29 November 2013
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I think today will involve a fair amount of baking; tomorrow we are having an Advent-eve open house for our neighbours so we want to build up a suitable mountain of mince pies. Last year we had about a dozen … Continue reading
28 November 2013
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A lot of UK shops still have a minimum required spend of £5 or more for paying by card. I must observe that this is becoming increasingly easy to do, even with a single item. I suppose it is more … Continue reading
27 November 2013
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Getting to the venue for yesterday’s meeting, Hertford College, was made more interesting by the street outside being used for the filming of another episode of the Inspector Morse prequel, Endeavour. They had an old fashioned bus and an old … Continue reading
26 November 2013
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I’m giving a short talk at the Oxford University Web Special Interest Group this afternoon on the above title. The nutshell version is that websites don’t have to be all-singing, all-dancing; there is also place for simple ones that can … Continue reading
24 November 2013
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We have had our first decent harvest from our Medlar tree (Mespilus germanica ‘Nottingham’) this year: a couple of kilograms rather than just a couple of fruits. For the past couple of weeks we have been “bletting” the harvested fruits, … Continue reading
23 November 2013
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The Malus Orange seemed to have settled at about 1.020 @ 16.5°C so I now have a couple of quarts bottled and a third partial quart (over half-way but with a bit too much headroom remaining) that I will drink … Continue reading
22 November 2013
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Jane and I recently swapped printers but the HP multifunction printer I now have attached to my computer didn’t install properly and my attempts to load the driver from the HP website have been thwarted by some kind of group … Continue reading
21 November 2013
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For some reason, my first glance led me to believe that this article headline on the BBC indicated that Hull is to become UK City of Cthulhu in 2017. Intrigued — and with no regard for the state of my … Continue reading
20 November 2013
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It appears that I live on the cold side of Oxford. The temperature has been dropping all around but I have noticed that my car thermometer consistently shows it to be 1°C lower on the drive than other parts of … Continue reading
19 November 2013
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On 19 November 1863, speeches were given at the consecration of the Gettysburg Cemetery, which a few months earlier had been the scene of a ferocious battle in the American Civil War. Edward Everett — regarded as one of the foremost … Continue reading