Could this be one of the greatest speeches of our time?. Stephen Fry talks with such enthusiasm and gusto about the BBC - its past and its possible future. This is something that every British person, scrap that, every person should listen to and hopefully be inspired by.

Better late than never!

Am back to full health and enjoying the rest of my holiday in rainy Poole. So, not scared at all - apart from the apparent ‘productive’ week up in London! Its OK boys, we’ll get there!!

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 40.8cm (+6.9cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 47.2cm (+17.6cm)
Tomatoes: 0

We are very please to announce that the new site for 3will.co.uk is now live for the whole world to see. We have relaunched the blog site with a completely new style and logo.

3will wanted something that would deliver his blog quickly and easily but not losing to much of it’s easy to use blog structure. With the logo and design we had a completely open brief, the only criteria being that the logo needed to be “thought provoking”.

3will is the blog for Leinz (London based graphic artist) with all the articles falling into 3 categories: News, Views and Art - with the focus needing to way heavier on the art.

Right time to “Geek Out’ people. I went out at the weekend and impulse purchased a Playstation 3. Yes its overpriced, yes it hasn’t got as many games available as the Xbox 360, yes it looks like a next generation George Foreman Grill… but it it Black, Shiny and once you are using it online it shows up in google analytics!

Round of applause for Sony everybody.

I am proud to welcome you to the third Tomato Tuesday. Things have been going great in London with a lot of growth with ‘The Perilous’ Plum nearly 21cm taller than last Tomato Tuesday, unfortunately no tommies to report. But I am getting a little impatient and hungry as this gardening lark takes much longer than I thought it would.

Stew is not around today to report on his plants progress due to illness (or being scared - you decide) but he will be posting his stats as soon as he is better (less scared).

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 50.5cm (+12.9cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 45.4cm (+18.9cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 45.9cm (+14.5cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 54.6cm (+20.9cm)
Tomatoes: 0

After building the new site for nomar you would not believe the problems to make sure it looks right and works even better, not because we are bad at what we do, but because Microsoft are really bad at what they do.

Every time nomar builds a website, we get it working fine on all the less popular browsers - Safari, Firefox, Opera but Internet Explorer is the problem child, the runt of the litter if you will. This is due to Microsoft’s persistence for not conforming to the latest web standards, the standards that are set to make it easier for you the user to get the same experience no matter which browser you choose to use. For more information please click here.

Happy ‘British Tomato Week‘!

A big ‘thank you’ to all those who supported me during difficult times last week and a special mention to my courageous tomato plants - without them, this competition is pointless. The allegations were lifted and the official TT rules released. I am now looking forward to spending some quiet time with my tomatoes. Anyway, not one to dwell on pain…

Like the weather, it has been a mixed week down in Poole. The snails have got to the courgettes and peppers, but (luckily) haven’t found the tomatoes yet (or maybe they know about Tomato Tuesday and want me to win… hmm).

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 33.9cm (+6.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 29.6cm (+13.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

We would like to bring your attention to the fact that this week is British Tomato Week. You can celebrate later (in your own way), we have serious business to attend to…

Below are the rules of engagement for participants in Tomato Tuesday. If this strict code of sportsmanship is not adeared to - participants will be disqualified.

• Measurement from soil to top of plant (no pulling)
• Plant food (organic or synthetic) is allowed.
• Competition closes Tuesday 29th July 2008.

Good luck gentlemen.

So it’s now the second week of Tomato Tuesday and the competition is heating up with some great weather and a generous helping of rain in London my plants are looking great and growing quick. There has been some growth across all varieties but some it seems are saving their energy for popping out some tommies not in growing tall.

With the doping allegations being dropped by the panel of experts it seems that sky is now the limit to how high these bad boys can grow - and it seems there is only one question these plants are asking… “Please sir may i have more”

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 37.6cm (+9.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 26.5cm (+2.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 31.4cm (+8cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 33.7cm (+5cm)
Tomatoes: 0

The underdog with only two types of plant (the far left is a pepper plant - apparently that doesn’t count), that have to ’slum it’ in a growbag in Poole - which may mean that everything’ll taste like seaweed. Luckily - unlike Alan - I’m organised, which should account for some efficient tomato… um, growth…

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 27.8cm
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 16.2cm
Tomatoes: 0