I’ve just written our letter of thanks to Kenya and DM Tours for our amazing safari. I know, we’ve been back for 2 weeks and our thoughts are still in Africa… incredible isn’t it. Don’t miss an opportunity to go. Promise.

And today I’m putting together a list of plans for this year. Definitely the first quarter of the year is full. We’re booked solid and we’re out of cash so if you want to suggest anything or plan for anything make it from April onwards ok? Any suggestions will be seriously considered. Our plans re: Glasgow / Paris are moving forward. I don’t want to jinx anything so I’ll remain ‘mum’ until if and when the contracts are signed…

We have a trip to Dublin planned for this coming weekend with Maddie & Dave which should be a lot of fun, and hopefully Michelle’s allergy to Guiness which she developed at Barry’s wedding won’t come back! The following weekend it’s off to Mull to accompany Michelle’s buddy Robert on his last Munro to complete, Ben More. And then the highlight of this first quarter will be Pakistan. We’re off to a wedding in Pakistan with our friends from London. It’s a long story, but the short version is, Gabriel is the best man, and we’ve wangled an invitation to the celebrations and all the razz-a-mataz by agreeing to help look after Moselle (3) and Jonathan (2) throughout the 10 days in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Of course we’re paying our own way but the advantage for us will be to witness a true Pakistani wedding which goes on for little under a week – hopefully, that is! It’s not all clear yet but we’re confident it should all work out…

Now I’m up to the cleaning up the files bit. You know, the boring stuff, the stuff you’ll do just about anything else so as to avoid. Michelle is in Paris this week on a combination of things, again, and it doesn’t get better for some time. Same again next week. And probably the week after that.

What’s been happening with you?