13 December, 2005

It is raining … that nice sort of spring rain, very light, very wet, warm and great for the garden. It’s one of those days when it’s nice to work in the garage on something meaningless with the door open.

I have learned something new. Birds don’t like glazed cherries. We found an old fruit loaf thing in the cupboard that has been there for about 3 years (perfectly preserved I must say) and put it on the bird table. It has slowly disappeared leaving the cherries arranged in a strange tower of little green and red gems. Fair enough I say .. and it makes me wonder what has been done to the cherries to make birds stay away.

During this break I have been re-establishing my military training in the form of the PS2 game – Socom 2: Navy Seals. My original military training came in the form of the same game a few months previously. I suck at it. I am one of those people who can take cover behind a building and still be completely out in the open. Needless to say I get shot a lot and wouldn’t last three seconds in any real combat situation. I hardly last three seconds in a virtual combat situation.

I finally bought a set up for making wine so following Xmas I am into it. The first port of call is a simple wine kit to see how it goes but I now have a few friends who are able to provide reasonable quantities of fruit on the proviso they get a bottle or two of the finished product. That may or may not be a good payment but we’ll see.