Skip The Budgie

We have this machine in our kitchen that provides you with hot water for your teas and coffees. No, it's not the nuclear kettle, more an urn of some description that is always on. It exists because we are supposed to be nice to the environment and it uses much less power than the kettles, which are also pretty much on permanently. There is a constant dispute that rages about whether the water is too cool for tea, too hot for coffee and vice versa.

I don't really care. My coffee tastes the same whether it comes out of the kettle or the water heater. It is nice organic proper coffee too, via cafetiere and everything. Tea always tastes like dishcloths, so that doesn't bother me either.

Imagine my surprise then, when I am challenging one of the academics to stick his hand under the water heater if he thinks it's not hot enough for his tea! Okay, so it's half eight in the morning and my sarcasm is on overdrive, but the dude has filled a kettle that has JUST boiled from the water heater that provides water at just under boiling point!

He sees nothing wrong with this! Well it's not HOT enough from there, is it? he opines, putting the cheapest generic tea bag the faculty can find into his cup, as if reboiling already boiled and heated water will be able to make it taste better.

I send an email to the Faculty.

If you put notices on classroom doors, please DO NOT stick them on top of the room timetable, for obvious reasons!

I ache from spending the weekend digging a hole in the garden. I fail to find anything of real interest, save for a little lead horse and rider. I say "weekend", I mean a few hours each day as it's hard work for my old bones.