... and other planned posts will have to wait. I'm off to my mother's for 36 or so hours. The plus side is I will not have to go there on Saturday.

And, oh yes, I will miss two days of building work here - although, so far there are few signs that they have started. The 16 week clock has yet to start ticking; the scaffolding work, which took a month, doesn't count apparently. Will they finish before the clocks go forward again?

Who knows what life will be like in March next year?