Adrian Tritschler's stuff
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The finished product from previous years. Bottles of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Geoff bringing in the tubs of chardonnay for crushing
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Geoff providing directions for the crushing
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Picking complete, crushing commences in the winery
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A juicy bunch of chardonnay grapes in my hand
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Just before we remove the nets, the chardonnay grapes waiting to be picked
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A full tub of pinot grapes, ready for crushing
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Jo picking the pinot at Duke Vineyard
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Ready to pick, bunches of Pinot grapes
Caught Again...
Up early and off in the car for the grape picking at The Duke Vineyard down at Red Hill on the Mornington peninsula. When I arrived I found that my description of our last visit had been discovered by some friends of the family and passed on to Geoff and Sue!
After yesterday, the weather still looked ominous, but apart from about ten minutes of drizzle, it was just grey and overcast for the day, almost ideal weather for picking the grapes.
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Duke Vineyard, Red Hill South
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Journal for [2004-04-23 Fri]
It feels as though winter is upon us. Sometime during the night the unseasonably warm weather broke, a cool front came through and it has been pouring with rain ever since. Breakfast was a dreary affair as we both looked at the rain beating on the windows, wondering how dry we’d be by the time we got to work!
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Journal for [2004-04-22 Thu]
Lego kills Firefox, news at 11… Off to the post office this morning to pick up a long-overdue parcel, I bought myself a toy from their sale bin. Bionicle #8591, suitable for ages 7+ so I guess that’s OK for me. Tried to put it together at lunch time only to discover that one of the important pieces is missing. Bother! Off to the Lego website, to see whether there’s any way of replacing missing pieces — it’s not like the old days when Lego consisted solely of simple blocks, every piece now seems to have one and only one function.
RDF for pets?
More on the RDF front: FOAF files for pets! I couldn’t resist, but its a bit hard when the lease forbids us from having any pets in the house. So here we are, an RDF FOAF file for Phil…
http://purl.org/stuff/pets: FOAF for pets
Tintop idiots
It seems such a long time since I last ranted about Melbourne’s idiots in their tin boxes, two specimens today popped to the fore:
Tosser #1: “Why is this car drifting into my lane? Has my motorbike suddenly become invisible? Are space aliens in control of the driver?” I asked myself as I rode along the freeway to work. “Aha! Its because the idiot has his phone on the steering wheel and is busy SMSing with both thumbs!
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A very fat kookaburra, just after it bit my finger!
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The opposite of a rock-pool
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The ocean breaking onto the rocks
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A raised rockpool
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Joey on the rocks…
Journal for [2004-04-18 Sun]
A cold wintery day down at Lorne, a morning walk along the beach was nearly abandoned with the wind and spray. The tide was high, but as usual, there was very little interesting flotsam and jetsam to poke around in — I guess there are just too many people around for interesting stuff to remain for long. A three-metre length of weed-covered bamboo was the only thing that caught my eye — dead-straight, it looked as though maybe it came from the mast of a boat, in which case it is probably a long way south of where it started!
Journal for [2004-04-16 Fri]
The wild life gets the better of me. Too much running around on bicycles, too many beers, too little sleep. Too much proximity to Jo’s cold as well! Spent the day home in bed or on the couch or half-heartedly trying to fill in gaps in pages here that’ve been left blank.
Hmm, enter “Deadly Treadly” into Google and the only references it finds are to my website. I guess that explains why I got the phone call at work one day from someone wanting to go on one, pity she didn’t read anything and see that I’ve got nothing to do with them!
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Six different courses, ten different wines!
Power trip
Power I guess Origin Energy is incapable of keeping our power going for more than two weeks at a time without an outage. Last night at around 02:30 the power flickered, everything reset, the CD player started up playing a Nick Barker CD (a strange habit that it has when the power comes on — playing that is, not necessarily choosing Nick Barker), and the PC reset.
That’s about the fourth outage at approximately two week intervals that we’ve had!
Timing is everything
So much for a day at home to do useful things after Easter! A friend who was to turn up “late in the afternoon” to collect an ill-gotten barbecue — snarfed from the hard-rubbish in the street — turned up as I was eating my lunch. End of time to myself. Good to see him, good to catch up, but a major loss of time that had been allocated for some much needed house cleaning!
Deadly Treadly Tour, day 4: Poowong to Melbourne
stats. Today ??km Trip km Not just the fourth day of the bike ride — today was our first wedding anniversary! Woohoo, what fun. One year and no divorce, we must be better than all those Hollywood people or international sporting stars…
A couple of friends snuck breakfast-in-bed, the paper, and a bottle of bubbly under the edge of the tent this morning, luckily we opened the door before packing up the sleeping bags, letting us have a somewhat amusing romantic breakfast-in-bed of muesli while sitting in the tent!
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Dennis, Jo and I in the Poowong pub
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Jo and I in the pub
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Joey and Dennis in the pub
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Annette and Chris on the dancefloor
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Steve puzzling out the workings of Sarah's camera
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Chris and Annette at dinner in the pub
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Sarah and Steve at dinner in the pub
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Sarah and Steve
Deadly Treadly Tour, day 3: Tarwin Lower to Poowong
stats. Today ??km Trip km The overnight rain had blown away as we packed up this morning — I guess there’s got to be some rain on an Easter Deadly Treadly! In place of the rain we had a strong westerly, straight in our faces on leaving Tarwin lower and for the next hour’s slog towards Inverloch.
Nobody seemed in a very talkative mood on the road; maybe it was the hangovers from last night, maybe it was the headwind, maybe people were still asleep.
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Dennis and Joey
Deadly Treadly Tour, day 2: Mirboo North to Tarwin Lower
stats. Today ??km Trip km A magnificent day’s riding, mostly along peaceful country roads through the Gippsland hills.
At one point we watched as a flock of twenty to thirty black cockatoos flew overhead, creaking mournfully as they called to each other, flying with their characteristic slow, floppy wing beat.
There was a long hard climb after the morning-tea stop at Meeniyan, then magnificent views down towards Wilsons Prom as we headed south to rejoin the Foster to Inverloch road.
About
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…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
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