Month: February 2023

Day late!

Life has been in an upheaval lately. My father is in hospital with Covid pneumonia and of course, my Mom got Covid too!

I find this to be the hardest part of living abroad. The time change makes it very difficult to get updates. Mostly because I get up at 6am UK time and have to wait to a minimum of 9 am US time. It’s hard not knowing what is happening and not being able to get real time information from my elderly parents.

I was ready to drop everything and fly home, but my Mom didn’t want me to cancel the holiday we have booked for tomorrow. I’m still prepared to fly at a moments notice, but it would just be from a different location.

We have a family meeting scheduled with the hospital later today so I should have more information.

One of the main reasons we moved to Europe was to be closer to my family. Australia is so far from everywhere. I was viewing Facebook memories and realised I was back at my parents last year for my Aunt’s funeral.

I will likely fly home regardless of what happens so I can see my parents are fine.

Another trip south

Today I am flying to London Heathrow for another work trip. I’m in Windsor for the next two day and I’m looking forward to the days out. Travel can be annoying, but I have the opportunity to go to Dublin for work in a few months. Since lockdowns ended, I’ve just been traveling back and forth between Scotland and London. But I have meetings and dinner planned so it should be a quick, fun trip.

I have decided I’m going to write every Tuesday, but work has been chaos so this will be shorter than most. We are back to normal even with Covid running rampant through the UK. I’m still recovering from Covid a few weeks ago, but each day is an improvement from the last.

I also started a Couch to 5k program this week so I am trying to figure out what time of day I want to run. I learned it is not mornings as I refused to get out of bed today!

I think I will try tonight after I check into my hotel.