Well, it’s official. The Poles are invading Sri Lanka too. A one-woman wave of imigration is headed this way on the 13th of December - my lucky day. By complete co-incidence Lidka has found herself a swanky job at the UN in Colombo doing geogphical data mapping. Conveniently enough, that’s where I live, so we will be living together for a month before spending Feb travelling South India. My surrogate family are going to let her stay because I’m ‘like a son’ to them (haven’t I done well !?). Otherwise, it’s a highly unorthodox move - my workmates have been seeing their fiances for 4 years and haven’t yet spent the night with them. Can’t be worse than a ’Wrath o’ God’, B&B up north. Can it ?

I have never been so well behaved in my life.