This was a walk I did with Mum the day I arrived home.
Christmas Day!
When the sun came out!
After a whirlwind of four months, as Christmas approached and the lights went up and the Christmas songs started playing, I could not think of anywhere I wanted to be more than home. Arriving back to a snowy Christmas Eve in London, I was met by Mum, Tim and Michael who had all come out ridiculously early to meet me!
Christmas is a wonderful time to be home aside from the obvious, becuase everyone at this time, has some time off and so I was able to see lots of people for much longer than I would have at any other point. To sum up my week, my days were spent eating and drinking! seeing family, catching up with friends, playing board games, watching films, going on freezing, country walks with Finlay!, baking, sleeping and more eating!
For those of you I managed to see, it was just such a treat. I enjoyed hearing everyone's news and I was so sad to have missed being there at the time for it all. I am so aware of how useless I can be at getting in touch and it's hard to keep in regular contact sometimes. However, having caught up on people's news, I am now determined this year to keep in touch much more regularly. There, I have written it now so I must keep my promise!
For those of you, I did not get a chance to see, it will just be even lovelier when we do meet however, judging by the time, we will need days and days free to catch up so be prepared! haha!
I had the most wonderful Christmas at home and I was so sad to be leaving everyone and going back to being so far away again after just having got used to being able to call people anytime, but I was also so happy to see my closest friends and family well and happy in what they were doing. I wish you all the very very best in exams, jobs, finding flats, law courses, applications, essays, marathon training! and I promise to be there more to hear how it is all going at the time. I am so lucky to have you all and miss you all already and want to hear all of your news as often as you can spare the time to tell it.
Luckily, after having such home comforts at my own bed, a lovely heated house, driving, home cooking, seeing friends and family daily, english tv channels etc, a piece of home, in the form of my family, (as well as as much pasta, cereal and tea that I could stuff in to anyone's case I saw!) flew back to Hong Kong with me to stay for ten days..
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