"...a confusion of emotions..."

Today I was going to write solely about the conflicting emotions I have been experiencing since our (temporary) return to Iceland..I feel so at home here and miss it all so very much...and T can´t understand that. He only remembers J and I being unhappy here but as I point out to him that was not always the case, especially once I started to make friends, get out to work etc. He cannot believe that I would love to move back and the irony is that everywhere we have gone this week, I have met someone that I know..a turnaround from the days when we couldn´t walk down a street in RVK without meeting one of T´s friends.T has also reminded me that he would have lost his job had we stayed and certainly looking at house prices this morning suggets that we would not have been able to buy a house here..but that doesn´t make it seem any clearer :-/. Deb said this trip would be difficult for me and she is not wrong and she is probably right again when she tells me that she doesn´t think we will feel settled in any country for a good few years yet..However, its been good for J who has spent all week renewing old and trusted friendships and good for EB to spend time with his beloved Amma and Afi but oh, oh so confusing for yours truly. Not for T-he is still so sure we made the correct decision and is busy cycling, playing football with J and generally being full of holiday energy ( we undergo a total role reversal when on our holidays..T is up and about and full of beans and I am constantly sleeping and lacking in energy..a different way to recharge the batteries I guess?!)
Anyway, my emotional confusion aside, here is the other subjetc of the day... you may not know this but hideous things are happening in the south Gulf and these are not connected to any invading armies..I ask that you read the following and go to www.ifaw.co.uk and register your support for their annual campaign againt seal hunting. Canada continues to beat seal pups to death or skin them alive..not the calm, serene sight that should meet one when visiting the ice floes but one of death, destruction and mankinds pure greed..
This is an issue of which I have been passionate about for many years...it makes difficult reading...but please do not log off now...we need your help...

"IFAW monitors observing a sealing vessel hunting harp seal pups on the opening day of the Gulf seal hunt witnessed the cruelty of seals being shot in loose ice.
The sealing vessel had to search out small pans of ice to find a few lone seals. Sealers fired at seals on slushy, moving ice. Seals were seen in agony after being shot at and injured, but not instantly killed. One seal was hauled alive onto the deck of the boat with a steel hook before finally being beaten to death.
Tell the world in your own words why such cruelty to animals is wrong!
The lack of ice in the Southern Gulf has led to a mortality rate for baby seals estimated to exceed 90%, yet sealers continued to wipe out the last remaining survivours. They can do this because, despite the tragic effect of global warming on seal breeding habitat, the Canadian government has given sealers permission to kill 270,000 seals.
Visit www.ifaw.org/eu/sealhunt today to read the latest diaries from IFAW monitors on the scene of the hunt. See the latest footage from the scene of the hunt and listen to IFAW monitors describe in their own words the cruelty they are documenting firsthand.
It takes just a few seconds to add your comments and personal profile to our global community. Find out what others from around the world are saying about this ongoing tragedy for seals."

Thankyou for your patience and for your support..
With much love, peace and kindness from
Joanna and her 3 boys xxxxxx