What I’ve been up to

So I was on holiday. In Italy. Visiting the in-laws, and eating lovely food, and lying on the beach. It was ace! And now I'm back, and I have work to do, and I have to forget that I'm sunburned and that my legs ache from all the cycling I did. I'm not accustomed to cycling.

I got so badly sunburned on my lower legs that my ankles nearly disappeared while my feet and legs swelled up. And this was on Friday, so I really couldn't find it in me to go back to the beach on Saturday. Which means I missed my last day of beach-lazing, all through my own stupidity in not applying sun-protecty cream before exposing myself to the sun. I feel like a bit of a twat.

I'm usually very good with sun-protecty cream. It's very important. Especially for us tattooed folk. Tattoos fade much more quickly if they are regularly exposed to the sun. But ultimately it was those couple of hours of bike riding, that's what done me in. Done me knees in, that is. Grrr.

Other than that, though, I had a fab time. I love holidays. Didn't think about work hardly at all. Didn't even check my e-mail. If I had found an Internet café (how bizarre is that? We couldn't find an Internet café! Don't you just love rural Italy?), then I would certainly have been more keen to blog than to check my work e-mail anyway.

Normal service? Not quite yet. But I'm getting there...