How Stupid am I - and how will I cope?!

[Karen Barker]

I have ordered HBP from Amazon and cannot wait for the 16th July to 
arrive - along with one or two of you I understand!

I have a long standing arrangement - ie it's all booked and has been 
for a long while - to take my small son to the seaside for the 
weekend together with his friend and his friend's Mum.

It has just sunk in that we are going on the 15th of July and coming 
back on the 17th.   AAAAAgggggghhhhhh!  How could I be such an 
idiot?!

I could just go and buy another copy at the seaside but then I will 
just want to read it and that would be really rude.  I can't cancel 
as that would be letting everyone down but I'll be really bad 
company as I'll be on tenterhooks just dying to get back home to 
read it.

So, when you are all reading your copies at 00:05 on 16th July, 
please spare a small thought for me because I will be banging my 
head on a table and shutting my ears in the oven door in a small 
caravan at a seaside resort on the east coast of England!!

Karen