It all started pretty well, and got better. My keys went to hubby’s work with him, so 8am saw me hunting the spare car key and taking the back door key (spare front door keys are 1) with my parents 20 miles away and 2) next day and the neighbours left for Australia yesterday. I have their key, but don’t know where they keep mine). Work was essentially fine, as it often is on the first day back as generally I try to maintain my holiday attitude to life and not let anything worry me. There were plenty of emails, things to read and gossip to catch up on, after all we all need to know what is happening in the world of the office. About 2pm though my work PC died; just went off and when you tried to switch it on again it emitted a loud beeping noise. I reported the demise to the IT department who asked me questions like, what happens when you restart it? I held the phone close to the PC for them to hear. My call has been logged and now we wait. I used someone else’s PC for a while, but found I couldn’t follow links from emails to the internet as ‘access was denied’. So I decided instead to go home and get myself to the supermarket; there are only so many days you can live with basic provisions in the fridge!

So that’s my first day back, but it is only right to finish off with some pictures of where I would rather have been!

This first picture is of the Yellow Train in the Pyrenees and the second the Etang (inland sea) near our beach house.