[penelope] Watch out for clog-wearing mice in that windmill. The staircases are infested with them from all accounts.

I did have a plan last year to take an A-level every year for the next ten years. I think I've missed the deadline to enter for French this year, so maybe I'll start the mission next year and do two (to catch up). The plan is that if someone says to my daughter when she's 18, "oh, I've got 7 A-levels", she can reply, "well, my dad's got 14." The only extra proviso for this is that I don't attend any lessons/lectures in order to gain the qualifications - I'll rely on reading what the syllabus is, and a bit of common sense in terms of background reading. And, yes I've checked, there are still exam boards that do not require coursework :-)

(SM) Mine must have been a purely local problem due to malfunctioning switches or transformers and not insufficient supply. This was just one phase down or out over about a square mile.

[Sierra Mike] I have my own clogs for stamping on said mice - they came as a present from the Miller last weekend. Luckily they were filled with chocolate as a sweetener...

Hope there's good ventilation, in case he's Windy.

[IS,P!] Hmmph. He's a Dutch Miller. Have you got a pic of one of those?

[pen] He's a film star? Seems a little on the old side for you, mind.

[Darren] Still, he does well, considering he died 15 years ago.

I thought he seemed a bit quiet. Just my luck :o(

Hello nights. It takes a bit more than emboldened shouting to scare me off! How are you? I've got a post holiday cold. Grump.

Where is everyone today? Not very chatty? Cheer up. Its almost the weekend!

Hello all. It's a long time since I've been in here. Very smart.

Sorry Lib - I was enjoying a bacon sandwich...

[UK] I'd have thought you'd have a bit of a sore head!

[Lib] Well, fortunately it hadn't been cooked too fiercely. But getting the grease out of my hair is going to be a bind...

It doesn't matter how sh*tty the week has been , Friday always lifts the mood, doesn't it? Anyone know of any nice jobs going for someone bossy, intelligent and good at news writing? CV available on request. And The Dutch Miller is coming over again next weekend, :o)

Oh, and a lovely bit of spamming, which is a natural glow-worm or something: "ON fenugreek do maladroit.."

[pen] I think the next line is "beware the Jabberwock, my son!"

Morniverse seems slow today, or am I just toooooooo bored at work?

(UK) Not just today, either. The place seems infected with a kind of ennui. It'll pass, no doubt.

[Rosie] Well, I was hoping that someone might guess my AVMA before I left the office today, as I may well not be back online until Monday morning.

It's always very slow on Fridays. In fact I recall it being even less busy last Friday. Not that I check in here obsessively the whole time, of course.

Saturday was a non-starter.