they diversified. They planted blueberries and gooseberries.

All was going great until cyclone bole blew all their crops down. Then a mate said they should make wine with all their fallen and unusable crop. An hours worth of hilarious stories about pantyhose, bathtubs, welding, colour sorting machines (the only thing they bought new) and wine school and we were well informed and some of us were slightly well imbibed (having already tasted the wine in the shop we moved on to the gooseberries soaked in alcohol and the fueijoa liquor) as well.

Valuable lesson in kiwi humour learnt:
Q: how do you get a blueberry cutting to grow well (serious question)
A: stick it in the ground

Back to cafe for giant stack of blueberry pancakes, a blueberry smoothie and two blueberry muffins!

So - who chose that then?

PS happy birthday Ian - think we've missed yours (sorry about that)

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