t-minus 4 sleeps and counting

I hate packing. But after a day at it, I have shoved most everything I'll need into the rucksack. I'll have to wear my hiking boots onto the plane, and carry my warm jacket, and clearly I'm not buying ANYTHING while I'm away because there isn't a skerrick of unused space in said rucksack,1 but by and large it's done.

No doubt I'll spend the next few days unpacking and repacking in a vain attempt to jettison something, because that's normally how I roll.

The only major task outstanding is take ...