A good post, Expat. Glad you managed to do without a mortgage. Paying rent is dead money. We paid for our houses in UK and here.....but if we do have one in Ipswich Turnoi may have converted it to rubble by now.

My mind is turned to 'how do I get my car out of the garage when I return- it has a perforated sump..Oh-Ho?' A friends says I should be able to drive it out of the garage on the starter motor, not the engine. The battery I left sitting on a windowsill trickle-charging off of a solar-powered charger- and it's been like that for a year.

What about my sansevierias (spelling?) will they be dead?

Ah yes! Beware of Turnoi. Quite right, he neither forgives nor forgets, and he makes threats!

Now your mind is focussed on personal matters back home. Is that ......rias a kind of flower? I expect so.

Bye for now.