Apres le deluge, moi

Flood
Visits from joiners' and painters' supervisors today to view the depressing scene in the function room. All the ceiling paper will have to come off along with the paper on the end wall and the plasterboarding above the walkway to the beer garden. It's unclear at the moment whether the ceiling in the function room will have to be replaced. The insurance company are sending an assessor to have a look.

Guests
A family who stayed with us a week ago have written a very positive review of the hotel on laterooms. There have been times recently (lots of them) when we've had trouble remembering why on earth we're here and things like that help to remind us. Thank you!

Nerdy
I spent this morning (well, twenty minutes of it anyway) loading Linux Mandrake 8.2 on a spare PC. This is because Kylix, the development software I use is only certified to work on that version. It is possible to find workarounds for later distributions, but the number of annoying faults that this causes makes reverting to the earlier version worthwhile. 8.2 dates from 2002 (ancient history in software terms) and looks rather quaint - imagine the look of Windows 3.1 with the functionality of '98. It loads in a fraction of the time of the current version, though it has no idea what a DVD is! I look forward to being able to add a new form to a project without the whole thing hanging up.