After quite a long break over the Summer, I've finally started brewing again. On Monday night I put a Woodeforde's Wherry all malt kit on. I'm gonna keg this one and have it for xmas day at Rachel's place.
Since I started using yeast nutrients (a teaspoon in the water), my fermentations have been a lot quicker starting and seem more vigorous. Must say I'd recommend them.
Bob Brown, to the news that logging trucks were going to blockade Launceston in support of the PM on forestry:
"This is the axles of evil on show".
A beautiful quote from Howard in this article about Labor's long-awaited Tasmanian forests policy.
"It's a grubby preference deal" which is pretty amusing coming from the party that is preferencing right-wing Christian party Family First.
"and if he can break his word to the workers of Tasmania why should any Australian believe any promise he makes to them at any stage during this election campaign." So Mr Howard, is that a core promise or a non-core promise?
Holly and I went hiking in Snowdonia over the weekend with Andrew Allen and one of his mates. Andy, being the gung-ho type, insisted on doing the hardest route via Crib Goch which was more a rock climb than a scramble.
At about 17:00 we started to worry about daylight, and were just working out what we should do when some very experienced hill runners (yes, runners!) came up to us. They advised us to return the way we'd come, which was up a steep, rocky cliff.
With their help, we made it just in time for dusk. We're actually very very lucky that we ran into those guys when we did!
Now, however, we're both incredibly sore. It was probably the toughest "hike" I've ever done. And certainly the scariest.
Photos shortly.
I'm now, clearly, super-famous in blogistan. W00t!
Steve points out an interesting use of Firefox's new "Live Bookmark" feature. Point it at the RSS of your del.icio.us account and you've got instant synchronised bookmarks. This is a problem I've talked about before.
Only problem with this approach is you just get them in chronological order, losing all of del.icio.us's categorisation features. You can painstakingly go and add each category, but there needs to be a nicer solution.
My, isn't this a surprisingly on-message letter to the The Australian Times from one "Cameron Reynolds"
We keep trying to see Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut and being foiled. A week ago we tried to see it at The Other Cinema only to be foiled by the person I spoke to giving me the wrong time. Then we tried to see it at The Ritzy in Brixton only to be foiled by London Underground. We waited for half an hour at Victoria until we knew we were going to miss the film. Ack!
It's still on for the rest of the week, so hopefully we'll manage to catch it...
On Saturday Holly and I went to see some buildings as part of the London Open House thing. For one weekend each year, buildings, or parts of buildings, that are normally closed are open to the public. We saw the Royal Courts of Justice, 120 Fleet Street and Staple Inn.
Highlight was definitely the art deco interior of 120 Fleet Street, former home of the Daily Express. An absolutely amazing interior.
Photos we took are here.