We're almost out of ink.

Which makes it a good time to buy a printer. I want to be able to scan and photocopy at home. We are choosing between the Canon Pixma MP520 (Playcentre's) and the HP Photosmart C8180 (Ruth's) I suspect either would be fine. You may research them if you wish and come up with a recommendation while I attend the school helpers' morning tea. 

Damon will sit in the house with a computer while Iris watches DVDs. She is responding to important change with her current best coping mechanism. I'm sure that once she's literate I'll be able to take her and a book places when she's in this mood but at the moment I'm a bit wistful that when Playcentre was on the phone and asked her to come in to help make my leaving present she wouldn't).