Lovely house :)Yes, please post inside pictures. N...

Lovely house :)Yes, please post inside pictures. No, I'm not looking to rent a room, just curious!

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Nicely done! (I had to do that once, too. Mine was...

Nicely done! (I had to do that once, too. Mine wasn't nearly as neat)

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It's always interesting to see what one keeps ...

It's always interesting to see what one keeps when they purge a room, house, or garage for whatever reason. Before I do any of that, i ask my kids to see if they want anything - you never know what odd thing contains a vivid memory for someone else.

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Cooker Cleaning

I used some powerful spray stuff to clean the cooker, and it started to strip the writing from the surface, so I stopped and took a photo.

Cooker

I've written what I think it should say on the photo below. I'll refer back to this if I get confused when cooking …

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Preserves

Andy's starting a new venture involving various preserves. It hasn't officially been launched yet, but here are a couple of preview photos:

Jam 1

Jam 2

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Room for rent

I've posted an ad for a room to rent in my house. Here are a couple of the pictures I took for the advert:

Patio Door

Front

Really I need to take some photos of the room itself!

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Patent encumbered codecs in the UK

In Ubuntu I installed the H.264 and MPEG-4AAC decoders in the belief that this is legal since the UK doesn't recognize software patents. Despite searching, I couldn't confirm this, so I've decided not to use them. It's difficult to uninstall the codecs so I'm simply going to not install …

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Another vine mess!

The latest news in the vine saga is that I've planted all three vines against the wall:

Vines

The two on the left (Alastair Reynolds and Iain Banks) are a black grape (vitis cabernet sauvignon bp), and the one on the right (Peter Watts) is a white grape (vitis chardonnay g …

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The Severn Estuary

The other Saturday there was off-road karting for a stag day. I got a lift to the karting with two geo-caching devotees, and they stopped off by the Severn Estuary to find a cache.

Severn Estuary

I took a photo of the karting track just as we were about to leave. I …

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Helping dad clear out his garage

I helped my dad clear out his garage before he moved house. We found a pentagonal box that I'd made for him and my mother when I was about 13. We used it as the family's laundry box for years.

Box

Father has recently shaved his beard off. He's growing it …

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