Start: 95.4 Last week: 90.1 This week: 88.6
Wednesday 12 December: Yup, it has been almost two months, and a packed time at that. Barely time to glug my oil. But I'm back on that now, and still bouncing around the 88-89 kg mark. I suppose that by now I should know that it neither goes on nor come...

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The Last King of Scotland is a pretty exciting tale to file under “innocents abroad”. What is this hell hole I’ve wandered into, and how do I get out? Except that for the most part, the hell hole is really rather attractive, at least to the hero, who doesn’t start to wonder about getting out until...

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There’s trouble at my blog. Used to be, you could go to jeremycherfas.net/wp or wp.jeremycherfas.net and end up at the same place -- here. But some time back -- don’t know when, don’t know where -- the second option stopped working. I tinkered, but couldn’t seem to fix it. So now the home address is...

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Al Gore, accepting his Nobel prize:

In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with two symbols, the first meaning “danger,” the second “opportunity.” By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authorit...

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The blog has taken a back seat of late; we moved, we have no internets, we are tired, we have no time at work. But the whole chaotic jumble is beginning to sort itself out, witness the loaves:

Three sourdough loaves, cut open, to show improvement after successive bakes

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