Travelling light?

As you can see, not travelling very light at  all - the Horlicks, Cadbury's chocolate, nice tea and other useful items which are harder to get in the US takes up space.  We also bought some cushions (!) and expanded our summer wardrobes a little.

Our flight was fine, although taking the full 8 hours today, and the airport not too busy so we were home in good time for the supermarket and to unpack.

It is very warm here - 76F when we landed and feels very humid as apparently 6 inches of rain have fallen in the last two days!!  It is certainly looking much greener and there are many shrubs and trees in flower around the road and a few in our garden which I will explore tomorrow.

The birds had of course eaten all the seed from the feeders.  Rather more worrying was evidence of some indoor nibbling.  Throughout the winter I have kept bags of bird food in the kitchen in a metal basket on the floor.  Much of the contents of the big bag of sunflower seed - or rather the husks - was all over the floor and a neat hole munched in the bag itself with more husks inside.  We have no idea how the mini-thief got in and there are no other signs, we shall see what happens next.