Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.5 This week: 188
Tuesday 26 December: I realize that I simply have no will power. Or rather, I have no ability to absent myself from the table when others want to eat. Over the past few days the eating has not been excessive, not by any normal standards. But there have b...

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Ah, the bliss of an economic Christmas.

When a long time passes quickly, that’s a good sign. When you leave a movie thinking, “I wonder what that meant?”. Suspense without phony fear. Definitely a fine movie. Matt Damon is wonderfully repressed throughout, the only distraction being that I was continually reminded of an old and dear frien...

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Last time, I looked at research on the benefits of harvesting low-input high-diversity prairie plants as a feedstock for bioenergy. This week, practicalities and policies.

Biomass can be burned directly, alongside coal or some other fuel, as a source of energy for heat or power. But unless you’r...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 88.5
Tuesday 19 December: Back on a slightly even keel, and about to jet off again for the festive season. So the weighings will go to pot. I hope the weight doesn’t do the same.