Firmly ensconced in the new job now and I am very much appreciating the being at home every night and the distinct lessening in the stress levels. I doing miss some of the travelling as I expected I might and some of the pseudo-prestige of being the main man and covering the entire country but, work-life balance is balanced again, and that's worth a fortune.
So, I may not be doing the miles but I am getting inside some places that I hadn't seen before. Spent a day on a RAF base and found out that Ministry of Defence security guards have no sense of humour but that despite all the security you can still get your Tesco delivery van onto the base with your shopping. Went inside a 200 year old school made out of a load of terraced house that I have walked past hundreds of times only to find that it is massive and stretches back a quarter of a mile. Been inside the British Library building that I have wanted to go into for 20 years. Saw some books so old that I had no idea what they were about even though the titles were in English. And today went onto a part RAF, part USAF radar listening base and saw the listening array close up. Wonderful thing even if it does look like a demented Borg cube!
Life goes on. You win some and you loose some, but as long as the balance works in your favour, then its the right choice.
