I shall fly home on Wednesday, for the Hanukkah festival, and then the Christmas holidays

My friend Cassandra is going to look after my cats, so Tuesday I will pack them up in their carriers and Cassandra and her boyfriend will drive over and collect them. Then, Wednesday I have an early flight.

I am looking forward to feeling a little warmer in Portugal, the temperature here today is minus 1, in Lisbon it is a mostly sunny eleven Celsius! Although it is forecast to be raining most of the week, it will be seventeen Celsius on Wednesday, Friday nineteen!