30 April 2016
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Yesterday was a double axe day. In the morning I was in the garden helping more wood work its way round my storage system with hatchet, axe and saw. Logs and sticks get divided into lengths of approximately a double … Continue reading
29 April 2016
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Apparently there has been a sharp rise in UK slug populations due to a wet summer and a mild winter; no break in eating or breeding for one of the gardener’s least favourite guests. The news report I heard earlier … Continue reading
28 April 2016
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Tomorrow night sees the first public gig from The String Project since January. We are playing at the Florence Park Community Centre on Cornwallis Road in Oxford (doors open 7:30pm, £5 OTD, more on the gigs page) supported by a … Continue reading
27 April 2016
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For sometime now my MacBook has been running noisy and hot. It is annoying and I think it is probably also the reason I’ve had some unplanned shutdowns recently. Unfortunately OS X doesn’t provide much in the way of built … Continue reading
26 April 2016
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For the past couple of years we have been signed up to Tesco’s Delivery Saver service. By paying a fixed fee, we could have as many ‘free’ deliveries as we wanted from their online service as long as we met … Continue reading
25 April 2016
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has commented that the junior doctors’ strike due this Tuesday and Wednesday is an “extreme” action that will be “deeply worrying for patients” (source: BBC). He’s right; many will be seriously inconvenienced by cancelled operations and … Continue reading
24 April 2016
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I read an interesting post recently on spruce beer. There were variants that were brewed using parts of spruce trees and others that may have drawn on different meanings of ‘spruce’ – well-dressed beer where the wort was boiled for … Continue reading
23 April 2016
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It isn’t only in 2016 that famous people have been dying. Four hundred years ago today, William Shakespeare shuffled off his mortal coil. I’m not sure that artists as influential as Prince or Bowie – or as loud as Lemmy … Continue reading
22 April 2016
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Apparently bookies have reduced the odds that it might snow on Sunday’s London Marathon. No, I’m not taking part but it caught my year. The comment from the Met Office was “extremely unlikely” but we’re certainly back into a cold … Continue reading
21 April 2016
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Tremble ye famous for 2016 is on the hunt again. Victoria Wood passed away yesterday and then the news this evening is that Prince has died. Apparently there really is an uptake in celebrity deaths this year, probably a combination … Continue reading