Here we go again

Here we go again. I'm not really referring to the recent election, which gave the red-green (centre-left) Labour-led government another four years in office. Given that there hasn't emerged any credible alternative on the slightly-to-the-right side of the political spectrum (excluding the Progress Party) that is not at all the worst result.

I am also not really heralding any re-launch of my blog; that all depends on my general level of inspiration at any given time. As anyone following my blog have noticed, my level of inspiration has not been very high lately. The most recent entry in my blog is dated April 20, almost exactly five months ago. Hopefully my muses will return..

What I am referring to is of a personal nature, really. When I started writing this blog, I was living in Prague. I had just quit my job back home as a teacher and left for a job in a global oil-company - which sounds deceptively lucrative and glamorous. It was not.

Anyway, before I left for my little odyssey abroad, bringing me to the Czech Republic and to the UK, I often felt like one of them polar explorers or hunters who let themselves freeze into the ice around Spitzbergen. It really felt like I went into hibernation just waiting for the winter to end and, literally and figuratively, for the ice to melt, so that I could sail south again. Living here back then I felt kind of far removed and separated from the rest of the world.

Now that I am back, and the autumn is here and the winter will soon be arriving, it again feels as if my ship is freezing in once again. Still I feel a little better about it somehow. Why it is exactly why I feel better about it this time, I don't know. Maybe it is because I had my fix of 'the World' for a while, or maybe it is because my family-situation is a bit different now. It's hard to say, but somehow I don't dread the coming winter at all right now..