11th May – Day 30

Today I am at the Pymble Office for a Business Development meeting with the Company’s Australian team via Video Conference facility then a Cultural Diagnostic meeting with some chap who is going to save the world by asking a number of us about our Barclay Mowlem experiences.
Then its back to the city with Matt Clugstone who is a top guy. We chat about everything during the trip.
After work Matt, Sarah and I head to the Art House for a coke…..well no a beer or six, (problem with working in the city, there are 789 bars all within two minutes of the office). Gin and Dave turn up and again I am the 16 man. Everybody heads of, two happy couples and one lonely family-less soul. I get back to the unit and something really bizarre happens, I sit down and don’t move for about four hours – I spiral into lonely depression and would give anything to have my family with me, missing them terribly. There is a programme on TV that does not help about people saying either Hello or Goodbye at Sydney Airport – I am an emotional wreck. Cant explain the feeling although despondency just about sums it up. I finally stand up, at 12, take my suit off and go to bed – really low - thinking about everybody and everything back home, family, friends, everything.