omorrow Mrs Quaisi’s mother is coming to stay for a month. I’m really looking forward to it. We get on well and it will be her first time to see Isabelle for almost a year.
I spent a month and a half last year away from her looking for a job in England and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
I couldn’t sleep properly, was a bawling wreck from the time I left them at the gates to the plane and rushed into a job I thought was temporary but I still haven’t managed to leave.
She’s only with us for a month but I have to make sure it feels like a year because parting is awful.

Better you than me Si. I also have a Japanese mother in law and I like her, but I need to take her visits in small doses.