Hello everybody! I’m back home from my holiday and I’ve just had one of the most glorious showers ever - after flying for 16 hours to get home (and totally missing October 31st in the process, not that we do anything for Halloween here anyway) I was feeling rather stale, so it was wonderful to close my eyes and just let the water flow over me.

As for the holiday? Yeah it was ok. Well duh, of course I had a fantastic time, but there’s nothing like a month-long holiday to make you appreciate home. It was so nice to look out of the plane and see Australian soil after 13 or so hours of darkness and water, and better still to see South Australian soil on the last leg home. I must have become used to seeing big cities like London and NYC when landing at the airports, because Adelaide looked so small in comparison (which it is!), and I wondered for a second whether that was really it. But yes, it was really it, and it was so nice to see my home town.

I took around 1000 or so photos on holiday, so that will take ages to get onto my computer, and I’ve got at least 3 loads of washing to do and a heap of sorting out of souvenirs and presents. Oh, and we bought so much chocolate it’s not funny - my carry-on bag had almost solely chocolate in it, and it was quite heavy! Most of it is for other people, but of course we did buy the odd one or two blocks for ourselves ;)

Thankyou so much to my guest posters - I really appreciate you taking the time to write on my blog as well as your own while I was gone.

We discovered something cool when we got home. We got some surveillance cameras for our place before we left because some turd has been trespassing. The cameras record some video whenever motion is detected, but also send an email notification with a still of the scene, so we could check from overseas when something (or someone) was snooping around our place.

Of course, we got a lot of false ones, like next door’s dogs walking around their yard, or our other neighbour’s washing moving on the washing line, but check out this visitor we had:

How cool is that! See, it’s not just a stereotype - Australians really DO have kangaroos in their back yard!

Anyway, off to do more sorting and washing and sleeping and relaxing… how nice it is to be home!