MORE GUMBOOTS

Sunday was another gumboot day in the Yarra Valley. More a fashion accessory than a practical requirement (since we haven't had any rain for a few days), they are nevertheless perfectly suited to the winter environment here.
Especially if they are in polka-dot.

 

GUMBOOTS, WINTER SUNSHINE AND LIVING LARGE

What a great day for the end of the Yarra Valley Gumboot festival. Enough sun to warm the frozen bones of winter and enough good people to enjoy the Squitchy Lane hospitality:

We cooked up some beef and Cabernet sausages, drank some wines and just enjoyed the day. As did the happy group pictured above and here:

The designated driver (solitary male) looks rather glum because he was, well, it's pretty obvious really. His glamorous companions did their best to cheer him up.
People just kept coming. Here's a group who called themselves a netball team but we think they were more likely to be simply escaping the husbands and boyfriends for some serious girl time:

 Wines looking good today were the 2010 Chardonnay and the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon--both with a good future in front of them.

SAUSAGES AND GUMBOOTS

The Yarra Valley Festival of the Gumboot draws to a close on the weekend of 21/22 July. We'll be marking the occasion by cooking some sausages and drinking some 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon.
The barbeque will be on between 12 and 3 pm so come along for a free sausage. If you are wearing gumboots, so much the better.
I should add that the sausages were made by a local butcher using prime beef and our Cabernet. They taste even better than you might expect.
See you there. If you mention that you read about this barbeque on this blog, I may even be tempted to open a special bottle in your honour.