On Friday my wife and step-daughter get back from their month-long sojourn in Thailand. I have kept in touch daily though most of our posts via Line have been of the perfunctory 'good morning' and 'good night' variety.

I am surprised at how much I have missed Ann. I knew that I would but I didn't know it would be so achingly difficult. It's not that she cooks and cleans for me - I have long pulled my weight domestically - but that the absence of loved ones can be sorely felt. 

I will meet them at Kingsford-Smith with great gladness, though I know that they will be tired.

Here is one last shot she took before boarding a bus to Bangkok for the flight back home.