I spoke to my parents on Skype earlier. They’re fine, of course. They mentioned, though, that the queen’s baton passes through my old home town, congleton, today. Proceedings can be monitored here. Of course, this is hardly worth mentioning, except for personal nostalgia purposes: it has been ages since I visited the old place, so it is good to see it flagged up. Mind you, I am a bit puzzled over why Congleton gets special mention; it isn’t that notable a town, yet the beeb headline is ‘Queen’s Baton Relay England: Manchester and Congleton’. Why not Crewe or Macclesfield. How curious.