Objectives for tomorrow include but are not limited to:

1. Kitchen blitzed and living room tidied. Vacuum if time.

2. Car filled with petrol and oil/tyres/screenwash checked and replenished. (£84.55! Ouch! It had damn well better get us there and back, is all I'm saying.)

3. All clothes, music stuff and non-essential items packed. Travelling outfits laid out.

4. Ask Valerie-next-door to mind cats while we're away.

5. Zander and Countess showered/bathed/otherwise made ready.

6. Prescription for Jan's medications picked up.

7. Final additions to Thing completed.

8. Songs printed out and mp3s copied to iPod just in case music stuff doesn't work on reassembly, so that if I need to perform anything I can.

9. Anything else I haven't thought of which means that on Friday morning we can just put stuff in the car and go already. (Ha.)

10. Route to Grantham (not via Sutton Bridge) checked and confirmed.

If I can get all that done I shall be a chuffed Nyrond. When I recover consciousness. By which time, hopefully, we should be at the con.

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