four more sleeps

So much still to do and organise. Important things like work and wine which was supposed to arrive on Friday and be delivered and now I have orders as far as Atlantic Beach, Durbanville and Hout Bay and this will now get in the way of even more important things like my eyebrows which need shaping and my hair which needs serious attention and gift shopping for all our gracious hosts who are going to feed and hydrate us.

The hydration is worrying me. Talk of heat waves and all that and worse still the talk of £4 for a glass of wine boggles my brain a bit. A month long holiday with the rand in the sad way it is, is going to be hard. I am happy to eat Grape Nuts (my best and only £2.50 at Tescos) all day but I have never really been an 'a glass of wine' girl. Suppose adding the cheap and cheerful Argentinian wine to the Tescos basket and hanging around park benches while sightseeing could work. Are you allowed to drink in parks in London? This is a serious question.

The packing is going well and I am being quite ruthless. 5 outfits and 2 smarter ones. Never in a place for more than 5 days and only Michael's Yorkshire family may notice our same Monday to Friday outfits being worn once again in Canada (maybe it will confuse them if I wear them in reverse order).

Will I fit everything in this case?

Also what book or books to take for the plane? This is my bedside 'to read' pile. Which would you recommend? Also trying desperately to finish two other books from book club but not sure that will happen.

I am also battling to blog on my iPad. I loaded the Blogger app but promptly lost the whole post. 

Another revelation is that I am also trying to start only using one space after a full stop but this is proving difficult as well. Nic will be happy and awhile back he sent me this article but years of work in a legal office getting out of the two space habit goes against the grain.