Homesickness, homecoming and homework

No sooner had we started to feel fully settled in our new home than the urge to be back amongst family, friends and our own culture has hit. It is the little things I miss, like being able to go for a brisk walk in the cool air, being able to communicate fully and freely with contractors so they tell you before cutting the power to the pc (grr!), being in the same time zone as people so that you don't have to make all your phone calls in the late afternoon and evening with a fractious child and a tired Mummy, and so on.

So we are booked to return to the UK in May although before then I need to finish assembling the Falklands plant data ready for the next phase. So it is all systems go. Fun stuff like baking, crafting, photography and hard phys are on the back burner until the blessed spreadsheet is populated. Big Man recently said "there is only one thing more boring than data entry, and that is talking about data entry" but if you could picture an Excel file 324 rows tall and 101 rows across, equalling 32,724 cells in total, then that might give you some idea of my days at the moment. Currently 39% complete!

Better get back to it ...