If you haven’t already guessed, we’ve been on holidays. We left on the 18th December for Seoul, spent a couple of great, relaxing, albeit cold days, then hit Australia on December 24th. I’m still here, lazing about in summer wonderland, while Michelle is back in freezing Paris, washing and cooking and cleaning and working all by herself.

I do feel bad. But the upside for her is that she’s got a holiday booked in a couple of weeks to Mali on her own. It’s a walking holiday with Thales and I’m not in the least bit interested. A trip to Mali, yes. A trip to Mali walking 7 hours a day with Thales employees, no. So there you go, my conscience eased.

A typical day for me starts around 6am with the birds, we head to the aqua aerobics class at the local outside pool at 6.45am, shower, return home for tropical fruit and yoghurt before deciding whether to go to the beach, to visit a gallery or two, sit by the pool or head out for lunch somewhere… a quiet afternoon with a cup of tea and a biscuit in the breeze, before an early salad dinner, watch the 7o’clock news and maybe a series or two on telly, before retiring.

Have I lost you yet??