Return trip?

I think I’d like to go back to Tunisia. Philippa isn’t keen because there’s been a terror attack since we were there, but if we’re going to limit our destinations to places that have never been touched by terrorism, we’ll end up having a holiday in Swindon. I just feel like booking a holiday. It doesn’t bother me when the weather is nice and we’re living in a beautiful part of the country, but the weather HASN’T been nice. We’ve been drenched rather than sun-drenched and cooler than an ice sculpture of an icicle. Yes - today has been lovely but all that’s done is help to highlight how shite the rest of the Spring has been. So my mind is drifting abroad and my fingers are searching travel company websites for possible places to visit. I’d still like to see Mexico, but I don’t fancy the long flight. It needs to be somewhere warm, inexpensive, friendly to the British and not too busy, so I’ve given us quite a narrow field to play with. Maybe I’ll just let Philippa pick somewhere and go along with whatever she suggests. Her ideas tend to be more sensible than mine, and it would do me good to relinquish control for a change. Well…. let me rephrase….. It would do me good to relinquish the ILLUSION of control that I sometimes convince myself I have. In reality I have as much control over our decisions as a leaf has over the wind. Me trying to control Philippa would be like an ant trying to control a gorilla. And I’m NOT comparing my wife to a large primate, before any of you write to complain….

RC 23-5-17