And still no sign
Another 5 am for your scribe as I had to go over to the farmhouse as I'd put my name down to sign for the passports and visas and The Farmer's Wife lives not far from the Embassy so logically we should get ours quicker than them being sent to any of the Mouse holes.

Now if anyone from my 9 to 5 is reading this and thinking how can he get up this early yet he never manages to arrive much before 9:30, forget it. It ain't gonna happen!

So most of the day is spent waiting and waiting and waiting. Finally a phone call comes in that they will arrive on Friday between 8 and 6. Didn't think to ask them if they couldn't get it to us today. Finally the stress and the long days are beginning to show. The Farmer's Wife has smoked the entire contents of a cigarette packet in twenty minutes, there's now a coffee shortage in West London and once again calls to travel agents, vehicle rental, calls to Lyndon, Alex and Frankie and emails to Paulette and Esther to keep them in the loop.

Now the big question is do we risk booking a early afternoon flight on the Friday and gamble on them arriving first thing and mad rush to Heathrow or do we wait and get a Saturday flight so we're not rushed? It's a tough desicion as having had to cancel the first date in Homer, it would mean we would lose the Seldovia date too. Saturday was chosen as it was too much of a risk with Friday. Seldovia looked such a beautiful place to perform at but we had to contact the organisers and explain the situation.

- posted by Tom @ 8:29 AM