installation

Hello good people. We have been working since the dusk with things that wouldn't make you very proud if you're a ve vegetarian. we have made it work much better then anytime before - it's great and the customer is jolly happy! ah, the place is called poowonga and is as pitoresque as a terrestial place can get, and the hobbits are great too! after the breakfast at seven am we had a cup of tea (sugarless) at one pm and first dinner at seven pm, with a dry martini before that. it's a hammer! and the food is five hundred times better than you think it would be in the (half) middle of nowhere. but then again, it's called the Bear House. and it's in Crainborn! and the wine is outstanding!

Victoria

Hello from the land of Victoria good fellas! I have been here a day now, we are installing a big instrument in a meat factory in a town called something like Powoonga or thereabout. Very interesting. And very beautiful landscape - just like I imagined New Zealand to be, very green and hilly, lots of cows and goats and shetland ponnies and creaks and ponds and meadows and hobbits. And this is very close to Melbourne. A beautiful place!

We are staying at a lovely little motel called the Bear House. They've got a big stuffed brown bear in the restaurant cottage looking at you. The food and the wine is amazingly great - I just had some kangaroo, very rare and nice. Great place! You should come here! Now the wine tells me to go to bed! :)

How are things in Europe mates? comments please!

Linguistics at work

Once again, we have had a class at work: E is a linguistically interested Spaniard, always trying to include some phrase in the recipient’s mother tongue in every email he writes. Except of Pere, he is the only Spaniard/Catalan to be able to say something in Swedish. Today, we had yet another language session, trading my German for his Spanish. The exchange does not always include words necessary for making a decent conversation. The top trade of Today:

Geil [de] = horny, lustful, cool, wicked (do you still use this word?), på svenska tydligen också fet eller bördig (Prismas Tyska Ordbok)

De puta madre [sp] = excellent (BBC warning us not to confuse the phrase with another one)

Wine insider

I have just been promised to join one colleague sales manager visiting some of our wine customers and olive oil customer prospects! Yesssssss!

The wineries in Spain are just about to enter the harvest season and busy they will be. I am looking forward to seeing a Big Bang wine harvest – the wineries are working from dusk till dawn during the whole of September, creating the base for many good wines and just as many cheap ones (those of course don't have our instruments. We're to good for them.) I guess that the master country in having the most Schwung and volume in growing and harvesting is Australia and soon I will take part in the Australian wonder! Best to learn the names of all the socceroos :)