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Following the post of 24th January (and the one before that of 8th May last), the scaffold did indeed rise to the top. Furthermore it was very neatly wrapped in a plastic wrapper labelled 'Erith Demolition' (http://www.erith.com/index.html: the enabling specialists, whatever that might mean. Apart from sounding generally helpful).

This all happened at a time when it was very cold - by our standards anyway - and the chaps from 'South London Roofing' agreed that it would be pretty cold up there first thing in the morning. Bad enough on the relatively sheltered roof of a suburban house, but once you are up there in the wind, no fun at all... I also find that 'South London Roofing' is not a very Google friendly name as a quick search reveals two web sites with that sort of name, neither of which appears to be the outfit in question. To be fair, I dare say there are a lot of roofing contractors in south London.

Now much warmer and the scaffold is falling again, this time taking the water tower with it. The amount of noise being made is quite modest; maybe the wrapper helps on that front. But they are consuming a fair amount of fuel and a fuel bowser is busy delivering some more on the other side.

Back at home, a minor panic with the printer. Yesterday afternoon it ran out of paper, as they do, but an ink warning light came on at the same time and declined to go off. Touch annoying, being fairly sure that I had replaced both ink cartridges - with the genuine HP ink, costing about as much for both cartridges as the printer is sold for - fairly recently. So this morning I thought that I would check the manual and further thought that it would be quicker to get it from the PC than nip upstairs and get the hard copy. Had clearly not thought to name the copy which I had downloaded some weeks previously, so was unable to find that. But onto Google and after a few minutes fighting my way through invitations from HP to buy things, I found my way to another copy of their manual and this time gave the download a sensible name so that I will be able to find it next time. At least that is the idea. I then read that the warning light was indeed about low ink - by which time it had gone off.

The bit of good news is that I now know how to estimate the ink levels. Bad news is that the black ink is indeed getting low. Which means I am spending a lot on ink. Maybe if I invested in a more expensive printer I would get through less of the stuff? Or which used something less expensive? Can I be bothered to investigate? Would it be simpler just to buy a few shares in HP?