Ready for Off

On Thursday evening, by working hard and going to bed late, I wove enough of the donsu to provide me with the 44 samples I needed for the Complex Weavers Fine Threads Study Group. By rising early (0530) and again working hard, I had 44 printouts detailing the fabric and draft with the samples attached all parcelled up and ready to be posted by 1100 hours. I really did not want to back out this year as I had to give up last year because the builders were in the studio and access to the Megado was impossible.

The rest of the day was spent doing paperwork and preparing for the Homesitters who arrive today. The biggest job was sorting out the manuals for all the household equipment which I have not done for 6 years. I managed to reduce 4 large Lever Arch files to two, one large and one small, so that's a good job done. But it was after 11 again by the time I got to bed.

I have a small amount of repacking to do but first to get my hair cut. At lunchtime, I take the train to Egham to stay with Ruth overnight and tomorrow - well tomorrow Venice! And the start of this great adventure. I have a note of the three best shops for marbled paper!!.I reckon I can walk there from our hotel. I intend to get the hotel to post it home for me if, of course, I find anything I like. I have been very surprised by how interested everyone is  in this trip. I had to have my annual blood test on Thursday and the nurse (who  I had never met before) immediately asked about the trip. When did it start, where would I visit. 

I did look up one interesting fact. The straight line distance between Istanbul and Xian is over 3500 miles. 

I think I have done everything I should have done, promised someone else to do. But it is going to be too late soon.