Carrot cake acquisition dents pre-tax profits

Of course we are in the thick of it now.

I've started thinking that at least in just over 5 weeks it will all be over. People keep saying, 'you should just try to enjoy it'. On the day with everything going well and the sun out I might allow myself that luxury for a moment.

I would like my wife back. Kate is utterly miserable 70% of the time, the weight of the organising is taking it's toll despite everything going well. Small hiccups tend to have a disproportionately large impact like food retailers who say they are coming deciding not to without telling you.

Despite Mother-in-law sticking the stamps on the ticket letters anywhere other than in the top right corner and me forgetting the stamps completely on those tickets to our European friends the ticketing seems to of gone well so far fingers crossed. I've basically thrown IT at the problem and brought the largest envelope labels possible in order that shitty Word at least stands half a chance getting all the address on.

I now have a van, but don't have time to savor it. I'm slowly grinding down Tesco by ordering 100 bottles of 2 ltr still water every day until I've got 500. They wouldn't let me order 500 in one go despite as much charm as I could muster at the information desk.

We are running the bar ourselves and doing lots of the food. Kate has ordered £195 worth of carrot cake. If I had time to be concerned this would be a warning sign that things are getting slightly out of hand. I know it's a dense cake, as cakes go, but hang on a mo honey.

We're fast approaching break even point on ticket sales, so can't complain. We've got quite a lot more press lined up including some telly. BBC Look North want to do a piece on us which will make a change from them reading out the press releases from the emergency services.