Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
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Questions:
1. I'm curious about the power source. Upon what mechanism did the door depend for its motion. I suspect some kind of gravity device with pulleys and a great weight, but one must wonder about the lifespan of the hemp rope. Then again, perhaps it is a complex arrangement of pipes and a cistern providing hydraulic power.
2. I must question the efficacy of rowing with a broom. Certainly it may be more functional than nothing, but it seems at a minimum the oarsman (broomsman?) would want to wrap the straw in some oilcloth or even a small plywood box to decrease its permeability.
3. Goat Ship?
Goat Ship?
DO NOT GOOGLE!!!
Title of book? Looks like one your niece would enjoy :-)
It's in "The Seventh Horse (& other stories)". Virago Classics.
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