I'm back! Safe and sound and happy, but my computer seems to have some sort of virus? My attempts to fix the problem consist of alternately poking and flailing, but until the computer gets sick of the poking and fixes itself, I can't really use the internet, alas. I have to steal my sister's computer whenever she goes out, which is a very unsatisfactory solution for both of us.

Ah, well... I will have to occupy myself by studying! and cooking! and playing sport! and doing other such uncomfortably productive tasks.
 
On the subject of cooking, I made lemon cordial yesterday that was ten thousand times better than the store-bought stuff, and we have blackberries and fresh honeycomb on the property at the moment. How exciting is that? And when I get my hands on some sweet tofu, I'm going to try my hand at Japanese cooking - especially kitsune udon and inarizushi and, oh, the sweet red bean soup! I nearly forgot, I liked that so much. And! I brought back tea canisters from Japan so now I can buy new tea! I'll have to conduct some intensive and arduous hands-on research to decide what I want to buy...