The BEEB, a printer and a killer

31 July 2013

The BEEB has finally got the forecast right!  They forecast rain all day and that's just we've had.  Good job we hadn't planned anything for today then eh?

While I was in Devon Jan went off to see her sister again.  She came back here with an Epson continuous ink printer/scanner/fax machine.  I spent some time yesterday trying to get it set up.  It has installed but the disc with the Windows 7 drivers won't load.  I shall try again soon but if not I shall have to go and get me a new one.  This Epson is 4 years old anyway. 

The News has a sad story in the front page this morning; sad and sickening!  A 57 year old lady living in a flat just off the town centre was attacked in her home and killed - with a garden folk.  The killer then walked off around the town centre, bought himself a fast meal, drew some cash out of his victim's bank.  He later told a number of people of what he had done.  Anyway, he was found guilty but couldn't be sentenced cos he was ill and couldn't travel to court.  Now he has to wait till September to find out what sentence he will face - unless he pulls another sickie that is.

I've been enjoying Peter James's Roy Grace novels.  He has Grace watching suspect's eyes during interview and the claim is that depending which way his eyes go when he answers is an indication of if he is telling the truth or not.  It's all down to left and right sided brains, one being a creative side, t'ther being the factual side.  To make sure he knows which side is which Grace asks a simple control question, something like, "What is your name please?"  It all sounds good in the novels, but just how real is it.  To try to find out I have bought Psychology for Dummies  and Teach Yourself Psychology in an attempt to find out.  If it right, then I hope the crims don't pick up on it and try to use to fool the cops.  That would be a sad day.

Today's photo is of a MG ... 

It seemed to catch the mood for a lot of women did this car.  I say that guardedly in as much as I don't remember seeing many men driving one.  Same happened years ago with the original BMC wedge, the A 45.

And another short funny today ...            

A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds:
'Husband Wanted'.
Next day she received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing:
'You can have mine.'