I despair. As if verything else in life wasn't making me a grumpy old git, I now read that pupils are getting a B grade in maths GCSE when they've only got 17%. That's right, 17%. I've known for a long time that the world is becoming less literate (more illiterate?), but now they won't be able to count either. I sweated and struggled for my C grade O level and probably only just achieved that. But then I was rubbish. Under these rules I'd have got an A. Not that I'd have deserved an A; I deserved a C...
In case this is relevant to you, my email server is down. It's been acting strange for a while, with spurious hangs and other weird stuff. Today we had a power cut (oh the joys of living in the country) and the server is now on life supoprt. I could havae probably got away without shutting down, but the last cut we had (just over a week ago) lasted 4 hours; my UPs won't last that long so I took the sensible route of a nice orderly shutdown. When power returned, it took an hour and a half to boot...