Thanks Ian.
The Boy from the Bay blog is more a personal therapy than anything else, as laughable and "American" as that may sound.
There was a time, before we had kids, that I never even gave The Bay a passing thought.
However, children do tend to make one appreciate ones roots more and now, as odd as it might seem when one considers that I left home at 16, I am more homesick than ever.
It isn't the kind of homesickness experienced by the 16 year old me who left to join the army, the pang for known territory when immersed in an alien environment.
No, this is more of an urgent nostalgia, a wish to return to earlier times. A hope that my children will appreciate where I come from.
But I wouldn't take it too seriously Ian, I'm definitely not a serious chap ;-)
