I'm baaack! I hope everyone is okay?
I went on holiday and didn't have time to use the Internet or email much, so took a break from mumsnet.
Thank you @AprilLady for checking in! I'm okay, just more tired after my holiday than before!
It was a great time though. We went to Yorkshire, and the weather was freezing but perfect every day we were there, but our coming home day was a day of biblical rain, and the East Coast Mainline was flooded in two places. Cue chaos! No way to get back home to London.
Stuck on a train (with very kind, patient staff) for nearly five hours at York, before a grand tour of the pennines to Manchester (that train was delayed too) before a passenger became sick on our West Coast mainline express to London. We had to wait ages for a medical evacuation for that lady in the middle of Northamptonshire and I hope she is now fully recovered. Then the lift was broken at St Pancras.
Honestly, anything that could go wrong, did. But everyone, passengers and staff, were so kind and patient, that our twelve hour journey through the north of England (!) strangely didn't feel like an ordeal, but actually seemed a really lovely experience showing the positive side of humanity, and being all stuck in the same boat, everyone helped each other. I've never met so many lovely people in one day.
Arrived home at midnight exhausted though and it's taken me a week, and I'm still recovering!
Also, stop press! I didn't wear a drop of scent the whole week I was away. That's never happened before, let me tell you. Ever.
SOTN tonight though is Samsara, and yesterday was Spellbound. Don't forget to do the clocks tonight. It's properly autumnal, now. I'm so pleased.