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I should have had more faith in the potatoes. I was worried they might have had blight after brown patches appeared on the leaves, and although I suspected those patches might equally have had something to do with slugs […]

Rich at Wyken Vineyards
Now here’s a nice place to spend a Saturday morning. Wyken Vineyards. It’s about 25 miles from Ipswich, and if you go there on a Saturday you can wander around the little farmers’ market that sets up in an old barn.
Lots of freshly-baked bread, newly-grown herbs, unusual cuts of meat and just-dug […]

Pet Shop Boys
I should have gone with my hunch.
Rich and I took an afternoon off work and headed to Newmarket for some racing and a concert. I’d never been to that course before, but it’s handy for Anglia, and is far nicer than many of the London courses, thanks to a healthy smattering of oldish […]

The BBC launched the iPlayer today. After months of user testing (or non-testing in my case, since I was sent a beta test invite some months back but have yet to take it up), it reckons it’s ready to go. Roll-out will be carefully managed, and ramped so that progressively more applicants gain to the […]

The BBC launched the iPlayer today. After months of user testing (or non-testing in my case, since I was sent a beta test invite some months back but have yet to take it up), it reckons it’s ready to go. Roll-out will be carefully managed, and ramped so that progressively more applicants gain to the […]

The unwritten rule of writing news is that news is news. Not comment. News. Facts, facts, facts and reportage, but never, ever, comment.
The BBC is very good at this, as evidenced by the fact that it can be self-critical in its own reportage without any sign of irony, defensiveness, or watering down of the facts, […]

With all this wet weather and warmth, the garden is heading for overdrive. I did a little stock-taking tonight, and was pleased to see that the beans are having a mini renaissance, although there’s still not enough there for more than a few plates, and of course the dwarf French beans we planted at the […]

GMTV was shocked and saddened to discover that between January 2003 and April 2007, some of our competition procedures were not carried out correctly. We found out that staff at Opera Telecom had been selecting finalists before the competition lines had closed. This meant that not everyone who entered had a fair chance of winning. […]

The total amount paid in fares by rail passengers has doubled since privatisation to more than £5 billion a year. But the total subsidy has risen even faster, reaching £6.3 billion last year, four times what British Rail received in a typical year. (Source: The Times)
If there were every any figures to damn the whole […]

A busy day in the garden. I mowed the lawn while Rich disposed of the remnants of the unproductive strawberry plants, then we got down to the planting.
The French beans, as I’ve already written here, seem to have thoroughly exhausted themselves, so we bought some dwarf French beans and dug them into the plot, then […]