Ok, so the mystery of what on earth haw flakes are made from hasn’t been that mysterious for a while now, but now that I’ve got a photo showing the ingredients of haw flakes as ‘hawthorn’, I just have to do this.

It’s worth noting that this brand are a very pale colour and possibly not as addictive as the brand with the red, green and yellow packaging. I also found fancy triangular layered haw the other day – red layered with a darker, jammier layer of haw. Mmm, hot haw action.

“I have a PhD in computing.”
The quote is right at the end but it’s worth reading the whole thing.

Ooh, and there’s a film of The Dark is Rising in post-production. I wonder what it’ll be like? And I guess that means the books will be re-issued.

As a sign of how strange my life is sometimes, I present a list of the parcels on my desk when I got into the office on Monday:
a top from Lochers
a copy of the Newsletter of the * Research Society that had a paper I’d written in it
Susan Hill’s “The Dark is Rising” (a nostalgia kick hit me at the same time I was browsing Green Metropolis and I’m curious to see how I’d read it now I’ve been to places like Wales)
Shirley Hazzard’s “The Great Fire”.

An old but still amusing story: Rolf escapes accordion blaze.