Back home again

It's Thursday afternoon - I'm at home, catching up with paperwork etc and Jo has just popped round to Anne's for a coffee. It's now 4 days since we got back on Sunday afternoon and I'm still waiting for the jet-lag to kick in. I can't believe it - I haven't really suffered so far. Of course, there's occasional bits of tiredness, but there would be anyway whether we had travelled long haul or not.

I think Jo has found it a little harder and certainly we have been going to bed a little earlier in the evening - the average so far has been 9 pm, but we're still getting up at 6 am. I even joined the Freewheelers on Monday's cycle and coped OK.

Tuesday was my second physio appointment in Inverurie - I've been given a new exercise and she applied some kinetic tape and has told me to go and play some golf and try it out. We had coffee with Carole afterwards - Luca was on half-term break/in-service day, so we weren't needed for the usual shuffling around. It was nice to see them again, however.

Jo was back at her swimming on Wednesday and I went out for another short cycle before attending the CAMRA branch meeting in the evening.

Our journey back from Australia went like clockwork - at least until we got to Fettercairn. Our driver, who I don't think had ever left the Central Belt, couldn't believe it when he saw the "Road Closed - Snow Gates Shut" sign. We had to re-direct him through Stonehaven and over the Slug road.

We miss Australia and everyone down there - and the sunshine - but it's also nice to be home again and we've been very fortunate with the weather, which has felt almost spring-like and it's only mid-February. I fear there must be further shocks to come.

Our house took ages to heat up after the heating being on a very low peep for 6 weeks, but it's fine and cosy now.

We haven't seen Gary yet, but we'll catch up with him on Tuesday. We need to catch up with Ross and Lizzie soon as well, but not sure when we'll be able to do that - and we're also due FaceTime calls with Kelly and Lucy too.