So … granted this post will only be interesting to a few of my long-suffering friends, but I thought I’d write a “what I did on my holiday” post – in the Sub B / grade 2 style (with slightly fewer misspellings).

The dreaded family xmas turned out to be FANTASTIC. None of the things that I had imagined would happen did, and all the imagined tension was just that — imagined.

What a pleasure to reconnect with family, some of whom I hadnt seen in 13 years and to learn that we still get on like we always did.

I had a true “return to childhood” holiday – the Natal beach holiday where you never get out of your costume, stay active, run around with water pistols, and sing xmas carols like you mean it.

It was a total break from the grind – especially because I stuck my cell phone on silent and put it in a drawer for 90% of my time away.

Then I headed down to my beloved Eastern Cape to spend New Years in Kleinemonde. Here I continued the completely cut off from the world trend, surprised myself by swimming a mile in one go, and read three meaty novels. We also enjoyed an anti-Oxbraai evening of all things calm and cultured.

Kleinemonde pics are on my flickr photostream.

And now I’m back at work and it’s pissing with rain. Appropriate much?

Happy 2009!

Eeek – almost out of this decade and we still don’t have an acceptable name for it! [Ed's note: the term "noughties" is too awful for words]

Anyway, I am back from my much needed holiday. Brown enough and freckly (damn genetics!) and oozing zen-buddhist calm (for the next 12 hours or so).

Holiday round up and pics to follow (at some point).

Hope you had a great one!