Ok, so there has been some silence on our part. I got an email a few days ago as to what, exactly, had happened to the Bugs…

Well, we didn’t fall off the earth, but we did: finish work, have Christmas at Heathrow, see families, have South African adventures, be happy, be unhappy, be happy again, get back on planes, get back off planes and get back to the grindstone.

South Africa- beautiful and lovely. Warm and sunny. Fun and stressful. South Africa was brilliant to come back to, and hard to come back to. It is hard to try and re-integrate yourself after a year away. Even if you feel the same, people will take your homecoming as an opportunity to tell you you’ve changed. Which can be a positive or a negative. People will also think that this is the perfect time to ask all encompassing questions of you, which can be hard to answer. But small negatives aside, I had a great time bonding with families and friends, living off the rand (things are not as cheap as I was hoping!) and trying desperately to cram everyone’s lives into a few hours of interaction. Open apology: If you live on planet earth, in the land of South Africa, I can guarantee that I didn’t see you as much or spend as much quality time with you as I had hoped.

So…South Africa was just too much and too amazing to fit into this post. But it is still amazing, still the country of my heart, Joburg is much prettier than I remember, and Primi Piatti is just as good.

Getting back to Edinburgh was cool…literally. Still icy and chill, although today is a balmy 9 degrees, leading all the Scots to chirp ‘Beautiful day, isn’t it’. Um…yes, yes it is.

Back to work, many decisions, many stats, many changes. Back on the net- trips to be booked, money to be earned, relationships to be maintained. More people on the couch. More Facebook profiles to be updated. Life is carrying on quickly, as it is wont to do.

Upcoming excitements:
1. Anyone we can persuade to visit us in Scotland.
2. The song says ‘Don’t come back to Stockholm’, but we are defying it and returning soon.
3. Alicante- rocking out on the coast of Spain.
4. Jen’s pilgrimage home to see the Sisterly Spawn (June-time).
5. Decisions, decisions- New York, Croatia and other pending trips.
6. Decisions, decisions- the need to find new and exciting housemates from May, as the old exciting ones embark on a 5 month road trip through Europe.
7. The exciting year in which Kyle and I transition from being people in our early twenties to being in our mid twenties.

Be sure to stay tuned!