^ I fear you are right.

Last night was the night for our Christmas drink... so it was clean shirt, clean socks, the lot. I like hotel bars and was looking forward to a few drinks sat at the bar with Christmas music playing in the background.

And the b@stard hotel has shut for Christmas... at least I assumed that's what the sign said.



To be honest it was probably just as well... I shouldn't even be thinking about this stuff.

And besides, the deck's against me at the moment anyway. My feet are absolutely humming... I guess wearing the same shoes every day for three months in the office and only having four pairs of socks is starting to have an effect. On top of that my room is stinking something awful. There's half a rotting lasagne on my window sill and the bladdy window doesn't open up wide enough for me to get to it. It's been there for about three weeks now and the rain doesn't seem to be washing it away. Every time I open my window the 4 inches allowed the smell just wafts in.

But we did share a few glasses of wine before going our separate ways. She's got hollow legs, this girl, and it's me the worse for wear today.



With all that wine I forgot to put my phone to silent and was awoken at 3am by my lovely daughter messaging me on Skype. She still hasn't worked out time zones.

She had two important questions...

'Why is a building called a building if it's already built?'

'Do you think sand is called sand because it is near the land and the sea?'

Good questions to be honest, especially the geological one, but not at 3am with a hangover. Although I guess I should be thankful that she's stopped asking me why Yogi was jumping on Coco's back.

Oh...

The good news is that the Thai Embassy replied to my email and seem quite happy about a change of flight! I can avoid Covid UK and fly direct from Gothenburg, and am in the process of re-arranging flights and ASQ booking to get a revised CoE. December 24th isn't the best day to re-arrange flights in Continental Europe, but it's gradually happening. It looks as though I could be back in Korat by the end of January!

The only bad thing is a pile of online Christmas shopping waiting for me at my mum's house, and my new DateJust sitting at a mate's place... but that will all have to wait.

I just hope my mum doesn't open up the wrong parcel tomorrow and find the 'naughty santa's little helper outfit' I was hoping to take back to Thailand, or I could be in for a few more awkward questions!

Merry Christmas everyone from a cold and wet Gothenburg!