Carry on blogging!

One of my own difficulties in keeping up a blog is that once anything is finished, I find it hard to 'finalise' it: hence the ends of bits of blog tend not to get written. So I never wrote up the end of my Grand Tour, which included a very pleasant drive through wonderful Autumn colours, a visit to the ballet in Plymouth, a visit to another historic Quaker meeting house in Long Sutton, Somerset, a trip round Stonehenge and a delightful day in Reading with two old friends.

However, all that is in the past and I'm in Cornwall again, having flown down this time (in, I have to say, one of the greenest of aircraft, if any aircraft can be considered green!). We were only just able to land because of fog, which had caused us to be diverted from Plymouth, the scheduled first port of call, to Newquay where I was going anyway! But flying was both a good deal cheaper and much quicker than travelling by train, and I do find nowadays that long train journeys in standard class are a real trial: I end up feeling cramped and arthritic and quite out of sorts, which is why I travel First whenever I can, and when it's not too much extra.

Cornwall so far has been a bit damp and windy, but it's nowhere near as cold as back home in Newcastle. It was up to a balmy ten degrees earlier today! I have been wondering, in the very cold spell the whole country has had in general and the North East worse than most, at least in England, what happened to global warming, and please could we have a bit of it here just now? I can understand, having had snow in the garden for over a month continuously, why people wonder if it's really happening at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm a believer, but sometimes as I shiver I do just long for the summer days, and when I see the pictures of the Test Matches I ache to be back in Australia!

So a definitely not-all-that-Green visit this time: but looking forward to the New Year's Eve celebration with my good friends, knowing there will be a wonderful meal tomorrow and the setting off of rockets and skylanterns to celebrate the start of 2011. May it fulfil all its promises! And maybe I'll keep this blog up more regularly too.