It's not worth paying...

... to go to the top of the Shard today - the clouds have barely parted :-(

I'm sorry I've been offline for the last week. We went to our house in Italy to make sure that everything there was alright, only to find that our next door neighbour's builders had demolished our telephone connection, so no Internet. Despite daily phone calls, Telecom Italia have so far failed to come to our rescue...

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