Travelling

I have been travelling in England for a couple of days and I left my laptop at home deliberately. Firstly because I had a lot of baggage already and secondly I wanted to see how I would cope without it. Am I addicted to modern ways of communication? Well, yes. I did pop into an Internet cafe once to write some emails and check a few things. And I cheated from the outset because the Blackberry let me read my emails any time, any day. And I did. Scary!

I took notes on the trip the old fashioned way (pen and paper- my handwriting is a mess!) and will blog those over the next couple of days. I may even back-date the entries to the actual day. Would that be cheating? (Added Oct 27th - For the record: I have decided to cheat.)

The cat was very well looked after while I was away. He had a babysitter in the shape of my dad, who loves him to bits. Sometimes I think he loves the cat more than me. But both of them looked happy to see me again yesterday. The cat spent the night wrapped round my neck like a fur coat, purring. My dad, of course, did nothing of the kind.