piling on

One of the few advantages of having been through almost every box in the flat over the past few weeks is that we've been able to consolidate our many deposits of smallpence into one easy collection, also finding the small pile of bank-issue change-packing bags into which the coins might be put. Nicky sorted and bagged all we'd found a few weeks ago a few weeks ago but today all remaining stocks had their NZ dollars, Europence and rogue never-been-there currency-forms filtered out to leave an impressive £66 comprised of £23 in tuppences, £13 in pennies and what turned out to be only £29 rather than £30 in fivepences, supplemented by five poundfifths in the bank when I went to pay them in (tomorrow). Another couple of weeks and there should be sufficient further fivepences accumulated to bag up another £5worth, which might be done as and when it occurs rather than letting them all mount up again, amusing though it is to hoick them all into a rucksack to take into work along with next week's shirts in the evening rather than in the morning when I would be further accoutred with a normal work-bag full of work-bag contents. When combined with the weight of clothes, work-clothes, camera and shoes my apparent mass was almost seventeen stone up from my usual thirteenish, though it did seem different for it to be in such a dense mass (and a small rucksack, which creaked a bit but coped) compared to the heavier but far larger rucksack usually dragged around when on holiday. Whilst the floor of my locker might have complained about having 2½st in overnight the lower draw of my desk-pedestal didn't even slightly complain and didn't even tip over when the door was fully extended with the bag of coins in place.