Another holiday gone, another year starts

It’s a couple of days since my return to the UK after spending 2.5 weeks in Greece with my family and friends. Today I managed to sort out through the few hundreds of photographs I shot on my phone while I was there and as a result I am feeling very homesick. This feeling only exacerbates the weird mood I’ve been since I’ve come back. While every other return to the UK has been marked by homesickness, this time even my own home doesn’t feel like home. I feel like a stranger in my own flat. My bed feels strange, the smells in the house feel odd. Either a very bad case of S.A.D. or maybe a sign that my time in the UK is coming to an end. Time will tell. In the meantime…...

it’s been pretty darn long!

It’s been a while since the last time I managed to find the time and more importantly of all the mood to write in this blog. Pretty darn long really. Life has been full of surprises, some good, others rather awful. However it’s a Sunday afternoon, I’m listening to my favorite essential mix (Blame Feb/10) LOUD, I’m having the 5th frappe of the day and feel like I’m melting, due…...

life, lemons and lemonade

When life serves you lemons make lemonade goes the saying and these days life does taste like home made lemonade. Some times overly sour, sometimes overly sweet. On occasion sour but with the grains of sugar crunchy between your teeth. Some things are going extremely well, others very badly and in some cases I have no clue what is going on. Days merge into nights, weeks change and suddenly it’s the end of February and I’m wondering where two months of my life have gone and what have…...

chicken al’expiration date

Coming home tonight the last thing I wanted to do was cook and it was something I was dreading all the way home. I had the sort of day where a server goes down at 17.10, twenty minutes before the end of the day. Anyway I could not avoid the task as I had accidentally defrosted chicken breasts for enchiladas that never happened and had to be used else I would have to throw it out. So I cooked. Along with the chicken I also had peppers, chorizo, tomatoes and cheese that would expire, also mostly…...

working from home vs working at the office

Today I took the opportunity to work from home, something that I don’t do very often, but absolutely had to be done in order to make some significant progress in what I am currently working on. Like every other time I do this, I woke up early, had my morning coffee ritual and then started working. Since then I managed to zone out and focus at the huge task list at hand without significant interruptions. I finished at 5.30 this afternoon, having probably done about twice the amount of work…...