Return To Warsaw

I have decided to return to Warsaw. I sent my departure notice to the landlord on Wednesday, so that made it official. This will probably come as no surprise to anyone who read my diary piece about Warszawa recently. I'll be departing mid-October, just in time (ahem) for my birthday. It is a present to myself, we can say.

I will not, of course, disappear from abctales. If anything, I will be doing far more, and I mean FAR MORE, writing there than I have here recently.

I am feeling slightly sick right now, not because I will miss London....I sincerely hope I never see London again...but because there are so many niggling details to sort out.... still, I've done this many times before and sooner or later it will be finished.

I will miss the live events and informal get-togethers, though. That's the only thing I will miss about London.

No one goes to Warsaw for the weather or the architecture. There is nothing charming or beautiful about it. I may be going there simply because it is familiar, having already lived there for nearly 5 years, and it is not London, but that's enough for now. At least I won't feel under siege all the time.

It is probably self-indulgent posting this, as if anyone cares where I live, but writing is self-indulgent by its nature, isn't that why we're all here? A safe (mostly) place to be self-indulgent...the promise of the internet.

Now, back to those boxes that need packing.