James Webster’s Weblog

My cycle route to work is full of blackberries so I’m making the most of it and picking a punnet most evenings. The freezer is getting full so I thought I’d make up a recipe:
Ingredients
300g fresh west oxfordshire blackberries
75g fairtrade golden caster sugar
75g margarine
1 free range organic egg
125g organic plain flour
1.5  tsp baking powder
little bit [...]

Taking photos of the tent as you unpack it for the first time is something I always thought I must do. Finally I actually remembered.
I give you the monster Outwell Georgia XL in 16 photos.
Despite the detailed photo log it still didn’t go back in the bag the same way it came out. However it [...]

I recently had a query asking how to minimise spam. I was halfway through replying about how mail clients like Thunderbird handle spam when I realised that I get very little spam. My work account at Amazon gets lots of spam but they have a heavyweight server to detect it and my mail rules do [...]

I’ve wanted to jog regularly, or more accurately run, since I was young. Until the last month it never quite worked probably because I focused on speed not distance . Suddenly I’m running several times a week and loving it, looking forward to the next opportunity. There are a few reasons behind this but a [...]