Mr Bear

If you mean the side nearest the sea then the bushes and hedges are trimmed, but the grass is allowed to grow wild at this time of year "meadow style" deliberately. I really like it. The natural growth is varied and interesting. Having been in the park today I'd say it's looking fine.

It wasn't actually in the script. He just shook his head.

I once offered Inspector Rebus a doobie. OK, it was a fake doobie and I was playing the part of a thug, but in the magic world of TV it did actually happen.

Hmm, something royal is going down right now. I just thought I'd get the thread started early. So is it the Queen or her hubby? Are we about to get a new king?

Hold on, I've got a set of Tarot cards here... Ilap:- As the darkness of the winter months lifts, the loneliness you have felt will diminish and you will feel a new zest for life with a greater appreciation of your independence and the simplicity and freedom it brings.

A friend had a job on a live Tarot reading line for a while. They had a big book of phrases like those above and if the person didn't ask anything specific they just read on from where they had left off as they worked through the book. If they asked a specific question they turned to the part of the book with that theme, chose a sentence and read it. I guess it will be a computer database now. Mystic Derek :- You are experiencing a time of financial difficulty, but you must not clutch at straws in the hope that fortune may come your way. You must accept the challenge that has been given and seek a means of honest income that serves both you and society.

Beware if you are going to Disneyland as Pluto is pulling out of Saturn's ring and is about to slam into Uranus.

Oh no! Spain said no. Just Spain. Who aren't exactly a shining pinnacle of excellence in Europe. If Scotland does go the independent route, I wonder if it will be real independence. Not Manx style independence where you have a pretend government while ramming your tongue so far up the English government's ass that it comes out red. (Yes, I'm being shamelessly provocative.)

Having recently had proper Poutine I thought that the cheese curds made it less enjoyable than the traditional chips, cheese and gravy sold on the IOM. The grated cheese has better texture and more flavour than the curds.

The bit about China is interesting. Any time I access a Chinese manufacturers website to download a datasheet it takes ages for the connection to be established and then ages to download it. And it's not surprising one of the largest bitcoin miners is in China, where the technology and manpower to build the mining system is cheaper than anywhere else.

Bitcoin is not "f*cked". It'll be about for the foreseeable future. What is interesting is that it is a pioneering digital currency showing what obstacles can occur. That report was written by a disgruntled individual who is probably feeling the pinch because he was trying to make a career in Bitcoin and hasn't got his way.

I'd like to suggest a new currency called dick-coin where you pay with sexual favours. I'm going to call it a nymphocurrency and it will use an online control system called cock-blocks.

I'd say it's got a long way to go to catch up with the American dollar.

Part of me actually wants to accept Bitcoin for my sales of electronic kits. Bit in the past its volatility made that a bit shady as the value could plummet below the cost of the materials. But it does seem to be getting stable now. However... In the future with massive processing power and the necessary knowledge it could surely be possible to clone existing bitcoins and effectively steal them?