Mern Þonke

Yesterday's plans were disrupted by my discovery that my copy of Microsoft Outlook had become corrupted and had not sent any mail for the past week. After I spent about two hours fixing the problem, I set out to return to the Saturday I had intended to have. But then there was a loud "glug glug" sound, and dirty water started well up into our sinks and overflow. It turns out that there was a block in the sewer line. Eight hours later, after much flooding and working with plumbers, the problem is fixed, but we are still cleaning up the mess. So much for a relaxing weekend. Alas, my planned entry on reforming PhD programmes will have to wait...