Well, I have left Carol snoring in bed to do the blog - partly because I have been told that it is early in the morning when the creative side of the brain works best, partly cos I was getting a headache from the noise. However what comes next is absolutely true. We have been getting the house ready to move (welcome to Ian and Maureen who are renting from us) and as part of that I have been going around tidying and emptying. There are lots of pennies and tuppences which I have been picking up to take to the bank (apologies for the rest of the queue for the half hour it took to get the money counted). So, I've been tootling around the rooms picking up coins and feeling jolly useful and putting
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