Re: the blog

It's been two and a half weeks since I last updated; in fact, I was no less than on the other side of the planet when I updated. Certain matters have delayed me. On return from a long stay in a foreign country, I like to relax and pretty much not do anything for a week or so. Then the next nine days was spent visiting family and friends - having contact in the real world not the virtual one. But now I will restart the blog in earnest, despite outward appearances of the home island not especially exciting. I was less than enamoured on my return to Britain. Coming from Mongolia, which had mostly unobscured blue skies (except ironically in summer, when the rains are prevalent), where many women would qualify as models, the men have a rough-hewn quality and clothing isn't just an afterthought, making my way back from Heathrow (sans suitcase, another tale) there seemed to be loads of badly-dressed, ugly people under a leaden sky (that at least delivered on its promise and rained). But adaptation comes and you accept the mundanities of your new reality, for there is little else one can do. Not to be too negative, however, it is pleasing to be back, though equally I could have spent the whole summer out in the Land of Blue Sky happily. Oh yes, and I'm changing the timezone from the next blog, so all the entry time logs of the whole blog will change (because no-one blogs in different timezones in the home of the blogger.com creators, despite their own country having at least five). So for the record it's 10.41 am.