So- many apologies for not having written sooner -according to my last post, we'd still be somewhere in the Hushe Valley! Fortunately, as beautiful as it is, I'm now safely back home and enjoying a well earned break (if I do say so myself!). I arrived back in the UK on the 15th and am now catching up on the mountain of work that has accrued whilst I've been away. Photos are all developed and now in the photo album, which I'm very proud of (I'll post them onto this site asap). Lecture bookings already coming in for the next few months, which is great.

It's a little weird being back. As usual, I've expected the whole world to have changed whilst I was away, and there to be lots of good gossip. However as I catch up with friends and family, I realise that not much has happened over the summer, and how most of them didn't even miss me!

It can sometimes be difficult returning from a big trip, especially one like this which has required so much planning, and has been the focus of my dreams for 3 year, because once the initial excitment of being home dies down, one can be left feeling quite empty, with the void that the post-expedition return to normality brings. However, luckily I don't feel like that. I've got enough exciting projects lined up for the rest of the year to be looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into them. All I could dream about whilst I was away was more trips, expeditions and adventures, and now I'm back, I'm in a position where I can start trying to get those balls rolling. I hope that the next 4 months should be quite exciting, and set me up nicely for 2010 and what the new decade will bring.

In the meantime, I'm taking part in a charity dodgeball tournament tomorrow in Wimbledon Park, so I'm psyching myself up for that. Just remember the 5 D's of Dodgeball:
Dodge
Duck
Dip
Dive
and Dodge.

and that if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball...