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.