Snippets.

Very dull day in the shop yesterday. Schools all back in England now as well as Scotland. Sandy went back, returned flushed with success from several tests they’d been given - even a maths test hadn’t fazed him it seems - full of excitement, tales of amazing design projects involving generators, an explosion in chemistry lesson and his new rugby boots with aluminium studs which received full marks from the games teacher.

On the other hand, as I said, I had a very dull day, so it was good that the paper was full of interesting snippets.

*Baby Oliver born after a new genetic screening techniques had selected him as a potentially Good Egg thus giving his mother better than her original 7% chance to become pregnant.

*Poland and Russia trying to become friends whilst still claiming the other was responsible for WW2. More amazingly perhaps, Germany claiming responsibility for WW2. Chancellor Angela Merkel: “Germany triggered the second World War. We brought endless suffering to the world.”

*Unseen sections of the Codex Sinaiticus have been found in an Egyptian monastery where it had been reused for bookbinding, the antique parchment being strong and parchment anyway a scarce commodity in 18th century Egypt. The portion coming to light, slowly and carefully, seems to be Joshua Chapter 1 verse 10. It will be interesting to hear what it says. The Codex Sinaiticus 350 AD is the oldest known version of the Bible hand written in Greek on animal skin. It is giving the established churches a bit of a headache as it contradicts their teachings from time to time.