Today: Glorious clean sharp sunlight and a fresh breeze keeping delivering comfortable. Pleased to have my regular colleague Kelly back. We fly through the delivery.

Very sad to learn that John Last OBE has died. He was Vice Chancellor at NUA when I studied there, a man full of vigour and brim. He lived on our delivery and it has been alarming watching him deteriorate into ill health. Reminded again of the intimate nature of being a postie, the joys and sadnesses of watching life.