April 2011.


96. About living in another land, Colm Toibin says, '.....it hits you that all the things you use to keep going are missing - friends, habits, spaces you`ve made, all those things are gone. So you are absolutely down to zero.` *

I'm beginning to feel this now so it is time to leave this spectacular spring and head for England. When I return the grass will be knee high once again and some flower shows I will have missed.


* Interview with Susanna Rustin in the Guardian Review pages, 23/10/10.