Just an update on the supply pipe leak outside our house (yawn! for everybody else, a real hassle for me).
We got our second quote today and I decided to go with Aquamain. We'll see how it goes next week, assuming our house hasn't slid down the hill and onto the Cathedral Green in the meantime.
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I'm reading about Bayesian inference at the moment. It's a page-turning book which is big on the academic infighting, the personalities and the issues while telling you next to nothing about the actual mathematics. It can be turned into a piece for sciencefiction.com over the next few days, though.