Acclimatising

It has been rather tricky getting used to the weather back here. Yes, I was in Scotland and yes it was around the same temperature there as it is here at the moment.

A couple of significant issues have made it a little tougher to settle in back here.

• we have crap heating in our homes (or at least I do) and most other places too - now those Edinburgh types have the right idea, with more chimney pots than you could poke a camera at;
  


• remember, it was summer there and it is winter here, so I shouldn't complain - after all, I went there of my own volition;
  


• I may have stopped off in Abu Dhabi and caught up with Georgia for a couple of days on the way back (ok, I did), and it may have been 45 degrees C there (ok, it was)...

I guess another difference is that there is daylight there from about 4.30 until about 10.30 at the moment, which is again a little different to waking up in the dark and getting home in the dark back here.

I am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that I actually have to get up and do work again now, rather than waking up when I feel like it (usually just before they stop serving brekky) and spending the day wandering around places such as the forests in Glencoe...