First few days back home

Farewells were tearful, but we liked the story Kelly told us about Miller's reaction the following morning, after he went in to our room and saw we weren't there. "Where's Grannie Jo and Granda Ian-and?". Kelly told him we'd gone home and after a second or two, Miller burst out laughing and said "No - gone shops!".

The journey home was as good as it could be - everything went smoothly and on time. It was especially nice to have the chauffeur-driven car waiting for us at Glasgow airport and he whisked us straight home. We pulled in to Arbor Court not long after 2 pm on Saturday - which translated in Aussie body clock time as after midnight Sunday morning.

We plugged everything in and re-adjusted the heating cycles before unpacking and opening the pile of mail. I nipped out to get some bare essentials and we had a quick snack of toasted cheese before heading to bed just before 8 pm.

We slept pretty well and rose at a reasonable time on Sunday morning, seemingly not suffering too much from jet-lag. Jo went to church and I decided I felt good enough to go for a cycle on what was a beautiful day. The afternoon was a football-fest - I watched the first big game at home but then went to the pub to meet Colin - and Ken P - for the next big match.

Ross and Lizzie came round with my car in the evening - he had been using it as his car's battery had died.

So far, so good. Normal bedtime, but much shorter sleep this time. I must have been tired as I made a classic error on Monday morning. I remembered I had to go for a medical shortly after we got back - the first Monday in March, I recalled. Except this Monday wasn't the first Monday of the month, was it? No - it was a leap year - 29th February! I drove all the way in to Aberdeen and in to Nuffield for my appointment before realising the error of my ways.

When I got back home, I felt good enough to join our usual group Monday afternoon cycle, which probably helped me get a good 11 hour sleep in on Monday night.

Tuesday was Luca/Inverurie day - the first time we'd seen them all since early January.

Today (Wednesday), we both seem to be back in the old routine - I went for another cycle (my 3rd this week) whilst Jo went swimming with her pals again.

Enough narrative - now for a couple of photos:

Taken by Chris at the time we were setting up the camera for the end of holiday family photo

This is how much the houses at the former T-n-C filling station have come on since we were away