Rich of March House

Now that summer is here there's lots to do in the grounds of March House and Claire has been busy planting, transplanting and digging the estate so that we'll end up with a garden that looks rather nice.

In her toils today she dug up this curio.  It's a small plane about 6cm long and its made out of lead, which is why it looks all floppy (easily soft enough to bend by hand) and is surprisingly heavy.  Anyone have a clue as to what sort of plane it's meant to be?

More interesting things dug up to appear in the future, including a glass bloater paste bottle, part of a television, a vertebra and a golf ball.

Claire's been sorting out some stuff from our office and shredding our past.  In amongst it all she's found our first ISP correspondence (Easynet, 1995) and also a cheque for £1.16 to me from Orange from the year 2000.  I'm going to pay it into the bank tomorrow and by doing so I'll invalidate all of Orange's accounts, and therefore shareholder payments, for the last eight years.  Be very afraid if you have shares in Orange.

The negative side:

• 10 hour work days every day
• Operating in firefighting mode all the time
• All the staffing issues in the world
• Not having enough time to solve puzzles about Venn diagrams for a PuzzleDonkey relaunch
• Losing any desire to post a new blog entry

The positive side: