Okay, so the bags are packed, the presents are wrapped (it was a very near thing), the last-minute laundry I had to do on account of spilling milk all over my clean pants last night is done and dried and I am, I think, about as ready as I am going to get to exchange my comfortable little South London rut for a slightly different rut in Kent which also contains my parents and my brother. Hopefully it'll do me for a week - that's all I need.

Well, except for this. 'This' being this Livejournal post, which I am making to... well, largely to appraise anyone who might care with the aforementioned festive rut-exchange.

For the first time ever, I actually have holiday dates, so: I am going to be away from today, the 20th December, until a week today, namely the 27th.

During this time I expect my Internet access to be, at best, somewhat curtailed. I'm not totally sure if my parents still have a net-capable PC: they may do, and if they do I should be able to get online and use it at least occasionally. If something has happened and they now don't have a working computer, though, I'm going to be incommunicado from now until I'm back in London, which would be a frankly terrifying prospect but one that I have prepared for by packing lots of books. Either way things are going to be a little iffy this end for the next week, but isn't that going to be the case almost everywhere?

So, in case I don't get to say so in a more timely fashion, I hope everyone reading this has a merry Christmas, Hanukkah or other winter holiday of choice.