Home

The writing of this post is in a warm comforting home, wood fire burning away, supper had and a glass of local cider fizz being quaffed in an appropriate post bath moment. We have arrived home! This physical joy expressed well by Jasper.

The opening of the front door generally lead to whoops from the children and silence from the adults. In fact the silence fell all around as the children found their rooms and became immersed in dragging all toys out and having a good play. The adults however, wandered around in quite a lost moment. We didn't in fact know what would happen when we walked through the front door. The overwhelming feeling of a) we are home, b) we've done it, c) look at all our stuff, d) it's quite a nice place to live, and e) we have a list of jobs of things we wish to change, is what cultivated the silence. In fact this lasted some time as we wandered around, looking and remembering what felt like a museum of our life. It was all exactly as we had left it 223 days ago. Imagine taking a snapshot of your life and visiting it once again at a later date, being able to be immersed in it. Well that was us!

So now it seems that this adventure really has ended. The next one is always in the making. Hugo needs cleaning up, servicing and then putting up for sale. That will be a sad day that brings almost to completion the loop of what we have done. Getting a job will also be the next thing to do. This will certainly seal the end of this chapter of life. In the meantime, the fizz is flowing down very nicely (thanks Mum), and we raise a glass to everyone who has supported us. We've done it and we've made it home!

(Thanks to Catherine and John next door for the "loan" of some WiFi too. We are not yet connected so that is a great help!)