which i guess is quite apt given the turn of the month!

but not quite!

but its neither Pontoon or summer!

I guess its to be expected, it is October after all!

I mean obviously it's ticked by, second by second but i seem to have missed it all somehow.

of summer! Farewell September, hello October.

I think it is the rain that's falling down.

yep, a proper Lucky Bag to end the week.

I dunno, but it seems most of those i have left are essentially digital.

is here, what happened to the summer?

of a pauper writer!

Well sort of

sat typing this at eight in the morning on an overcast but still warmish morning in my hometown of Sheffield

Well we are back in Berlin ahead of our flight back to Blighty tomorrow it’s been warm today travelling down from Hamburg, it was 30c when we got to the capital! And it’s been very humid too so not the most comfortable of days.

We have some more time in Berlin tomorrow before a tea time departure back to Bristol.

What have we done since Sunday? Well on Monday we spent best part of 7 hours in the model railway before finishing the day with a couple of hours in the nearby Maritime Museum. A warm day but we were in air conditioned luxury for most of it.

But not forgotten

So on Monday we set off on our long planned trip to Berlin and Hamburg, both, as it happens, destinations that Dad loved to visit. We’ve had time in the capital and I write this from our ICE train taking us to Hamburg.

It’s been a bittersweet time, we went to Potsdam yesterday which I first visited with Dad in @ 2007 and going around Berlin I was remembering visits with both my parents in the intervening years, happy memories at least.