I have been back in Australia about 60 hours, and I'm starting to get used to it.
My wife and I have been off chasing walls and fences all over the place from Chester to Hadrian's Wall to London to Rome and Pompeii for one new book that is still on the back-burner but taking shape. I have also been looking at waterfalls in Switzerland (that one's on the secret list for now), and at gold artefacts in Singapore and Europe, and looking at other sites in Italy for the still-projected 'Cornish Boy' series.
Now I am back in Oz, I will be settling down to sort out the final draft of 'Australian Backyard Naturalist', though the next month or so will see me also in New Zealand, around the Flinders Ranges of South Australia and Lake Eyre, in Brisbane (for the CBCA awards—for which I am short-listed) and in Coffs Harbour, all in the next two months, with a new book out on November 1.
It's going to be a busy rest of the year. I'm so glad I retired, because otherwise, I could never get through the work-load.