Pastures old and new.

Having now returned from my 12 month backpacking holiday in Thailand and Australia I find myself in the unusual state of significant illness. Without wanting to dwell too much on this and the promise of a 48 hour recovery period I have decided to invest some time in my blog. Before I left England I invested in a leather bound travel journal. This, I thought, would become my main travel companion. To log ones thoughts and feelings while on the road can spur the memory to the exact time and place of writing even years later. But in all honesty I hardly used the thing. Recording memories with photos and video seemed to use up enough time and every time the journal came out it was almost even a chore to write in it. Now I am back in the midst of drought affected Southern England. Illness confines me from seeing my friends and England hurled out of the world cup I have new born energy to record here some of my experiences over the last year. The Codeine is working.