back in the UK
Another trip back ‘home’, and another opportunity to reflect on what it would be like if/when it really does become my home again. I don’t need to repeat that it is cold and expensive … although in this four-week visit I only saw a few light drops of rain on my second-to-last day, and a market stall in the middle of the City of London was selling three ripe avocados for £1, so it could be worse! & perhaps I don’t need to repeat how pretty it is, from the great buildings in the City to the beautiful villages and woodlands (full of wood anemones, primroses and bluebells at this time of year). As an added benefit, on this visit I stayed for a couple of days with a new friend who lives near Heathrow … and also near to some great moorlands that I would not have expected in that part of England. A keen birder (I met him on my birding trip to the Seychelles last year), he took me out for a couple of birding walks, where I not only got to enjoy the scenery but al...