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Well as you can see the digital radio has been purchased at last and got a high approval rating from all the family. Number One Son’s thumb is somewhere behind this picture playing with the mains adapter but it’s OK everyone; he’s not hurt.

I have just heard a sprinkler hissing in one of the back gardens behind the house and this has reminded me of a theme I have been meaning to mention for some time. There has been an advert, in the style of swingball and other garden fun stuff, for an attachment to your common-or-garden hose, which stands up in the ground with a flexible bit of trunking. When the tap is turned on, this trunking flaps around like hoses always do in cartoons (my image has Tom clinging to the end while Jerry giggles in the shrubbery) spraying everyone and everything with water in a random and mathematical chaotic way. So we spend all this money on some mechanism which means a sprinkler gives an even covering using some regular process and all along, the simplest method is a bit of flexible hose with a fixed end and an free end. The other thing in this theme is a toy, one of the kids in the street has. It consists of a battery-powered mouse on wheels (clockwork versions were also in Tom and Jerry), which sits inside a clear, plastic globe. As the mouse runs around inside the globe, it rolls around the floor. When it hits something, the mouse just falls to one side by gravity and rolls the globe in a different direction. It has no other sensors and never gets stuck. Why spend loads on fitting some bit of Mechano with bumpers, servos, eyes and trip wires? May keep this in mind when programming. Och A vay.