In absentia

No intention to not blog for a month- I just got very busy. My planned two week stay in England turned into three weeks, as I was making such progress it felt a waste to lose the momentum. In that time winter has turned to spring and I have completely emptied and cleaned my father's flat, got it redecorated and recarperted - the decorator said that the flat smelt better after I got rid of the last (and most detoriated) carpets. At the same time I have been trying to keep my business on a level kilter- keeping one major (and intellectually demanding) project on the go and picking up on four or five new clients' requests. Also "processing stuff" about where my life / career etc came from and where they are going - how 'love let me down' and how, in what feels like, an emotional wildernesss, I might find the time, energy and motivation to try again. That hasn't left me much time to blog about the relative merits of the UK / NL public transport systems etc. etc.

Some of these issues (especially the last) still need to be resolved. My stay in the NL is teaching me so much about efficiently managing the resources that are available to me, yet at the same time offers me so little inspiration about how to relax, enjoy my life and not let work and money dominate my life. That's a paradox - because one of the things that attracted me here was the laid back attitude of Dutch people to work, with most people in my circles not working Fridays. Seems like I have way longer to go get these things in balance. Listening to and supporting others going through similar growing pains helps this process.