I have opened the doors on the cupboard of doom

I was teaching up in Kendal for the first three days of this week and my classroom was a subterranean bunker, its only window leading out onto a corridor. At the back of the room was a large metal cabinet with MAJOR INCIDENT CUPBOARD printed on a sign on its door. Needless to say curiosity got the better of me and I looked inside, and found a series of blue ring binders, each labelled with such appealing subjects as "Sellafield Mass Evacuation Plan", "Locations of Potassium Iodide Tablets", "Radiation Incident Emergency Plan" and so on. When I looked inside one I found countless documents interspersed with maps of Cumbria featuring concentric circles centred over Sellafield to show fallout and blast radii. Feeling somewhat disturbed by all of this doom and gloom, I closed the door. It turned out that my classroom doubled as an emergency command bunker should a major incident occur at Sellafield or Heysham nuclear power station. This also explained the lack of windows, which was a shame as the countryside around Kendal is lovely and the weather was beautiful while I was there. It would have been great to have been able to see more of it.

In other, less gloomy, news...

Still no news on the brain scan, but it hasn't been a week yet and they did say it would be a fortnight. Our house looks dreadful as our wallpaper stripping activities have now moved upstairs, plus I'm busily cutting the kitchen carpet up ready for the laying of the tiles next week. I'm also changing my ISP from Nildram to Be. Nildram used to be great but their service has gone down the pan of late, rendering sites like YouTube completely useless as the streaming stops every couple of seconds, plus they're extremely expensive compared to others. So I'm moving to Be, which is three times faster but about £6 less each month, and my connection with them goes live next Thursday.