Is time to go! After over 2 years of just a long weekend in Naples and Lisbon I’m sitting at Gatwick waiting for my flight to Borat country. High Five! I LOVE Borat and am still waiting for my lovely cousin Janice to knit Ween a green mankini for his competitions. The time is passing Janice and he is getting saggier as the years creep by. Please, a mankini to hold everything together.

After packing for about twelve different weather conditions, I am off to join a group of .....erm....... botanists. But not any old botanists, oh no, I thought I’d liven it up by choosing ones specialising in tulips. Who says I don’t know how to live. I may be having more excitement than I can handle - a blog I read says nothing about places, people, scenery, but whoops of joy over Scilla pushkinoides and sighs of relief over ferula tenuisecta. I must practice my whoops of joy. Gaseous nebula and brittle bladder fern were also seen as well as some copulating tortoises