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After much cogitation have now decided to go for the deer fence and now have around £150 worth of materials to erect the fence with. Decided against a strand of barbed wire along the top - apparently a good deterent at the margin - mainly on the grounds that I do not need 200m of the stuff. Decided against the hole digging contraption (two long handled narrow bladed spades mounted roughly as scissors. Ram the thing in, clamp the handles together and pull up the cylindrical plug of clay) - mainly on the grounds that £45 +VAT was a lot to pay for a toy I will probably only get to use once or twice. As it is I will not get a very good return in terms of fruit but I am sure I will in other ways. Decided against stock fencing in favour of chicken netting. The former is heavier guage wire which would have laster longer and been better proof against the council grass butchers but would also have been heavy and awkward to manage (tends to behave like a spring when you try to unroll it) and it had large holes which deer could poke their muzzles through - far enough to grab things that they shouldn't.

Started cogitation about whether to do a registry edit to stop Microsoft remembering passwords - which I don't like on a shared, open access computer. Rather to my surprise it was easy enough to find out how to do this but the instructions come with all kinds of health warnings about how you might have to reinstall windows if you get it wrong. The support team at the Treasury used to do this sort of thing routinely but I have never done it. Pity I havn't got a spare computer I don't care about to play with.

Raided the sprog2 DVD trunk for something called descent last night. Not bad at all and had me completely convinced that the thing had been made in the Appalachians using a real large cave. BH viewed the beard material that comes with the DVD and it turns out the thing was made entirely in England, mostly in a smallish room in the Pinewood Studios. Wonderful stuff polystyrene! Horror plot fairly straighforward, with the interesting update on the lady front. Instead of busty blondes being ravished by dashing middle European aristo vampires you had a team of atheletically enabled young ladies indulging in bonding and then getting knocked off by undergound humanoids. Maybe a more third millenium way to pull the femail (or female?) audiences. The only catch was that they all looked much the same to me, especially when they were crawling around in the dark covered in goo. Made it quite hard to follow the bonding side of things.

Starting to get the hang of this MP3 lark and am now the proud owner of 9 playlists. Not so convinced that the laptop is up to the second batch though- Beethoven violin sonatas - not doing so well with two instruments at once as with one. So next step when I get bored with the fence is to work out how to pump MP3 through my existing amplifier...