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

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 …

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.

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

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.

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

Ben sent me a BBC article that contained the following paragraph:

Spread Networks has been building one such fibre-optic connection, shaving three microseconds off the 825-mile (1327km) trading journey between Chicago and New York.

I thought it's got to be 3 milliseconds, not microseconds. Doing some sea[]{#goog_2120667989}[]{#goog_2120667990}rching …

I'm reading Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series in a bit of a random order. I've just finished Chasm City. As I read, I find myself thinking that the characters are humans in an unusual setting. Whereas I think that our future is that we'll become less human. Our brains haven't …

Now and again I make an edit to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which makes me eligible to vote in the Image Filter Referendum. I read the debate that's going on, but I don't really have strong views. I suppose I don't really see the need for an image filter. I'm sort …

On Saturday I went to the garden centre in Bath and bought a grape vine which I took home on the train.

Here's where it's going to go.

First I've got to get to grips with the double Guyot method.

Went to Oxford on Wednesday last week to visit Matt. We strolled among the ruins of a nunnery.

We were lucky enough to see an actual nun standing in the doorway.

This astroturf in the South Gate shopping centre in Bath reminded me of Bear v Shark, lent to me by Ben. In it, the concrete is painted green and considered far superior to grass.

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