Quiet day today.
We posted another small parcel home - this is more of an effort than it might seem as you need to be so careful about both size and weight of the parcel. The post office sells a 'small parcel' sized box, and if you use that and keep the weight under 2kg it costs £25 (currently about $45) to send home. Even a smidgen over that weight and it goes up to something like £60 - about $110!
So, we have to go to the Post Office with the box and the things we hope to send and weigh it all there, then tinker around with the contents until it's just under 2kg, then write up the customs doco and tape it shut once we're sure it's right. We didn't do too badly today; we only had to take one thing out. At some Post Offices they're helpful and will tape up the box for you but not at this one; we had to buy a £2 roll of tape!
After this, we went to the Manchester Museum. They have a pretty good collection, particularly of Egyptian artifacts. The only issue I have with it is that there's not a lot of association with Manchester; most of the displays could just as easily have been found in a museum anywhere. However, we spent a couple of hours there; I was particularly interested in their small display of live reptiles and amphibians - in particular I was fascinated by the tiny (and mostly endangered) frogs.
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