Distance travelled by car in the last week: 1427 miles.
Least favourite road: M25
Number of family/friends interacted with: 48.
Probable length of therapy needed to recover from this: 6-8 weeks.
Oldest family member: 98 (Grandma).
Youngest family member: 2 (Freddie).
Number of dogs interacted with: 2 (Buckley and Russ).
Number of Godchildren benefiting from my moral direction in person: 7 out of 7. Full house!
Weight of US candy handed out: 23kg (approx).
Number of cups of tea consumed: impossible to quantify.
Amount won on UK lottery scratch cards: £1
Temperature when I arrived: 23.6C (74.5F)
Temperature yesterday: -3.9C (25F)
Average extra hours per day Hannah is working at Chevron, without me nagging her to come home: 2.5
Days until Lent is over and I can have a drink: 2.
Jacob and Rebecca, as cute as ever.
New family member: Buckley the beagle!
Oliver smiles over the greatest dessert ever: bread and butter pudding! Made for me by lovely sis-in-law Katharine.
Sheila popped into my parents' house to relive Californian memories, and plan a trip with Mum to see Emily in Uganda next year...
Neil, the priest who married us, taking us to his new favourite place: an all-you-can-eat Asian buffet in Swansea. Yep, the best curries in the world are found in this country.
Looking the part down on the farm in Wales.
Dairy genetic engineering - a cow with three udders!
Emily won 2nd prize in a livestock contest.
Uninterested lamb.
Proto-kebabs.
Emily, Aunty Liz, Roscoe the horse (right to left).
Grandma. She doesn't soften with age.
Miles, Reuben and Emonie on their garden trampoline.
Their rabbit, Barry.
