Back!

This is indeed the back of the house, but actually the 'back' I'm referring to in the subject is the return of Izzy, who flew in, late this afternoon.

I would like to have gone with Charlie to the airport to collect her, but I had a meeting at Salford University this afternoon. (We're toying with incorporating some AI into our software, but even though what we want to do will be useful to our users and can't be done with conventional programming, it just feels a bit, well, naff.)

Anyway, I had a drink afterwards with Steve, who came to the meeting with me, and the Minx, and then Dan and I walked down to Hannah's, as she'd laid on dinner for us, Izzy, and Charlie. 

Man, it was great to see Izzy again. It's been ages since we last saw her, especially as she didn't come home at Christmas so that she could come back for her thirtieth birthday next week. 

Despite the long journey from Kyiv, she was full of beans and we all had a terrific evening, before Dan and I tentatively made our way back up Chapel Street on the icy pavements.