[Ulpian]

I hope you are right, though I'm still not convinced.

I thought the timing of her visit was not "strange", but convenient:-

A. Because Mick would be in the UK and gallantly offered to escort her, given her fear of flying.

B. Because Mick has just opened a new restaurant and, knowing Christine's love of cookery, he wanted her to see it.

C. Because if she wanted to see the others then rehearsal time would mean they'd all be together then and she could kill four birds with one stone.

D. It has been exceptionally cold and snowy in England for the last couple of months, probably the coldest and snowiest it has been in a long time (maybe even since she moved back) and Mick thought a trip to some warmth would do her good. I think he said as much in one of the interviews.

E. The deaths of both Bobs has made her want to see Mick and John in person particularly, reminder as those events were of the passage of time.