What sort of debate needs 76 rules?

Love the fact that there are 3 rules about the set.

And is one minute really enough time to respond to a question?

Clearly the people involved in this haven't watched the live debate episode in series 7 of The West Wing.

Meanwhile the sun is shining and I've been deciding what penstemons to put in my garden this year. And tomorrow I'm off to buy myself a colour wheel because I can't find a decent one online to print off.

You can tell I haven't done any work today can't you...

I obviously had a moment of PhD avoidance at some point recently and ordered the above and then promptly forgot I'd ordered them. So it was a pleasant surprise to find a parcel in the letterbox this morning. I'm looking forward to reading these.

Next on my list of things to buy are two plays by Fin Kennedy and whatever I can get my hands on by David Rudkin, which is easier said than done as Methuen seem to have let all his plays go out of print. It is, however, possible to get an in print of his first play - Afore Night Come - from Oberon Books. For all the rest I feel a trip to Skoob coming on.