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🛬 Back home

I returned from Madeira today, and just arrived back home - I'm spent.

My brother got off the plane and said I need a pie so we had lunch at Pieminister (listening to Blur 🇬🇧) before I waved him off on his drive home.

I worry about him driving. Not because he's bad but because I'm scared. We're not a very demonstrative family - he told me once about how he'd started saying I love you to our parents when he left, but dad sort of laughed it off - he started because his friend's dad died and they'd had a conversation about how he wished he'd said it more. That made me feel so touched and melancholy at the same time.

My brother said I love you as he walked out the door, but he was gone before I said it back. I think he knows, though.

#blaugust2024 #mood