Brief Hiatus

A couple of weeks ago I headed off to the other end of the planet (Cape Town) for a quick trip for Kate (and Dayne's, but she's in the UK) birthday as well as a sunshine recharge before winter bedded itself down in England.  All well and good, the flight was terrible (I really hate flying, not from fear, but from the discomfort point of view).  It was absolutely lovely to be back and to see all those wonderful familiar faces whom I miss so much.

I stayed with Tony in Fish Hoek.  We had a braai joined by so many wonderful friends and family and I caught up on all the news I'd missed out on in the last 10 months. A couple of good friends couldn't make it and there was so much to do that I didn't get to see them.  Next time!

We're a fairly savvy and security conscious bunch of people down South but it still didn't stop burglars breaking into Tony's house on Monday afternoon and making off with mostly my stuff - laptop, UK phone, UK keys, UK bank cards.  Tony lost a couple of work gadgets and his deodorant! Damn, I'm still annoyed!  But, moving on.
 
That's the main reason I haven't done any blog posts recently.  I first had to get a new laptop (OK, I'm not too sad about that).  I finally sorted out my UK phone and discovered that you can get a dual sim phone - how clever is that?  But, I did lose a lot of photographs and data, so I'm having to do a bit of catch up with things.  I took a lot of photographs while I was there so I will get to blogging a bit later in the week. 

It's been back to full on Autumn with the beautiful colours as well as the clocks going back over the weekend.  It's not terribly cold yet, but it won't be long.  Please come back in a couple of days.  I've missed you.