Update

Hi Folks, Well it seems like I have never been away. Launched straight into Christmas preparations but have caught up now. Had lots of ups and downs. Said goodbye to our Leader at Guides a sad but happy occasion! Christmas parties attended and survived. Been given a present already by my work colleagues - the cold! Just in time for Christmas oh joys!

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas will enjoy catching up with most of you over the holidays and looking forward to a New Year - could this be the year!

Back to Normal!

Santa Parade!

Rugby League World Cup

More Santa Parade!

Mini Golf

Well back in the UK. The Santa Parade was fab and we got sunburnt sitting watching it! We had a game of mini golf before going to the airport our last bit of sunshine and fresh air for 36 hours!

The flight home was better managed to do a lot of sleeping and arrived in London quite refreshed. Which is more than can be said for the toilets in London Heathrow it took me three attempts to find one I felt comfortable using why is it all toilets and cities abroad are so much cleaner than ours?

Anyway we arrived at Edinburgh and my daughter was waiting for us pleased to see us home and our luggage arrived too, always a bonus. Home for a lovely soak in the bath, tea and bed. Can't say it is great being back nice to be in contact with everyone again but finding it hard to settle. But as I have not done any Christmas preparations before we went have had to launch myself into that but it does seem right now that there has been some snow on the ground.

What a welcome back that was on Tuesday having three inches of snow and a two and a half hour trip into work followed by a three hour trip to work on Wednesday. Welcome home me!