Thanks for all the nice messages! Carbon and I had a low key Christmas day and today I'll be doing sorting and packing for our next road trip, heading from Germany to Cornwall on New Year's Day. No more mad dashes this time around, it will be a steady but manageable 3 day drive.
The transition from USA and constant activity while helping to care for my father's partner Donna and back to Germany has been a bit rough, not going to lie. Christmas is always a bit dodgy for me: I love the decorations and spirit but with both Duncan and Brogan having died on 22 December, I definitely have mixed feelings.
This year being in Regensburg for only one "functional" week prior to Christmas week meant cramming a doctors, vet, lawyer, and other assorted necessary errands into only a few short days. It was a challenge, especially when all I wanted to do was sleep 12 hours a day. A little extra touch of winter depression going on perhaps.
Carbon has been a real star: so very patient and willing to hide under the duvet with me as needed. It doesn't hurt that he seems to have had even worse jet lag than I did! It's funny that I never noticed jet lag at all with Brogan, possibly because Brogan slept the entire flight and Carbon sleeps very little.
This last flight we were sat directly behind the first class galley (kitchen) which meant Carbon slept not at all as he had to be ready to leap into action when a Labrador-sad-face-susceptible member of the flight crew came into view. That is a story for another day, but suffice it to say that Carbon enjoyed the bounty of first class meal left overs.
I'm so glad to be going to our bolthole in Cornwall, I can't even say. It feels like I've been looking forward to January since we left in June! Though I doubt we'll be having daily adventures to document, we're officially on to Labratour Part Eight (wowza) and hopefully we'll be having a good share of MLF visitors to share the mayhem.
xx
