Time back in the UK

We're just back from visiting friends and family in the UK. Lost track of how many beds and sofa beds we slept in. Thanks to all for having us.

Great to see everyone again. Apologies to those we did not get round to catching up with.

Comforting to note that not much has changed since we've been away.

Joss and I both remarked, however, how expensive the UK felt. We were judging this on our personal 'Big B Triumvirate Pricing Index' - i.e. Beer; Burgers and Benzine. Kinda like a poor man's amazingly accurate Economist/Big Mac Index (a method I've always been fascinated with).

Our, well, my, arrival coincided with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Nothing to do with me honest! Disaster for farmers of course. And did not make for a particularly livestock-centred agricultural show @ Cranleigh this year (situated a few miles away from the source of the outbreak).

None-the-less we had fun and it was great to endulge in a typically British event.

M