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Grumpy

Is short tempered the same as bad tempered? What do you reckon? If there is a difference between them, I don’t think it matters because I am probably both.  I am homesick, 32 weeks pregnant, sore, snotty, tired and probably a bit of a growling grump. After seven years living in this wonderful land Downunder, I would have hoped that homesickness is something I would have done the “hard yards” on, and wouldn’t experience (much) anymore. I think it maybe a bit more than homesickness; I miss my mum, and she’s been gone for a good long time. I may not even really miss her, but the idea of her, or the idea of a mum. God bless my Dad, he is the best, but he hasn’t carried a wriggling growing small human inside his middle. When I moan at him, and I do, I worry him. I hear it in his voice, and he is too far away at the end of the Skype or Facetime call, in a different time zone on the other side of the world to know I am alright really, I just want to tell him all the ba...