1 Where, I wonder, are you both? You'll read this message on 18 September, that is, if you have access to an internet cafe; you are scheduled to arrive at Gatwick at 1935 on 20 September. So I suppose that you are about to leave for the return journey to Peking (or you may have made that journey). I'll send a short text.

2 Rats. I telephoned Pells, heard that it would be open to 1730, and that there was no-one in the pool. (Hmm, I thought. There must be a reason.) As I expected today to be the last day, I resolved to drive there. And so I did. I had to divert from Danehill to Nutley for petrol. Even so, I reached the locked gate at 1700 or a minute or two after.

2.1 A conversation through the bars. He wanted to get home. The pool will be open on Friday from 0930, on Saturday and on Sunday from 1300 to 1730. Sunday, I gathered, will be the closing day.

3 Rats, again. I switched on your laptop during the afternoon, looked at the Form 4 for August 2008, and thought 'Ah'. Yes, that's what I thought: 'Ah'. I opened an Excel document on my own laptop, having decided that I would create my own reconciliation worksheet. Alas. When I returned from Pells, keen to get going, your laptop would not do what I wanted. It has died on me. So I'll have to take it to the Wolfcats and ask them to resusitate it.

3.1 Meanwhile, if all else fails, then it will be a matter of restoring Conaccess to end-July and re-entering the August data. Monday, I know, is not the day to spend with the EGDCU. So we may have to report that the August accounts will be settled soon after the Board meeting on Tuesday.

4 Rah, Rah. I have made my first entries on the EGDCU website.

5 Time to be coming home, lady.

Stayathome.