I Keep Letting Things Here Slip
Must try harder.
Oh well, by way of catching up: The Bank Holiday weekend was somewhat given over to having a bloody good go through all the stuff we've been dumping in the attic for the last couple of years, somewhat else given over to slumping really quite badly, and slightly given over to going to Heathrow Airport for a work trip.
The attic day was very productive, and left us with the realisation that we'd been seriously overestimating the amount of stuff up there. We rid ourselves of a lot of old videos, books and the like, and found ourselves several useful bits and pieces we'd pretty much forgotten about. The number of empty boxes that get stored ('for if we need to move the computer/monitor/miscellaneous electronic item') long after their original contents have left the premises is ridiculous.
The Heathrow trip was as you might expect - I went, I checked in, I waited for departure, I departed. Was just an overnight trip, but it was enlivened on the return by the sight of a man who'd been pulled over in the customs hall having the DOZENS of boxes (and by that I mean 200 -to-the-box size boxes) of cigarettes being counted by the customs officer who had removed them from his suitcases. The following morning someone on Today was talking about how much tobacco smuggling there is, and I found myself nodding in agreement.
In News news, the whole saga over Her Horsiness attending or not attending the memorial service for Her Over-Ratedness serves no other purpose than to show that we're not quite out of the silly season, but I truly wish we were. And there seems to have been an earthquake in Manchester this morning, the sixth in a month, but hardly anyone really seems to have noticed.