Well, this was disappointing. I was ever so careful about loading it up at the workshop into a cardboard sleeve, with two of us gently easing it into a big A1 portfolio.
Gadget Boy was out and it was a sunny day, so I thought I’d finish the soldering outside on the picnic table (also given that my workshop is full of boxes because it is scheduled to be emptied to be levelled up … a long story).
I stood the portfolio upright and carefully eased the cardboard packing out, holding the left side and bottom but forgetting that this was a round thing and that I hadn’t sealed the sides up. It leapt out of the cardboard sleeve, bounced and rolled, hit a garbage can lid on the ground and broke apart. 
On the bright side, none of the glass actually broke. Possibly the anti-clockwise spiral was successful in keeping the evil spirits away? Blessed be. The copper foil and solder came loose from the glass on all of the big pieces, but all the work I did on the blobs and ice cubes won’t need to be redone. I dismantled the rest of the big pieces apart and salvaged as much of the (expensive) solder as I could. The most disappointing thing was being so close to finishing it — I’ve lost at least a whole day’s work on it. It will need to be re-foiled and resoldered, but I doubt I’ll get to it now. It’s one of those yak-shaving things at this point. (Can’t do it until the workshop is levelled and the boxes unpacked; that won’t happen until they finish doing the guttering and essential repairs on the house; that won’t happen until we get three or four days of good weather forecast etc. etc.)
I packed the whole thing away in a box. Maybe I’ll get it finished over Christmas.
