Home thoughts from abroad.

Yesterday I was pretty much in mourning and resigned to that fact that Scotland would be voting 'Yes' to Independence today.I have lots of Scottish friends and many of them were for Independence and it seemed to me, observing across the miles, that the 'Aye's' had it. I was pretty miserable yesterday to say the least and dreaded today's result.I followed every count today as they came in, from first to last and got so engrossed that I forgot to give Dulcie her lunchtime pills! ( Bad Carer!)It soon became clear that the 'Nays' were winning but I was surprised that I did not feel as relieved as I was heart broken yesterday.I cannot deny that it was the result I had hoped for but I have some small idea of how those people who voted 'Yes' are feeling now.I take no pleasure in the result. Nearly half of the people in Scotland are disappointed today. There were promises made in the final days as the 'No' campaign went into panic mode as they had seriously underestimated the mood in Scotland. Those promises better be kept or I will be moving to Scotland and next time voting 'Yes' myself!Here I am living on the other side of the World but it is only in the last few weeks that I have realised how much I love my country and I don't mean England, I mean Great Britain.Yes, I am English but now more than ever I am proud to be British.Yesterday, the only thing that gave me some comfort was the fact that our soon to be independent neighbour Scotland might give 'Royaume-Uni' 'douze points' in the Eurovision Song Contest....it was my silver-lining.Today I don't care about Eurovision I only care about the disappointed half of our Scottish family and hope we can make them happy again.Things are going to have to change but I hope we can change them and still stand together.