In December, it snowed heavily in Cambridge, so I went out one day to take pictures. Having spent a some time looking at the landscape and taking pictures I wasn't entirely satisfied with, I then did that thing I usually do: notice some minute detail and spend twenty minutes taking photos of it. In this case, it was a set of icicles stuck to the underside of a car, with the setting sun lighting them from behind.

As for the pictures of the rose, there's a story behind it. More than three years ago, I taped a single rose to the front door of this woman I liked. Since the roses had come in a bundle, I chose to stick one of its siblings into the soil of my back garden.

We've now been very happily together for two and a half years - and the rose is blooming, in December, despite having been mobbed by weeds, trampled, and repeatedly uprooted in the intervening time.

Unfortunately, dropping temperatures have left me with a very stiff neck and shoulders, which means that working on the computer is pretty painful at the moment.

As a result, Space Exploration dev 10 still is not ready. However, I assure you that I remain very much committed to the game. It will just take a bit longer to finish than I planned.

Space Exploration dev 10 still is not quite ready, I'm afraid. The engine work is done, and now I'm adding some new encounters and improving old ones. This process is estimated to take another two weeks, though I'm rather conscious of the fact that I've said "it'll be ready in two weeks" for, um, months now. Much like fusion power, dev 10 is always just around the corner. However, also much like fusion power, a lot of progress is being made - it's just not very visible to the public.

Anyway, to divert you while you wait, I've done you a render of some Neman spaceships. The Nemans are set to play a rather more prominent role in dev 10...