..doing a bit of IT training. He made a rather glib comment about a certain Teutonic accounting software being ruthlessly efficient, and after a well judged comic pause, I added:

"Ha, yeah, and it scores more goals..."

Tumbleweed.

The ground, rather inconveniently failed to open up.

He's back again tomorrow.

I may shut up.

Which is why my head is normally a mass of bruises.

the Weather Forecast seemed to suggest there was a shower of shit heading our way from South Africa.

Both are useless for anything but pushing downstairs.