Open Radiators

The new heating which is being installed is getting there, slowly. One of the major jobs which they performed over the half term break was to bleed the system dry and carry out some major re-fitting work to some of the pipes.

The system bleed must have taken hours. All the radiators had to be emptied. Bearing in mind that we have about 100 classrooms/labs, and about the same number of offices and store rooms, and what feels like miles of corridoors, all with their own radiators, I would have thought that it would have taken the bestter part of a day getting the system dry.

Trouble came when they re-filled the system. They hadn't bothered to close all the radiators. We now have one very wet, soggy, and needless to say, smelly lab. Rather unfortunate that the radiator that had been left open was one of the ones over the carpet. The humidity in that room is sky high, with the dehudidifyers on full whack 24/7.

Obviously the room is now completely unusable. Classes have been moved into the form room next door, but its no ideal. The room really can only sit about 20/25 students comfortably, and packing in 30 odd resembles an educational game of sardines.

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Competition/Give Away Winner

well, what an underwhelming response that was. Two people. I had kinda hoped for a little larger response, but this could be the internet telling me that all my page hits are actually non-sentient 'bots' just trawling through the endless ether.

Anyway, before I get too melodramatically philosophical I will get on with announcing the winner. Picked at random by a 6th former who was hanging about was Caroline2 (or Virginia, not quite sure since your handle was Caroline2, but you signed your comment as Virginia)


Well done Caroline2, and you will be pleased to know that you have a choice of prize! I randomly picked up an unopened pack of sterile lidded, pointy, 15ml, gradated sample tubes (what a description!) and attached to the pack was a Sainsburys £5 gift card. So, you get a choice between the gift car and the sample tubes. Personally, I would go for the gift card, but I dont know. Sample tubes might be your thing.

-Please will you  with your choice of prize and mailing address.

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New Toy


Look at the pretty new hard drive that arrived for the dpt today. All shiny and wrapped in layers of plastic, cardboard and instructions. I love how I had to even half assemble the plug

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Apologies for tardiness

It seemed that when I was updating the look of my site, I didnt get around to sweeping up a couple of annoying code bugs. One of which was the bizzare way blogger deals with letting people post comments! I had actually been wondering why I have been having quite high traffic yet no feedback.

Anyway, I shall be sorting out the template code, and getting a very nice a shiny button up as soon as I can. In the mean time, just follow the jump link (either the Title of the post, the red 'Comments' link at the bottom of each entry or the 'Read More >>' link) on any post on which you wish to comment.

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Pre Half Term Competition/Give-Away

My desk was getting a bit messy. We all know how it goes. An accumulation of 8 weeks worth of miscellaneous free/trial/random stuff which never quite finds it way to a new home. Or, my personal favourite is keeping things which we will never use again... but we just might. Take for example some organism breathing A-Level apparatus. The practical for which I made it for no longer exists, but the apparatus still works. Seems a pity to dismantle and throw it all away. Think I'm going to file it with other other practicals that never get used any more.

So, for your chance to win a random item from my desk (not the breathing app... sorry. I like it too much), just leave a 'hello' in the comment section! Really, its as simple as that.

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Fixing A Newish Dynamo



Kate is not happy.
The above pictured, almost brand new piece of equipment has broken. Its one of those dynamo demonstration things. Unfortunately it was poorly designed, built and abused in its use.

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