What a way to celebrate our national mascot the Kangaroo! Bin 128 Shiraz from Penfolds. The roo fillets were marinated in red wine then grilled on a hot skillet for about 2 minutes a side before being oven roastd for a further 5 mins. Roo has to be rare or medium-rare, if you over cook it, it becomes tough. BUT more on the wine! The Bin 128 Shiraz is one of the flagship wines for Penfolds. It’s at the high end of table wines coming in at about $30. See the penfolds website for a low-down on this wine -and funny it is that they also have the Riedel glasses that we do!
We found it to have lovely fruit and it’s nice and spicey. Kate thought it a little “sweet” but I figure she just meant that it wasn’t “suck her mouth in” dry. It is fantastic now, but might even mellow a bit more with time… I only have two left though and not a lot of time to drink them in! It’s probably too pricey for Monday night drinking, but hey, i’ve got 3 dozen bottles of wine left and about 21 days.
You do the maths!
4 and a half stars!!
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We’ve finally tiled and finished the kitchen. The tiles came up really well – with the help of Naomi’s dad Tony. Pictures to come!
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We relocated the laboratory today. From the old lab which was inhabited by my boss for around 30 years to the new lab. Luckily we could leave stuff in the old lab, giving Don a chance to look over it. Some of the crap in the old lab is older than me. That’s saying something eh? It was bad enough that some of my own stuff was dated 8 years ago…
I will sleep well tonight.
Next move is our house. Now that will be fun, even though we’ve only been here about 14 months! Luckily Dad and Mum have a Ute and a trailer!! But what will I do with my wine?? Who do I trust to “look after it”??
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Kate and I have been busy packing up stuff to ship to the UK. We’ve found a company that will ship a cubic meter for about $700. Initially I thought this was a bit expensive, but we’ve since realised that you can pack a lot of stuff in to 1 meter cubed and a cubic meter of your possessions can be worth… $4,500. I guess we’re going to have to pay for some insurance on this stuff!
What would you take? What couldn’t you live without for 3 years? No I can’t ship wine, well not unless I want to pay duty…
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I’ve spoken with my new boss and we’ve decided on a start date. 26th of November. That’s close eh?
Kate has begun her list writing. Lists of things to pack to send to the container, lists of things to sell/get rid of in the garage sale and things that we will have to take with us or ship.
If anyone has any suggestions of things to pack and ship, we’d be interested. Chris and Danielle have suggested a few things, but I’m always interested in more suggestions!! So leave them in the comments section folks!
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