Knee is good, thank goodness. Been taking lots of anti-inflammatories and have had it strapped up.

I’m recording about 20 radio shows. Partly just to get ahead, and partly because if I’m coming to the UK again, I need to have shows that can be played while I’m away.

Also I tried to mow my (rather large$ lawn and my lawnmower broke down. So I’ve been running around all the lawnmowing shops, trying to find a good quality one to buy to replace it.

So annoying when major items like that go.

Good to hear that the knee is ok. Is the swelling going down at all?

It gives a surprising impression of efficiency to join the crew mid-operation, rather than seeing all the bickering beforehand.

That’s from playing Blake’s 7 over and over.

I like Vila's patter with the guards - but what idiots they were not to just shoot him!

Glad to hear about the knee. Hope you find a good lawnmower soon.

I've been getting a new laptop this week, so if all goes well I will be watching on it next week. I've been finding it surprisingly hard, as all my previous laptops have been bought for me for one project or another - but hopefully it will be foolproof enough.

And SLD a lot more than the rest!!

Ha ha - I've got my DVD going - now I can watch it twice, although with about 15 minutes time distort.
Hi, Anne. Sorted your lessons out yet?

Yep, swelling is almost gone. :-)

Rather better this week, thank you - the assignments turned out to be quite well done when I marked them on Thursday, and the students were reassured that, on this showing, they would have passed the exam. But the two students I am really worried about weren't there - one was ill, but the other seems to have just dropped out, which is worrying.

Only if it takes your numbers below the funding threshold!

Only if it takes your numbers below the funding threshold!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6??? um one is missing. Six isn’t a very high number to count to, you’d had a thought one of them could’ve counted that high.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6??? um one is missing. Six isn’t a very high number to count to, you’d had a thought one of them could’ve counted that high.

Here in Australia they'd be passed anyway. No-one fails; everyone wins a prize; elephant stamps all round.

Counting is hard. I was once asked to count down from 8, and missed out 7. My friend/teacher told me to do it again, and I did. 8,6,5,4,3,2,1.

Excuse me, SHE is on screen....

Golly I wish I’d gone to those classes.

What do you teach AnneArthur?

Golly I wish I’d gone to those classes.

I teach Old French language to MA students in Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Medieval History. It's one of a number of language options, with Latin, Old English, Old Norse and Arabic.

What do you teach AnneArthur?

What on earth is an elephant stamp??

Say it Jenna. Guilt like Blake's isn't rational.

I teach Old French language to MA students in Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Medieval History. It's one of a number of language options, with Latin, Old English, Old Norse and Arabic.

Just a stamp of an elephant that teacher can put on a kiddies school work when they’ve done well.

Might be worth a try, Anne? Motivational, and all that.

How does Arabic manage to be linked with that bunch of languages? Old Norse is an interest of mine.

It occurs to me now that Servalan's long white dress might have been influenced by Princess Leia's in Star Wars - it's a sign of how much she made it her own that I'm only just thinking this now.