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Cultural highlights
Take a stroll with us through the little sideroads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirKy, the quixotic and the downright strange.
Those of us In busy off ices have probably seen them all too often -those disgusting fungal growths floating on the top of a halfdrunk mug of coffee, looking as though they're about to crawl out and hide in dark corners, waiting to pounce on hapless staff members.
However, as the BBC news website reports, we may be doing these little tributes to laziness a disservice. Last Wednesday (3 September) marked a great medical milestone 75 years since Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin on a discarded dish in his lab. To commemorate this breakthrough for science (and washing up habits, we suppose) the Royal Society of Chemistry wants people to send it photographs of furry mugs -you will almost certainly find one lurking in a corner of your traffic office somewhere. So get snapping and send your mouldy missives to elmsleyb@rsc.org and you might win an evening of culture (tee hee) courtesy of the RSC.
Also knocking around on our desk (and to be honest, we could hardly see it for mouldy coffee cups) is a copy of a book called Norfolk Carriermemories of a family haulage business.
It appears to be a history of Norfolk operator Barker & Sons from its beginnings in the 1920s up to its closure in 2000.
For those looking for tear-jerking tales of a haulier's life, this could be the book for you. It is "unputdownable", as they usually say in book reviews and available from the author David Lowe (www.davidlowe.org).
Meanwhile to veer off at a huge tangent three cheers for Lex Transfleet's director of account management and development, Rob Cooksley. He's completed a three-day 40km trek through the Peruvian Andes, raising more than £4,200 for the Meningitis Research Foundation, which includes a grand from Lex.
The trek (including complementary guinea pig snacks-that's snacks of, not for guinea pigs, by the way) climbed high into the Andes, reaching an altitude of 4,215m roughly the height of Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Cooks ley began raising money for the charity after his young daughter was left physically disabled by meningitis and septicaemia.