Bye Bye Tru

Trudie's been gone a week - how have I coped?

Trudie about to get aboard the Kodiak to depart Aiyura, at the start of her journey back to the UK

Well, it's been tough, but I wish I had a photo of the freezer from the day she left - food literally fell out of it, it was so full of goodies she'd made me. Otherwise, I managed to find something almost as cute as her at work to distract me (no, not the helicopter - even I don't go as far as to find it cute).

One of the cats at work with her new-born kittens

I have also done a little flying in the fixed wing recently to help me see parts of the country not so frequently serviced by the helicopter. Last week we went to Hoskins, on New Britain (an island to the east of the PNG mainland) which involved flying over this relatively recently active volcano and it's lava flow!

There are still a number of active volcanos around PNG

But I am mostly rather looking forward to our being back together again.