We are back

Wednesday 9^th September

I thought while I was having an early cuppa I would get a quick post into the blog.

Lisa, John and David picked us up from the Sea Princess on Sunday using two cars as a couple of friends from the ship were joining us for Fathers Day lunch.

It was bedlam in the arrivals lounge getting through customs but we made it eventually without any real drama.

As you can imagine it was wonderful seeing the family after more than three months away. David told his mother we (she) weren’t allowed to go away overseas again for that length of time, although it would appear he had a meal with Lisa and John just about every second night so he didn’t starve and Myra and husband John, kept in touch with him and fed him a couple of times, such good friends.

We arrived home to find the house and garden immaculate with fresh cut flowers both upstairs and down and Jasmine from the garden in the bathroom and bedroom it was such a pleasure to be home Lisa must have worked her butt off. John hasn’t had work lately and used his time to spruce up the garden and once again it all looked a picture.

We had a magnificent lamb roast lunch that turned out to be pork and that’s another story and actually the butcher’s mistake. Later we dropped our friends Melissa and Ian back to the ship for an emotional farewell, they live in Freemantle and we had become extremely good friends on the ship.

Being the tail end of winter here the weather is fabulous coolish nights and perfect days of warm low to mid twenties without humidity, now I know why I live in Queensland although another couple of months I’ll be complaining about the humidity.

Monday we started to unpack and had the washing machine running 24/7. Nancy in her usual disorganised manner had stuff every-where looking like the place had been trashed and not being able to find anything she wanted but we are getting there.

We discovered the bank had made a mess of automatically paying our Mastercard account each month while we were away and instead of taking payments out of a account with funds in it they took it out of a account without funds and charged us overdrawn account fees. So yesterday (Tuesday) saw us spending quite some time at the bank having it all reversed, which they did without any fuss it just took up a lot of time.

Now we have a mountain of paperwork to review, hundreds of emails to check and several jobs to attend to such as dentist as I lost half a tooth the day before we got back. Haircuts for both of us, car service that was overdue before we went away, caravan to check out and so on.

It’s lucky I’m retired there is never enough hours in the day.

When it has all settled down I will edit photos and bring the blog up to date.