The plan for this weekend is to:
* type a little write up of my 2 week holiday
* carrying on the de-rusting and cleaning of a Hermes Media 9 I got for free in very poor condition
* an initial assessment of 2 french layout Underwood standards (5 and 6) that my brother-in-law found for me in a house clearance, which he kindly lugged through France for 7h, and I lugged the rest of the way to London

(Un)fortunately for me, now that all in my family know I collect typewriters, they will actively be on the lookout for new machines. My mom, as I was driving back to London, found 2 machines in a charity shop: and Olympia SM2-5 for 5EUR, and a wide carriage Alpine for 10. I only asked for the SM. I'm sure the Alpine is a lovely machine, but I really don't have the space to keep wide carriages (especially with the 2 newly acquired Underwoods).