Monday, May 25, 2009
Time to move on
Bags are packed - just one more sleep to go.
We are tired and perhaps ready for quietly slipping back into our normal world, though the moment now feels sad as we prepare to leave our loved ones.
Today has felt flat really.
We searched in Central Mall for Jessica's birthday present with no success.
The days of a portable radio and headphones are now in the past.
Maybe the same is true in the UK, I don't know.
The modern world is so much one of throwing away last year's items and buying the latest gizmo.
Us old folks just do not fit into such a world.
Anyway we will see what we can find at home and will have to post it. Jessica maybe will just have to become au fait with Ipods or MP3 players or whatever.
Jamie and Mam bought some food in the Central supermarket - Waitrose owned. Jamie and I had to persuade Mam that Waitrose morning coffee biscuits are not worth 3 pounds.
We ate in the cheap food hall in the mall.
It does seem to have been a long succession of eating places.
We met the children from school, drove up Rang Hill for a last good view and then ate at Dairy Hut.
My gut is telling me it is time to ease off the eating.
The children have now showered and Jessica is doing her homework.
Soon I can have a little time with her. We have a present of a pretty notebook and pens and a drawing book.
I am glad that it has been decided that they can be a bit late for school tomorrow morning and will come with us to the airport. Apart from my needs I am sure it is beneficial to them to appreciate the finality of our going.
I am sure the next blog will not be until Wednesday. All being well we should be home by about 10 o'clock UK time - but remember this will feel like 4 o'clock in the morning to us after almost 22 hours from Jamie's house to our house.
Don't forget to check Jamie's blogs regularly - his weather blog and Phuket blogs are written 2 or 3 times a week and often include family pictures and snippets of news. He doesn't update his private blog very often because he runs out of time and that blog doesn't make him any money.
Hope those in the UK have enjoyed the Bank Holiday in the warm sun. I hope it lasts long enough to warm us too.
We are tired and perhaps ready for quietly slipping back into our normal world, though the moment now feels sad as we prepare to leave our loved ones.
Today has felt flat really.
We searched in Central Mall for Jessica's birthday present with no success.
The days of a portable radio and headphones are now in the past.
Maybe the same is true in the UK, I don't know.
The modern world is so much one of throwing away last year's items and buying the latest gizmo.
Us old folks just do not fit into such a world.
Anyway we will see what we can find at home and will have to post it. Jessica maybe will just have to become au fait with Ipods or MP3 players or whatever.
Jamie and Mam bought some food in the Central supermarket - Waitrose owned. Jamie and I had to persuade Mam that Waitrose morning coffee biscuits are not worth 3 pounds.
We ate in the cheap food hall in the mall.
It does seem to have been a long succession of eating places.
We met the children from school, drove up Rang Hill for a last good view and then ate at Dairy Hut.
My gut is telling me it is time to ease off the eating.
The children have now showered and Jessica is doing her homework.
Soon I can have a little time with her. We have a present of a pretty notebook and pens and a drawing book.
I am glad that it has been decided that they can be a bit late for school tomorrow morning and will come with us to the airport. Apart from my needs I am sure it is beneficial to them to appreciate the finality of our going.
I am sure the next blog will not be until Wednesday. All being well we should be home by about 10 o'clock UK time - but remember this will feel like 4 o'clock in the morning to us after almost 22 hours from Jamie's house to our house.
Don't forget to check Jamie's blogs regularly - his weather blog and Phuket blogs are written 2 or 3 times a week and often include family pictures and snippets of news. He doesn't update his private blog very often because he runs out of time and that blog doesn't make him any money.
Hope those in the UK have enjoyed the Bank Holiday in the warm sun. I hope it lasts long enough to warm us too.
