So today we posted something to Britain.

I was under the impression that this postage stuff depended on volume as well as weight, so we butchered an old mineral water box (the brand was "Voltic" - a reference to the Volta river - but I'm not 100% convinced it isn't somehow riding on the coat-tails of Volvic), folded it up and made it small and stuffed it with paper and plastered it with masking tape ... only to discover that there is no volume component.

Anyway, the box seems sort of sturdy although it looks more like a papier mache representation of a box than an actual box proper like. In some ways it reminds me of the box that John Candy gives to John Turturro in the film "Barton Fink", although I think that one was meant to contain a human head and this one carries nothing more offensive than a lamp made out of a calabash and a couple of books of poetry that I'm getting bored with.

Anyway, cost a fortune but hopefully will give out a naice glow in some future London pied a terre.