This lunchtime I just agreed to spend several thousand pounds on a flat for the duration of the Fringe in Edinburgh. I still don't quite know how long I plan to be up there. Probably two weeks, which somewhat scuppers my plan to go to America and Canada at the tail end of the year. It "somewhat" scuppers it. It may not actually scupper it. We'll see. I do now have an extra day's annual leave in my contract, thanks to a unification of contracts as the company I work for manages to merge all its consituent parts into a giant jam.

I hope my own house is complete by August. Maybe while I'm in Edinburgh I can buy another! It would probably be cheaper to buy a house in Edinburgh in July, live it in for August, and then sell it in September. With property prices rising, it would probably work out cheaper!

For probably read, "not at all".