A few days ago I sent this message to our Cherry: Hey Cherry ~ haven’t heard from you. Thinking of you, wherever you are. Need some Cherry energy. Write a few words, love, Phil.

So, today I am feeling all wintered out and ready to write a post about Spanish toothpicks, which will happen soon. Maybe not the most exciting of starting points but I was going to see what I could do with it. Anyway, when who shows up on my e-doorstep but Cherry of the Southern Hemisphere. Complete with pic with palm tree in the middle distance. Just when I am feeling so wintered out I get suntanned Cherry with a palm tree. See how it works! Love you Cherry.

Enough of me, here she is:
It’s great that Phil has welcomed me back even if I’ve not been the most reliable lately. I’ve been spending the last 4 weeks with my family and friends at home in Australia. I have mixed feelings still about being home. Thankfully it is only temporary as I’m off to Indonesia tomorrow morning for my final month of my travels. It’s a hard life.

Actually life has been a little hard lately. They say when you travel for long periods of time with a partner that it’ll either make or break. Sadly for us after nearly 5 years, it was break. I’ve been feeling rather empty. And then I stumbled on these wise words that I wrote 10 years ago which gave me some hope and a smile.

“Life has this strange way of working out right but not in the way you think it should. Life has a strange way of giving you what you ask for but not in the way you think you’re going to get it. Life has a strange way of making you suffer undeservingly but yet rewards you with unbelievable gain. Would you willingly put yourself through worse, with the possibility of unbelievable rewards? Of course I would but I’m a risk taker and I know full well that the only way to achieve the best is to suffer undeservingly at times.”

Peace and love from Cherry the newly Single Lady.