Checklists

My overcoat was bought for Melbourne winters. So it's only natural that it has stayed in Melbourne. I have been packing for more than fifty years - boarding school, moving house and travelling. Neither practice nor checklists has seemed to help. I always leave something behind. Except for once. I left a packed case open on the bed in the sun with woollen jumpers on top to come back to find I had extra luggage - three cats. It's all Dad's fault. He once made my school lunch. It was the best sandwich I have ever had. Lots of Mira plum jam on thick slices of Keast's fresh bread. Not only was there no room for the rest of my lunch in my school box there was barely enough room for the plum jam sandwich.