When I woke up today, at first I didn’t realise where I was. It took me seeing Morten’s face on the pillow on my right, and then realising that my mobile was on the night stand on my left before it dawned on me that I was actually at home, in our bed.

I took a shower in the warm, familiar bathroom, and am now having breakfast in the living room, with all my dvds “looking” at me, as well as the photos on the mantel. Those are my speakers, and my Nintendo Wii next to the TV. My books in the bookshelf. And my piano in the corner by the door.

Yesterday, I checked out of the hotel early and headed out to Heathrow. However, they were only letting people in who had a scheduled flight in less than three hours, so they put me in a marquee and gave me a cup of tea, but I was pretty far away from the heat source and so I got really cold after about an hour. I explained to the guy at the entrance to my check-in area about how easily I get urinary tract infections and could he please let me in so I could get some warmth in me. He agreed and told me not to tell anyone. Kind of him.

And then I waited. While I waited I went to a café upstairs and had a cup of soup, and talked to a Japanese man whose suitcase informed me his name was Kimura. He said he was stranded on stand-by to go back to Tokyo. He was an international liaison with a drug company which, get this, was owned by Kirin, as in the beer.

Then I checked in, sat in the business lounge for a while and went to the gate when the screen told me to.

The flight was a little bit delayed, but not by much. On the plane I sat next to a man called Julian (Jules) and his son Julian (Jools). Jools was drawing guns, so I asked him about them and got to talking with both him and his father, who were trying to get home to Sweden. (Jules was English.) Jools let me watch an episode of Fawlty Towers with him on his dad’s iPad.

Then we landed, only 20 minutes behind schedule, and the rest, I think, is history. My parents and Morten picked me up and now I’m here, happy as can be. Off to see my mum now. We’re going last minute Christmas shopping.