Movers arrived this morning and 42 boxes of our worldly goods were sent off to Uh-merica, painter is finishing off the last of the bits that needed touching up. Meetings with solicitors and accountants on Thursday. Its like this is actually happening....

I am still however, remembering things in the middle of the night, like: must remember to cancel the milkman, get spare keys cut for neighbours and make sure everyone has current e-mail addresses etc.

Exciting, scary, happy and sad all rolled into one. But I have discovered that the quickest way to make friends in this part of the world is to tell people you're leaving. The instructor at my water workout class asked me if today was my last class loud enough for it to be heard by others and suddenly I felt like I was surrounded by people wanting to be my friend. Where was I going? Was it permanent? How long had I lived here? etc. Really well and truly bizarre. I actually feel like I might miss some of these strange people who spent so much time and energy trying to ignore me.

To new beginnings.....