Variously:

1. I am back in Kurdistan, for two weeks this time. It’s pretty much as I remember it: the people are welcoming, the city sprawls and grows almost as you watch, and the work is exciting. The main differences from my last trip here (apart from knowing the lie of the land) are that I have a colleague with me, and it’s about eighty degrees. Both of these differences are adding further gladness to the proceedings. 2. I am knitting for a baby who isn’t born yet. This is one of my favourite things to do. I love the idea that even before he knows what it means, this new little one will be wrapped in something that someone made for him before he made it out into the world. I won’t know this child -I may never even meet him – and he will have no memory of his teeny hat and socks. But still, somehow, this is a meaningful thing. 3. I won’t be seeing Alan for two weeks. This is as long as we have ever not seen each other. As soon as I get back to the UK he and I will be heading straight off on a long-planned holiday to France. This means that by the time we get home again I won’t have seen my daughter for three weeks, which is the longest she and I have ever not seen each other. Sometimes I feel as though the world wants me to be more grown up that I really am. 4. I have been on five flights this week (I spent a day working in Cardiff) and three of those flights have been less than an hour in duration. I can’t help feeling that the flying e...
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