Advance Preparations

We have a final iteration of The Itinerary:
Jim sliced and diced our three volumes of Uncle Rick’s books (London, England, and Scotland) into chunks of relevant text to conserve luggage space.
We’ve watched through all of Downton Abbey, The Crown, and several BBC Masterpiece Mysteries.
I meant to, but failed to reread Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott and James Herriot.
We know how to correctly pronounce “scone” (no long “o”), “slough” (“cow”), and Edinburgh (Pittsburgh).
Thankfully, Jessica alerted me to the notion of “bespoke” this and “bespoke” that, so now I hear it all over the place.
That’s an exaggeration.
We have special rail cards.
Well, that’s not true, either. We have train tickets which assume we have special rail cards, therefore we shall acquire the cards prior to boarding the train or…I don’t know what will happen, but we won’t let it.
Nope, not packed,
It’s only Thursday.
Jim mowed the lawns, we sent out grade reports, we arranged with Kind Neighbors to feed Scout.
In preparation for our 9-hour, overnight flight, we’re sleeping in the car tonight.
Not really, but it did cross my mind.
We have hotel reservations, Airbnb reservations, train tickets, but no assigned airplane seats. B.A, much as I love them, charges a hefty fee for those until 24 hours before take-off.
I’ll be watching that countdown clock this evening; you can bet on it.

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