New York, London, Lancashire, Isle of Skye, Longforgan and Pitlochry have all been wonderful - and I do mean full of wonders - but to finally lay on my own mattress and just sink into sleep was the most delicious feeling.
Home again.
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I know that feeling so well. Welcome home! I look forward to hearing about your adventures.
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I am so glad to be back. I loved seeing family, catching up with people not seen for twenty years and just being a Briton (sort of) amongst the British again but I am very pleased to be home again - and this is home.
ReplyDeleteEric Ravilious is the artist of the last two illustrations. I like him too but I had forgotten him and it was John at The Textile Blog who reminded me of him a few weeks ago.
I look forward to hearing of your adventures! My favorite trip ever (and although I am not as well traveled as some, I am fairly well traveled) was a one month tour of England with my husband's grandparents, confirmed Anglophiles who owned a flat in London because they loved the country so much. My husband and I started the trip in Western Ireland, then joined the Grandparents and went all over Southern England, from the west to the east, and made it as far north as York. My mother was born and raised in England, my father was raised in England, so I definitely feel at home there.
ReplyDeleteWe returned home on the 14th after almost 6 weeks of travel (in the states - we were home 1 week of that time), and I can relate to the feeling of finally sleeping in your own bed, your own sheets, your own pillow. Pure bliss.
It is always a wonderful feeling of returning home. Love the illustrations as well!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Southern Aspirations. I shall check out your blog later today after work - it looked really interesting at first glance.
ReplyDeleteWelcome home Barry! Don't you love that feeling when you walk into your home and "see" it again for the first time with refreshed eyes?!
ReplyDeleteAh Eric Ravilious! There are other monkish-cell beds in this series. I absoutely love his work and featured it in my post 'the White Horse in the English countryside'.. using your train image of course.
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