Microbiology

Pah.

I am late in the office again. I ironed a shirt last night in readiness for this morning (as one does) but this morning I had to iron a fresh one. The shirt I ironed last night had gone stale over night and was unwearable. This is a lesson in the mechanics of laundering clothes in tepid water when the boiler is on the blink. Firstly it wasn't quite as clean as I had thought and secondly it took forever to dry. It seems that the extra drying time had been enough for a touch of mill dew which was reactivated by the steam from the iron and which spent the night adding its own distinct contribution to the shirt's bouquet. Shirts are not supposed to have bouquets.

So I shall have to re-launder that shirt and check all the other laundry that was done at the same time. If it is anything like the shirt I could be hijacked by it - it was the heat and the moisture from the iron that revivified whatever it was, so it may well be unnoticeable until it is too late to change.

Grumble.

I may just re-launder everything, annoying as it is. Luckily I have enough clean clothes to see me through either way. It's just another aggravation, is all.

I read somewhere recently, The Times probably, that someone somewhere had hit upon the idea of cheese - principally Stilton - based deodorant. I may even have blogged it at the time. My advice to them is, "Don't do it" and if they do anyway, my advice to you is to avoid it like the plague. If it is one tenth as potent as the bacteria that screwed over my supposedly clean shirt, it will be a nightmare.

Microbiology

Pah.

I am late in the office again. I ironed a shirt last night in readiness for this morning (as one does) but this morning I had to iron a fresh one. The shirt I ironed last night had gone stale over night and was unwearable. This is a lesson in the mechanics of laundering clothes in tepid water when the boiler is on the blink. Firstly it wasn't quite as clean as I had thought and secondly it took forever to dry. It seems that the extra drying time had been enough for a touch of mill dew which was reactivated by the steam from the iron and which spent the night adding its own distinct contribution to the shirt's bouquet. Shirts are not supposed to have bouquets.

So I shall have to re-launder that shirt and check all the other laundry that was done at the same time. If it is anything like the shirt I could be hijacked by it - it was the heat and the moisture from the iron that revivified whatever it was, so it may well be unnoticeable until it is too late to change.

Grumble.

I may just re-launder everything, annoying as it is. Luckily I have enough clean clothes to see me through either way. It's just another aggravation, is all.

I read somewhere recently, The Times probably, that someone somewhere had hit upon the idea of cheese - principally Stilton - based deodorant. I may even have blogged it at the time. My advice to them is, "Don't do it" and if they do anyway, my advice to you is to avoid it like the plague. If it is one tenth as potent as the bacteria that screwed over my supposedly clean shirt, it will be a nightmare.

Tally Ho!

I see that Peter Jackson is to film a remake of the Dambusters.

Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".

Well, it will be interesting to see how he does it. Let's hope that a) 617 Squadron is still an RAF unit, b) that Barnes Wallis is British and that Wing Commander Guy Gibson doesn't suffer a nationality change. Of equal interest will be whether or not Gibson's pet dog is renamed. It would be fair enough of them not to refer to it by name in the film, except that as it was run down and killed just before the mission, the dog's name became the call-sign for the successful destruction of the dams...

It seems that at one point Mel Gibson had the rights to the story and was set to remake the movie. I think we can guess how that would have turned out, can't we?

Thank God for small mercies.

Tally Ho!

I see that Peter Jackson is to film a remake of the Dambusters.

Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".

Well, it will be interesting to see how he does it. Let's hope that a) 617 Squadron is still an RAF unit, b) that Barnes Wallis is British and that Wing Commander Guy Gibson doesn't suffer a nationality change. Of equal interest will be whether or not Gibson's pet dog is renamed. It would be fair enough of them not to refer to it by name in the film, except that as it was run down and killed just before the mission, the dog's name became the call-sign for the successful destruction of the dams...

It seems that at one point Mel Gibson had the rights to the story and was set to remake the movie. I think we can guess how that would have turned out, can't we?

Thank God for small mercies.