It seems to be an enormous undertaking to close the front door on your home for 5 weeks - bigger than if you were going for 5 months or 5 years, in some ways. At least then you know that you have to switch off the fridge and the water, or get a house sitter or a tenant. I have told the milkman we are going away, and when in person, but am worried in case he forgets - he did once idiotically leave bottle after bottle of milk on my doorstep over a week's absence: I am therefore craftily "testing" him out by cancelling the milk 5 days before we leave, to make sure he has registered our temporary cancellation!!
Another thing on my mind is the welfare of my small garden. I am in a frantic spate of gardening, now that at last the weather is gloriously spring like, in the hope that vicious pruning, weeding along with strong attacks on slugs and snails will mean that the May garden I come back to will show some signs of being a garden, and at least rescu-able for the rest of the Summer. My favourite ramblers and other shrubs are getting a very generous mulch and feed, but sowing my pots of basil, parsley and salad greens will have to wait until I get back ... frustratingly. Yes 5 weeks is a difficult interval of time: it's just too long to leave pots of seeds to germinate and generally take care of themselves in self watering pots, under a water-saving cover of clingfilm - this usually works beautifully for about 3 weeks, though. Try it, if you haven't before.
We bought dollars this week - horrifications! Compared to this time last year, your UK pounds buys a sad amount. No rash of shopping for me in the USA this time around! I have bought my little grand daughters' books and handicraft kits in pounds, and any treats while I am there will be cheapskate ones.
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