I’ve finished doing the auction accounts which, as a bonus, means that they are also nearly ready for the accountant next year too. Not quite, because some items come up in different auction years from tax years, so I just have to adjust that, but it’s okay. I wouldn’t bother, but just go by the tax year, if I didn’t have a business partner to share the profits.

I nearly got them all done yesterday, but we were chatting on the family WhatsApp group and, as Weeza and I were doing most of the conversation after a while, I thought I might as well phone her and have an actual chat. That delayed my accounting and then, when nearly finished, I remembered an adjustment that had to be made and I knew that midnight was no time to be doing it, I’d finish in the morning. However, there was a power cut for several hours this morning – I’d had a text to warn me about it – and I had to go out after that.

My sister has left for the first leg of her visit to India. She came through this morning, asking for help putting her case in the car. I went and lifted it – how much is her weight allowance? Is that overall or per case?

I weighed the bigger case and it was about 4 kilos over. So we started to adjust between big and small suitcase until, in the end, she went to fetch her bigger one. She’s allowed two checked-in cases, as well as hand baggage, but her Indian friends asked for rather more things to be brought over than she had expected. So I lent her two cases, but in the end my big one and her medium one crammed everything in within weight. She left, feeling slightly dismal. Neither of us likes travelling heavy, we had enough of that with our mum. I suggested, on the way home, packing the smaller suitcase and fitting it inside the bigger one, so that she didn’t have so much to lug around.

So I’ll be here alone for a few days, but then Rose is coming to stay, so that will be lovely and I’ll be able to look after her after her operation.