Worst verse in the Bible

Hop over to Rectors' Ramblings who has just posted a video from Ship of Fools.

Take a look at the Internet Explorer 8 one too.

The plumber has been back to look at our new boiler. In the course of his visit he said I have to have my hot water set at 60 degrees to kill the salmonella! How many raw chickens are there in my hot water tank? I have tried to Google this to check but so far have come up with nothing.

Shopping

I have done too much shopping over the last few days both online and in real shops. If you are really interested there's a list at the end of this post.

What annoyed me today was my visit to Sainsbury's. Over the tannoy came,

"Colleague announcement: Sharon to Till 4 please". Whatever happened to "Staff announcement"?

What sad git sits in an office and thinks up politically correct tannoy announcements? I am now used to British Rail (if they are still called that) and their "Customer announcements" which replaced "Passenger announcements".

What's next I wonder?

Shopping List

• Epson Printer
• Ink for printer
• Croquet clothes (waterproofs, white V-neck pullover and a fleece)
  
• Slippers
• Pajamas
• Food (twice)
• Petrol
• Booking a holiday
• Tyre puncture repair (thankfully a new tyre was not needed)

New printer

I now have a new printer/scanner, an Epson SX200. Truth be known I bought it because it was cheap (not the cheapest) and I can get cheap compatible cartridges to go in it. I've just printed a test page and I think it is a bit noisy, so the review I found was, sadly, correct. We have a DX3800 with the family PC downstairs, which is fine, and the cartridges I bought for my old D68 fit that so that's good.

This printer/scanner cost me just under £50 from Argos. The local Tesco stock Lexmark printers and, yesterday, they also had one Epson SX200 in stock for about £73: I ask you! Today they had a dozen or so but I couldn't see the price; no reason to suppose they had lowered it.

Our first ever printer was an HP 640C but we never had any joy with refilled cartridges; they were always rubbish so we had to buy genuine ones. If I ever get to rule the world I shall dictate that there will be - at most - only half a dozen types of printer in the world; they will all take the same cartridges and be environmentally friendly by virtue of the fact they can be refilled and used many times.

Darn

My printer has just stopped working; it was OK yesterday. Having looked at Epson's website I find the problem is simply the sponges inside which soak up excess ink are full and need replacing. Do I want to pay to have them replaced when a new printer/scanner (which I do now need) is around £50? Well no, but I do detest the throw-away society in which we live. I shall Freecycle it in the hope somebody will want to fix it.

End of Term

We broke up today so it was prize-giving and sports day. We have various colleagues leaving and changes in the timetable from September.

One friend of mine - in a one-man department - knows that a new (female) colleague will be doing some teaching in his department next year. Until now he has obviously not had to hold departmental meetings. He has a dry sense of humour and seriously quipped that he would not longer be able to hold his departmental meetings (during which he talks to himself) in the shower after sport lessons. "At least" he said, "I shall not mention - for a week or so into next term - that this is where I hold department meetings." I thought this very funny and put forward a suggestion that they could take it in turns to bring the shower gel.

It is always sad to see people leave; this year I was sad to see a few boys leaving. Next year will be worse because the leavers will be boys who arrived at the school when I did.

Runny Nose

I have a bloody cold. What's more my daughter has one too. Who thought up colds? What is the point? I feel dreadful.

13

I don't much like being 13 stone and a having 36 inch waist. I need to lose weight. I once got down to 11 stone, from 12. Too many school dinners (puddings mainly) don't help.

I played croquet today but I was bushed after 2 hours. The Octogenarians I play with just kept going!

I'll keep you posted - maybe.