fire safety lesson

slept badly and dreamt that all my staff were being awkward and not doing as they were told...

learnt how to use a fire extinguisher today, although the guy spent the whole time going 'if there's a fire, just get out! But if you do have a fire extinguisher handy... ' (essential handbag item - halon extinguisher - now banned but ones already in circulation are rare and precious and can put anything out, hold on to them, they are green)

Reminded of the time in Italy when the students I was working with inadvertently set a pan of oil on fire in the church kitchen, threw it into the sink whereupon a fireball blazed up and then instantly went out, merely singeing the enormous roll of paper towel hanging directly over the sink. Only now realising how incredible it is that the whole place didn't go up, church, and 6 flats above it....
hmm, thanks God for intervening, sorry am a bit late with the gratitude...

new timetable being planned for september already and trustees want 'staff availability comments' by the 18th, guess it's time to tell them... but it can wait till monday