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Googlefight predicts Martian downfall

The second Death Star in Return of the Jedi

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A few days ago in work I was in the toilet when I considered that I wasn’t satisfied with Darth Vadar’s statement that “The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of the…

Wine fermentation - the revenge

Today is day 8 of the great wine making experiment - so it was time to move on from stage one fermentation (the bucket stage) to stage two.

This is what the wine in potentia looked at the end of stage…

Wine - in the mix

After day one’s anti-climax I was eager to set my wine off on day two, and that I have done. Sanitised all the equipment, rinsed it thoroughly and then it was on to mixing the ingredients.

Adding the toasted oak

With that done it’s just…

Toasty Wine

Well, I broke out the wine making kit today, as promised (illustrated below).

I started reading the instructions and discovered day one would be a bit of an anti-climax.

The Wine Making Kit Powders, Yeast and Stuff

It recommends using bottled or distilled water or leaving tap water over night…

Pop. Eating itself.

I’ve been having a bit of a lazy day today - just watching mindless television in between browsing and sorting through photos from the interdepartmental football tournament (which I’ll post about separately). On my browsing I visited PWEInation and they had…