HB’s one and only error. Ever.

Friday

The trainers event has now reached crisis point and there are more new trainers in the school than there are people.

I’ll try that sentence again – there are more than twice as many trainers than there are people, which means that even allowing for two trainers per person, there are still too many.

Meanwhile over half the male members of staff, and two thirds of the male pupils and students now have tattoos on their wrists announcing the code XIVILXXXI

At the morning meeting with Havoc Blythe I brought up the matter of trainers and tattoos, wondering if there was any significance in the matter.

“It is, I fear, a second parasite,” he said. “I should have thought of it at the time, but I must admit I was so pleased with the way we all dealt with the toxoplasmosis affair I never thought to check for a secondary event.”

He seemed genuinely glum about this mistake and Janice felt moved to reassure him, reminding him of the triumph of ridding ourselves of the disaster of the Norman Tradition. “Besides, she said, at least we know where to look – it must be the Parasite Corporation again.”

Havoc Blythe looked cheered up by our sense of loyalty and togetherness and said he would make enquiries.

As for the matter of the VAT and the bill to change our VAT rate he was very supportive of our stand on telling the IT company where it could stick its bill. “I wonder if many schools are falling for this?” he said. I promised to make enquiries.

In the afternoon I did some research on the significance of the XIVILXXXI motif that was now all over the school. The most obvious resolution of it was to break it into groups and consider it as roman numerals. As soon as I started playing with that I got XI VI LXXXI , and it was a matter of seconds for Binky to point out that it was the date of birth of the new head of sport.

I told Havoc Blythe and he asked me to hold off, while he did some more work on the topic. He reminded me of our meal out together tonight. I had not forgotten. I am not worried about it, nor dismayed, except that I actually find myself looking forward to it. Now that is alarming.

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