Ned went back to work last night after a week off while they replaced his machine (though it wasn't really a week off as he'd worked two weeks the week before). They promised it would be all-singing, all-dancing, up-and-running and making the tea when he clocked in. Hmm. You know what a technical "exploded drawing" looks like? Well, this was the real thing. An exploded machine. Walkways leading to nowhere (clearly the designer had been a failed 1960s town-planner in a previous existence). Odd bags of bits scattered around. "Show us how it works" he was told. "The computer will tell you how it does it". Unfortunately, the destructions were in German, and Ned's only phrase in German is "Zwei grosse bier bitte", which didn't appear anywhere on the screen. He spent the night cleaning it instead.

My tee-shirt didn't arrive today. Pity. I had plans for it tomorrow - maybe even advertise Thinging on TV! That would be a coup! I wonder if Liberty is really an 18-stone trucker called Bert?