And I will be on the plane again – this time for the last trip back to KL after my 17 months of living with a foot in two places.

I think if anything at the moment I am feeling a bit cautious about anticipating what next. The last few years have been so totally unexpected that trying to predict what the next 12 months will bring just seems rather pointless. In the meantime I am hoping my two bags are not overweight, that my unaccompanied bag arrives ok and that I haven’t forgotten anything critical. My list of tasks is down to buying a driving lesson voucher for my youngest, dropping my coat off to the dry cleaners and getting someone to collect it for me and cancelling the contents insurance.

The main thing that has thrown my planning off is the sudden onset of Wellington summer when my dressing plans for this last week was a final cycle of winter clothes that could be washed and donated. Instead I have had to find some of the summer things that were packed.

While its difficult to be saying goodbye to many friends, I am looking forward to being home again and picking up the threads of my expat life. I am in a different mental space after the career successes of the last few months and it will be interesting to see how I make choices once I have re-settled.