I've spent the morning helping to lay a concrete floor in one of the pavilions we use for the Craft Fair. The building is owned by the Redline Bus Company but we've done a deal with them to contribute towards the cost for a guarantee that we can have the use of the place for the next few years. Part of the deal was that we would contribute 40 hours or so of labour and this morning was the first stint of that. Talk about Dad's Army ... The geriatric gang we put together was matched only by the old fellow who was in charge of the project. Happily, he had a couple of energetic off-siders who did most of the work while we chatted in the corner.
No wine-making today. It was a big day yesterday and we bottled most of a batch of raspberry. The process is labour-intensive. One person operates the bottling machine, one bottle at a time; another works the capping machine, one bottle at a time. The third tries to look busy. No conveyor belts nor robots for us. It's truly hand-made.
It seems we are rapidly running out of bottles so Jamie is getting some quotes from various distributors. He's also refining the labels ready for a print run. Pamela has been getting her labels from a local fellow who screen-prints them in small lots at 45c per label. Jamie wants to get the cost down to about 10c without sacrificing quality so he's getting quotes from bigger operators.
It's already clear we need to streamline the operation to make it more efficient and structured so we're re-organising everything. Great fun!
No wine-making today. It was a big day yesterday and we bottled most of a batch of raspberry. The process is labour-intensive. One person operates the bottling machine, one bottle at a time; another works the capping machine, one bottle at a time. The third tries to look busy. No conveyor belts nor robots for us. It's truly hand-made.
It seems we are rapidly running out of bottles so Jamie is getting some quotes from various distributors. He's also refining the labels ready for a print run. Pamela has been getting her labels from a local fellow who screen-prints them in small lots at 45c per label. Jamie wants to get the cost down to about 10c without sacrificing quality so he's getting quotes from bigger operators.
It's already clear we need to streamline the operation to make it more efficient and structured so we're re-organising everything. Great fun!
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