Thanks in some small way to poor planning on my part and in a large and very annoying way to excerable customer service on the royal mail’s part (I’ve been calling the number they gave me to arrange a re-delivery all week about 2 or three times per morning, each time the call timed out, today I spent a total of 45 minutes waiting for them to pick up the phone, no bastard response from those bastards) I cycled to Kilburn sorting office and back in the blazing sunshine this lunch time to pick up my mothers long overdue birthday present, I only mention this as the whole round trip including waiting for the idiot employees to search for the parcel (I made them go back and look for it 3 times before they finally found it), took only 40 minutes. I’m so glad I don’t take the tube anymore.

Also worth noting that today the weather is exactly the best temperature ever 27°C. Sitting in the shade and eating a sandwich I felt neither too hot nor too cold.