The Chinese have an expression along the lines of: After three days guests start to smell like off fish. In Australia, we all just went a bit crazy. Our fabulous holiday with Lesley, Steve and Rita came to an end yesterday, after 26 days in Sydney. This time together was a real tonic and we're going to miss them enormously. Before leaving we made sure their Skype was set up and running, and we shall endeavour to keep in touch more regularly than recent years.