Meanwhile back in the real world...

And of course just after the unpacking's done and you've got your breath back, next up are important e-mails to put off (as so many self-employed folk do), so you handwash some fabric used as a performance floor covering, only remembering once it's soaked in soapy water that actually it DID survive the last time it was put in a washing machine by mistake...not to waste the effort, you throw in a clothe overdue for a wash, thinking it to be a handwash only...then notice that a small hole has got huge and, while wringing it out, that the label in fact says 'dry clean only'...and already that morning you opened the fridge breaking someone else's glass and spilling someone else's food...And once everything's hung out to dry of course it starts to rain...What else is there to do but laugh at yourself? You start the important e-mails.

The post arrives. You open a bank statement - not only do you, regardless of usually being pretty organized, not remember what all this money that's been going out was or to whom, but you notice how little has been coming in. Some close friends have just split up and someone else comes round to moan their head off having had hassle with a troublesome relation. Oh well! Welcome back...