... as an explanation. This blog has been getting an awful lot of neglect really. It isn’t the first time, and it is often at around this time of year. And the same excuses that applied back then still apply, somewhat.

Somewhere, irrationally, I really do believe that I have only a certain numbe...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.9 This week: 88.3
Tuesday 19 June: Can it really be 50 weeks since I started this in earnest? Yes, it can. And I’ve been thinking a bit about why I seem to have plateaued, big-time. The simple answer is that I’m not far off where I want to be. No motivation. So the morni...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.1 This week: 88.0
Tuesday 5 June: A weekend away in the Big Wen, and no gains to show for it. No oil either. That’s kinda pleasing, inasmuch as it suggests that I have an element of control myself even when I don’t have any oil to back me up.

I am extremely heartened by Minnesota’s decision to protect its state grain, wild rice. Resources will be ploughed into investigating the status of the plant itself in the Land of Lakes and, more importantly, into monitoring any and all attempts to interfere directly with its DNA. The legislation ha...

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Over at the Sustainable Food Laboratory blog [they're asking]http://blog.sustainablefoodlab.org/?p=31 ¹ “How long, one wonders, before the term organic is rendered meaningless and doesn’t do anyone — farmers, food companies, or consumers — any good?”. Why? Because the USDA’s new guidelines for o...

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