Arrival

Apart from security becoming ever tighter, nothing much changes in international travel. Airports will always mean queues and a miasma of mixed perfumes as you choke your way through duty-free, and security and immigration officials who never smile. One surprising change at Heathrow though – we didn’t have to perform the manage-the-multiple-bag dance on arrival. […]

Two Into One: Reprise

Further to my recent post I’m happy to report that all boxes that we transported from Wellington have been opened. The process was quite straightforward: open a box, decide what we want to keep, find its partner in a cupboard/drawer and replace this with the Wellington version. The idea is sound; the practice…well, let’s just […]

Goodbye 2024

A lot of people are glad to see the back of 2024, with a feeling that 2025 can only be better. I don’t want to bring the mood down but I remember similar comments at the end of 2020; I hope this optimism is better rewarded. I had to pause to think about my own […]