It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of... My favourite mug. It was a present from an ex girlfriend 18 years ago and, after an incalculable amount of tea, it finally met its end when I knocked it of my desk yesterday afternoon.

On a brighter note, this weekend has been extremely productive. I only require five questions to to complete this Thurday's quiz. Okay, so it will probably require the obligatory tweeking between now and then but in the main I'm quite pleased with it. On Saturday, I managed to get the printer working (it was just a problem with the cartridge) so managed to compile a picture round and print out 24 copies which should be enough. Yesterday, I went mad. Not literally. I did, however, compile the music tape and also tapes for the next two weeks, put together this week's guest round (Dingbats) and print those out and also print out 240 pages of answer sheets. With 6 sheets to a page they have a date with Mr Trimmer later on.

Three for fun (Friday's answers)

'Beauty is potent but money is Omnipotent.

St Paul addressed his first Epistle in the New Testament to the Romans.

Cars are sold at Manheim auctions in the United States.

Today's questions (answers on Friday)

1. Lake Maggiore lies on the border of which two countries?

2. Wade Giles and Pinyin are two systems of a phonetic alphabet for which language?

3. Ankhesenamen was the Queen of which Egyptian pharaoh?

Joke Of The Day:

Yesterday, scientists suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women. To test the finding 100 men were fed 6 pints of beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong. No further testing is planned.