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Yup. I filled in our 32 A4 page census last night and posted it off. To be fair, only 30 pages of the census had to be filled in, but that was quite enough thank you. Particularly given that you seem to be spending a vast amount of time just filling in your names.

First you fill in the first name and surname of everyone in your house for any reason whatsoever. Then you fill in the name of the householder again and give the householder's relationship to each of the other people in the house, in the process of which you have to write all the names in again. Then you reach the individual pages, wherein you each write your names in yet again and answer a load of nosey questions. My mother couldn't remember in which year she finished work so we're just hoping she doesn't get busted for it.

For my part, I wasn't certain whether the date I retired from paid employment was the date I stopped work, or the date on which the company stopped paying me, having had what I guess you'd call paid unemployment. Let's hope the forces of law'n'order don't decend upon me if I got that one wrong...

But most of all I hope the police 'copter circling overhead whilst I went to post the form back to the census centre didn't think I was the guy they were after.

I hate it when that happens.