Happy New Year.
I hope you all enjoyed the holidays. First real day back to work for me.
New Years Eve for us was quiet, at home, and most enjoyable. Son gone for the night, lights out, candles lit, DVD, bottle of wine, sporadic firework displays in the distance, all very pleasant and then a couple of minutes before midnight P hit 'pause' and I was over his lap when the clock struck twelve, receiving some delicious strikes of my own. The movie resumed after a satisfactory recess.

Our office was closed Friday as it was Bank Holiday but I popped in as I'd received a couple of web orders I wanted to get ready to send out first thing Saturday morning. I went up stairs to our second office where most of my bags are stored, searched for the stock I needed and as I moved a couple of boxes aside noticed I was squelching on the carpet and the underside of one of the boxes was wet. I called P and he came down right away with his handyman kit, I think he likes little practical emergencies really, he often says he would have preferred to do a physical job if he had his time over, rather than office based work.
Anyway it turned out the radiator had been leaking and had probably been like that over the holidays. If I hadn't gone in and spotted it the water would probably have spread across the carpet and damaged some more cartons, probably the contents too. As it happens we got two large cartons soaked but they were holding dust bags that we got from Spain, not high value and only a few were damaged. P closed the radiator down and we moved cartons onto the desk and wall storage units, putting unprotected stock outside the office door just in case. Not much worry about theft at our place and not many would be in on the weekend.
Hopefully getting fixed in the next day or so and the carpet's being replaced.
Could have been a disastrous start to my New Year but I was lucky.
Ronnie
xx