Re: wine pressings

William Grant's note regarding wine pressings as a mulch brings back an amusing childhood memory.  My parents were keen amateur wine makers, and I was 14 years old, curious and keen to do my own thing as young teenagers are apt to do.  So I tried a five gallon brew of 'saki' or rice and raisin wine.  After taking the wine off the lees at the bottom I was left with a thick alcoholic sludge and strict instructions not to try emptying the lot down the toilet.  So I threw the contents over the rose bed with entirely unforeseen results!
 
Blackbirds, sparrows, tits, finches, robins all swooped down and devoured the soft swollen fruit.  It wasn't long before the birds flew up to the garden wall, preened their feathers and started falling off!  While others had eaten so many they could not even co-ordinate their take off.  Fortunately their were no injuries and the birds eventually sobered up and flew away.
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