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I landed in the UK at about 6am, after a 6-7 hour flight from NY....no sleep. It was brilliant to see my beautiful Olly at the arrival gate. For those who don't know her, Sharon Olive is a very good friend from the UK. She lives with her husband Pat in Farnham, just out of London. The last time Olly picked me up from an airport was in Nov 2001 when she was in Singapore and I was flying on my way back from India. On that occasion I burst into tears, gave her a big hug and commented how clean the Singapore airport was (in contrast to the dirty one in India!)
Olly drove me to her place where I had breakfast (vegemite on toast, first time in a couple of weeks and it tasted great!!) I am going to use Olly's place as one of my bases in the UK, so it was great to sort out luggage, catch up on news with her and Pat (both of them are home at the moment which is fabulous considering they fly all over the place with work generally), and unwind.
Olly and I wandered to a quaint cafe for lunch - got to get use to English pounds and pence now instead of US dollars, then I got stuck into gardening (yes, you heard me right!) I promised Olly to help in the garden to pay for board, and as I had at that time gone about 24 hours without sleep and wanted to keep awake. Olly and Pat have a gorgous place and garden, and need some help with controlling ivy. I worked in the garden for a couple of hours in lovely 15c temperature, whilst Olly did work. I loved being outside where I didn't freeze to death..it is definitely warmer than NY.
The evening was a bit of a blur, Olly cooked a lovely dinner, we shared a bottle of wine and then I crashed. It is fabulous being back in the United Kingdom. It has been 17 years since I was last in this country, and I am really pleased to be back.
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