Totally on top of the packing now - just weighed it and still have a bit of slack to fill - just as well as Jules rang and asked for jaffa cakes - made me consider what else I will miss -

• Marks and Spencer food for sure!
• Good chocolate!
• Radio 4!

Still have some mundane tasks to fulfill and MUST pick up some dollars - have a dollar card loaded up but would be useful to have cash as well.....renting a carpet cleaner tomorrow... and going over Amanda's to go over school stuff....

Hoping the books I ordered from Pont will arrive too - I'm going to phone them tomorrow - they were quick enough to debit my account...

Spent today with mum and she seems to have the basic idea that I'm leaving for a year... she has moments when she is quite lucid about it all. Had lunch with my brother Roger and his wife in Blackwood. Phoned Lisa and found camp was postponed for a day - glad not to have that on my agneda - ugh!

Trying to get my i-pod sorted - how do you get the music separated out from the podcasts and how do I get rid of the podcasts from yonks ago that i have listened to? I have no clue!