Ticking things off the list

And "the phone call" came and went. One more thing sorted. All the scanning I'm going to do has been done (I think). Going to run a back-up (remember those?) on the PC. The list is definitely getting shorter! :-)

My daughters are doing "The Merchant of Venice" in English. Reading through it last night, this speach by Portia caught my eye:
"...The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree; such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple..."