Is seagull shite random?

I suspect it's not after suffering a near miss from an anti-personnel bombing raid yesterday morning. Shrapnel wounds only, but a close thing. Certain cars seem to be targets as well, so what gives? Are they cunning little emissaries of Osama Bin Laden, or innocent flying rats?

Mum arrived on Tuesday and is settling and getting over her jet-lag. We have her locked in the bathroom to do the cleaning, and let her out for dinner and when we need to dirty the room again.

J has started packing and we're already concerned about whether we can fit all our stuff in the car. We didn't think we had bought much until we started this little exercise. We've been trying to get everything done, and we have new insurances, a forwarding address, the packing, storage, etc, to get organised.

We each had interesting days at work. J discovered the final date for a major funding application had been and gone for the year, so there were a few upset people there. I have had problems with the report I look after. I am handing over to a new woman, and she is already dispairing. It's a shame that the bank couldn't get their act together to have this project completed while I was still around, but we could only extend our stay for so long...

We'll be letting Mum out of her box so she can come with me to London and be my photocopying slave for a day at the IWM. It'll be very useful having an extra pair of hands so we might let her have the rest of the time off.

Actually, she had a day looking around London with J last Tuesday, taking the hop-on-hop-off bus around for the day. For the last couple of days she has been quietly exploring Bristol, and this weekend we'll try to get out of town for a taste of Little Britain. The weather has been lovely, so she'll have the completely wrong idea of the place...

J and I passed the one year milestone a fortnight ago. (That's why all our insurances, etc, have expired). Only four to go... Bristol has been a great home for that time and we will miss it when we go. Let's hope Scotland is as easy to live in.