Well we landed back in the UK after a 9-hour flight back from Jamaica with ZERO sleep on the flight. We had premium seats and enough booze to send a wino to sleep but I was unable to sleep.
After a terrible time at the carousel waiting for our bags to appear which took an eternity, we were off through customs and passport control without a hitch to be met by Michele’s parents.
We said our goodbyes to our special friends David and Beverley and headed off into the Manchester rain. Upon arriving home my parents had put the kettle on as they’d stayed at ours looking after the 2 boys. Oh what a difference a good cuppa tea makes.
Spent the day working from home clearing the plethora of emails I’d received and working through the usual CAD Management queries. Also spent the day fighting the jetlag.
Michele insisted I had to stay awake until at least 22:00hrs so that the jetlag didn’t take hold, which was a hard thing to do. I watched United in the evening and that didn’t help the jetlag at all as they were poorer than poor.
Then had 3 full days in the office and each day dragged with the jetlag taking hold. Early nights didn’t even shift it.
The guys and gals at work had a collection for me for my 50th and I was treated to some wine a decent bottle of malt whiskey and 4 cans of Red Stripe (Jamaican beer) which sat tempting me on my desk all day!
On Thursday I tidied up some of the gifts I’d been given for my birthday and ended smashing a full bottle of Rioja all over me! I can blame this on the jetlag.
Weekend finally arrived and we had a fairly decent lie in (10:45) which seemed to kill of the jetlag.
Saturday night I watch Dr No and saw some familiar sights from Jamaica (Crab Quay and Dunns River Falls).
Sunday, we went over to see Harry, Sam, Matt and Drew. We also caught up with my brother and his family.
Then later Sunday night it was Boys Brigade enrolment night for the 2 youngest.
