It Finished Where it all Started

Ellie & Meg on the boat with me

I've been back at work for 4 months now and it's always been on my mind that I have not kept my cult following (well follower) up to date with the closing stages of my Long Leave. So here goes.

I guess reality started to dawn that my long leave wouldn't go on for ever about four weeks before I was due to go back to work. I'd had a taste of freedom and now in a cruel twist of fate,  I had to return to the shackles of 9-5, train journeys and corporate speak - just on the subject of corporate speak, my favourite expressions since I have returned to work have been:-