First published Sunday 29 April 2007

• Looking back now, this one seems a bit distant - since I wrote it we've replaced our photocopier, and the new one usually seems eager to please.  But I did have a long-running enmity with its predecessor - if the market for Paper Jam were as strong as the market for Strawberry Jam, I'd have made a mint, but it wasn't, so I didn't... so the copier and I didn't really get on.