Guess whose back? Tell a friend...

Well after 20 hours in the air, and a total journey time of just over 24 hours we landed back in Manchester to the same grey day I took off too. We were worried about gting through customs with all our stuff, and getting landed with a C&E bill of a few thousand pounds but we just breezed through the gate to meet my grandad.

When we did get back we sorted the bed out and planned to crash for an hour or so and then go out for a drink, but like most plans, it turned into 14 and the next thing we knew it was 5:30am and we were wide awake. I ended up at the local shop buying things for an English breakfast (yes, including black pudding Hayley, and it was yummy!) and the whole thing was delicious! A nice cup of proper tea for the first time in 6 months went down a treat!

So after breakfast we proceeded to sort out our room from the bags of clothing we'd left to the clothes we bought to sell on eBay and alike for a few hours and some how I ended up in the garage tidying half of that up for an hour or so. We took three bags of clothes to the charity shop, all of it brand new stuff that was to inexpensive to justify selling on eBay thanks to their ridiculously overpriced fees on small items, and Royal Mails increases in postage costs, it didnt even warrant the time taken to list them... so Age Concern have bagged probably a few hundred quid easily, and although there are better "causes" of charity in the square, Age Concern is the best place to buy clothes!

We hit "Spoons" for a beer and a burger at lunch for £3.99 each, and tried to get the won changed, but all the exchanges were giving us rates of close to 2000 won to the pound, and although its "only" £10, it damn well is nearly £10 difference so I held on to them for the time being. I knew I shouldve changed them at the airport but after getting off the plane, it was the last thing on my mind. I may be sending them back to Mike to pick me up some games at Yong San over changing them for £10 difference - the postage costs would be the same as the fees and Id feel like that £10 was doing something other than lining some slimeballs pockets.

But I digress! We hit up the Legion to see Ken, but he wasnt working until 5 so we then went to the Cricket Club to meet Amys parents before finally ending up in the Links for the footy and a few more beers. We caught Dax coming home from work on the way to the CC, but he was practically on deaths door so we left him to have a kip! Phils fan belt snapped and he ended up not being able to make it, Dax was still KOed from the previous night and Jonny didnt show up in the end! It was only Adam and Heather (Amys brother and girlfriend) and Stef that came out, and Chris who was working behind the bar anyway. England drew in a soccer friendly against Holland, but I wasnt really watching it at all.

All in all, Im back and it still feels like the same old town I knew from 6 months ago. A few changes here or there, but in essence, nothing has changed. Whether thats a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen, but for now, Ill be happy to be back. I guess I havent seen my mates yet so I wont be thrilled to be back until I do, but Ill peak up when "the boys are back in town"!

Again, if anyone has mailed me at my hotmail account and I havent replied, please resend it, or try to my Yahoo email (delmorphacease@yah00.co.uk with o's instead of 0's in yahoo, damn spam monkeys ) - Im getting paranoid about my mail not arriving, or not getting to me now!