Decision Time

The last eight months has been a bit of an adventure. Not one we'd signed up for, but an adventure nonetheless.

Day after day we've been trying to find our way, hitting unexpected hazards, scary possibilities, and periods of excruciating boredom. We've learned loads of new skills, from the mundane to the important and had the chance to use our time differently. Maybe even had time to consider the view.

Then, really quite suddenly and in record time science turns up and offers us a way back down. We find ourselves with a choice to make. Continue the climb, or call for rescue.

Rescue can get us back to where we were before this all started, by Spring next year, and can probably get off the dangerous part of the climb a little earlier than that. Back to safe territory.

Or we can continue the adventure and explore more of the opportunities we've discovered. Working differently, perhaps with different people. New routines. New perspectives. More hazards, and the possibility of failing. Underst…