Archive for March, 2009

How sticky hands can save you from ever washing dishes again!

By Darryl Soljan  |  Wine  |  Monday 30th March 2009

I am multi-tasking.

Seriously.

I am writing this Blog in between loading bins of Malbec & Cabernet Franc into the crusher. Awesome grapes! I have to keep washing the grape juice from my hands to prevent my keyboard going sticky!

However, my ‘multi-tasking’ capabilities, which are substantial (at the gym I catch up with my reading while at maximum pace on the ’step machine’ – see, getting fit AND learning at the same time) are not the subject of this Blog. My sticky hands are. (more…)

I can’t hear you, I’m not listening!

By Darryl Soljan  |  Food  |  Monday 9th March 2009

I can’t hear you, I’m not listening!

As parents or grandparents, how often have we heard those words from a toddler with hands clasped over ears, eyes averted, stomping determinedly on the spot?!

Kids seem to grow out of that phase pretty quick.

Quicker it would seem that most business owners. (more…)