Thanks for that, Duolingo...

I spent the past two hours packing, weighing, re-packing and re-weighing my bag, trying to get it down to 7kg. First weigh-in of the night was 8.8kg and the last was 6.8kg, hurrah!

(Basically I'm going to dress for the flights as though en route to Antarctica and shove a few things into the boys' bags, which I'm counting on being under 7kg when we pack them tomorrow.)

Then I opened my Duolingo app to do my nightly German lesson and got this sentence... 😅

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