Context is king. This picture is here for comparative reasons. From left to right we have a shop-purchased raisin, the experimental ex-grape itself and a shop-bought currant.

Day 14: 15/06/2006 08:29. After some foil-based sun action and several days, it seems the grape is becoming mishapen. There is a brown indentation on the right, and the grape is moving from being...grape shaped...to something less regular. It gives way a little when touched, like a shrunken head might. Relativey frequent dark speckles are there to be seen.

Day 22: 23/06/06 18:17. Just like many avid viewers of the grape-raisin extravaganza, the grape has deflated somewhat, hopefully preparing to enter the crinkled-goodness appearance of a raisin. It is going increasingly brown. Rather ominously, the underlying foil appears to have vanished, perhaps eaten by the Grape god furious that he/she is losing a prize specimen to dark side of raisinhood. A survey of nearby floor space reveals no obvious answers.

To add to the demonic possession theory, the grape is now regularly casting a shadow that is greatly larger than itself. This surely cannot be the stuff of normal planetary goings on.

Day 32: 4/7/06 17:35. Ooh, is that some true full scale rasin colour we see? Perhaps so. Now the fruit resembles a deflated brown bag, with a somewhat leathery hide. New doubts enter the Poorhouse's mind about when the experiment is over how tempting it will actually be to eat. Concerns are not helped by the appearance of a speck of what could be white mould centre-grape.

Although not being one to shy away from eating sweets that fell on the ground weeks ago and have been several-times urinated on by four legged beasts, it is as yet more than copable with.

Day 49: 21/7/06 08:31. 10 days later, not that much change. But this could be because it has actually pretty much turned into a raisin? It is dark and crumpled like most raisins are, but somehow seems a bit too baggy.

However it is possible that as the Poorhouse has only really seen raisins that have been mashed together and heavily compacted in bags for dirty great supermarkets, this is their normal state. Some research will be done to compare what we have created in this grape-lab to a standard raisin in order to determine the next action. It is quite possible that the Great Day Of Tasting It is soon to be upon us.

Day 63: 4/8/06 17:35. Another couple of weeks on and the object d'art is looking...pretty much the same. Hmm. Is this the end of the road? Is this what a fresh homemade non-packed-and-sent-around-the-world-twelve-times raisin looks like? It seems increasingly likely.

The only thing that can be reported really is that whilst caressing the Poorhouse protege it was determined that it felt more like a raisin than previously. 'twas a bit more solid, and the folds and grooves were somewhat more resistant to pressure.

Is the end nigh?