2016-04-20 Wednesday: Departure minus one

Headlines:

Bash for Bard on Saturday
Time to Wash and Pack
​Need for Race Day Reassurance​
Visit the Grandson
Online Checkin

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Stream of consciousness:

Bash for Bard on Saturday

Our plan -- for the fun run -- is to fly in on Friday, scout out Stratford on Saturday, run on Sunday. That Saturday scout is just a stroll round Shakespeare's birthplace. Looking for the start and finish of the run, where it leaves town, where to park on the day... just to get a comfortable feeling that we won't be lost. Perhaps also take in a bit of Bardic history. And lunch.

In today's West: "Bash for Bard. The stage is set at Shakespeare's birthplace for a 400th anniversary celebration of his life and works. Stratford-on-Avon in England will host tourists and fans from around the world on Saturday."

So much for a quiet stroll round town on Saturday!

And it's Stratford-upon-Avon.

Time to Wash and Pack

Last load of washing. First pass at packing... Threw a lot of clothes into the case. It all fits so easily! The benefit of using a larger case.

I also created a couple of piles of odds and ends: things for the backpack, things for the case but I still need to use them... Spent the next hours moving things to the piles, from the piles, between the piles. There's a lot of "essential" electronic stuff and possibly not enough warm clothes.

One item now safely packed is the keyboard for this tablet. So I'm now typing using the swype keyboard. What a pain! I expect to mistype. What I don't like is that swype will guess at a real word that is completely different... When I proofread, I have absolutely no idea what word I intended to use :-(

​Need for Race Day Reassurance​

Deb felt the need for some extra reassurance from her online coach. He's a very positive coach! So she sent an email asking an irrelevant question... just so the coach would get back in his usual reassuring style :-)

Visit the Grandson

One last visit to our grandson. Very enjoyable :-)) As we said goodbye to him I thought, I'll miss him the most. But only because he's too young to understand that we're going away. If he does notice our absence, he's too young to understand that we'll be coming back. Sigh.

Mind you, it's the same with the cat.

Online Checkin

Checked in, online. There was the exciting offer of upgrading our flight! For a mere doubling of the total cost of flights! And that would only upgrade for one of four flights... No, I think not.

So, that's done. Now we just have to get to the airport, by two hours before the flight leaves... No worries.

I'll worry anyway :-)

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Agamedes Consulting
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"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."