It’s conference season, lots of meeting up with people from all over the world. Statistically, at least one person will be carrying COVID (case rate is currently 1.7 per 100,000 people, many people attending will have travelled internationally, number of connections exceeds 100,000). I wasn’t eligible for a free booster this year, so I paid …
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The end.
I was an early adopter of twitter; I had a three character user name. I made friends on Twitter, I mourned friends passing on Twitter. I’ve been elsewhere for a couple of years. I made the twitter account private, but didn’t delete the content. I suppose I was hoping sane hands would take over – …
Minneapolis
Never tease a post with “report to come” you’ll not get around to writing it. In the US for family stuff for the next couple of weeks.
Cherry picking
The cherries have been ripe for over a week, but today was the first chance we had to go picking. The train broke down at Tonbridge, so we took a cab to the farm. My tree, number 1909, hadn’t been totally ravaged by the local starlings, and we picked a good 5kg or so of …
Cherries
I love cherries. Not the big bright red ones you see at the market, those loosk great, but taste of nothing – or taste of green. I like a sharp, juicy cherry. Last year, and this year, Meagen has bought me a rental of a cherry tree for Christmas. Yesterday we went to see the …