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I am currently trying to re orientate myself back into home territory after four months working in China, a week's holiday in Shanghai and another week's holiday in Singapore and the flight home. My body clock is awry and I'm having trouble sleeping despite my fatigue - but any traveller will understand how it is.

The pile of mail is horrific, and the challenges I have to deal with at home will keep me busy.

Sadly I have arrived home to discover that my family have kept from me that my mother has been in hospital, so I have some challenges in dealing with my elderly parents who are in need of care, but refuse to accept any assistance, so I will be travelling to Adelaide next week to try and sort some things out there.

Returning to China? Mmmmm. I will have to think hard about that!

It is good to see family and friends again, and after 4 1/2 months without being behind the steering wheel of a car, I'm back driving, and the old instincts kicked in, and apart from having to negotiate a mass of roadworks that have appeared, I'm doing well. Still haven't ventured shopping! But I'm all shopped out after Shanghai and Singapore.

Where would I prefer to live? That's not hard to answer. China. I have no doubt that I felt safer there. Are you looking at this wondering if I have lost the plot???? Despite all you hear about the communist regime in power, they certainly don't put up with some of the nonsense and petty crime that we endure here. OK, so I'm not really in favour of capital punishment, but I think that we have to do something about our apparent "acceptance" of crime that is making our life difficult. I see the walls and fences in our neighbourhood covered in graffiti (I saw none of this in China or Singapore!!) and our news reports and newspapers are filled with terrible stories about acts of violence against innocent people. I don't want to watch the news. Actually I don't know if the newspapers or news broadcasts included this information in China - as I neither read nor understood Chinese I happily existed without being bombarded by all the negatives that we seem to accept in Australia!

The Chinese people are so positive - they exude enthusiasm about their country, and their life and their grand plans for the future. Sure, they have many challenges, but I felt strongly that they understood that there were many things they needed to change, and they were doing it. Slowly but surely.

Anyway, I sit here, listening to Chinese music and thinking about the possibilities - and wondering what the next few months will be like for me as I try to sort out many things in my life.

Writing? You bet. I have so many stories to tell!

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