Those of you who’ve commented recently will notice that you now have to register. Don’t worry, I’m not harvesting your email addresses for later sale to eastern european organ-traffickers or anything, I just saw a checkbox in wordpress’s config that said “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” so I checked it. [ Rich notes that this ends up sending you your password in plain text in email. sorry about that I will fix it forthwith ]
I’m still getting spam from non-registered sources. So it looks like I’ve penalised the legitimate posters without preventing the illegitimate. Well done on THAT one, wordpress.
Made my first Sunday roast for years yesterday. It was a qualified success. Corn-fed chicken has a slightly pungent flavour so I won’t be getting that again, and I didn’t manage to get my prize winning roasties right. The biggest problem was the fact it was getting cold by the time it was all served. Steve, Suzanne and Emmie agree that I should practice more. Yum.
Sunday was also great weather for digging a pond at Kim’s place. But we did it in the pissy rain on Saturday. That was great fun too, real playing in the mud stuff. We ended up with a team of 8, which was just perfect, two in the hole digging, two clearing stuff out into buckets, two taking the buckets and slinging the muck onto the pile, and two making tea and spotting when we’re going to dig up a bit we wanted to keep…