And now the time is near... and so we face, the final curtain...!

9 days until the big departure and the nerves and excitement are at a high! The removers are in today to take all our worldly possessions, stick them in a metal container and send them 12,000 miles on a boat... Anxious? Us? Nnnnn... Yes!

The rest of our week is booked up with family and friend catch ups, shopping and packing... with the week ending with our leaving party on Friday. Really looking forward to catching up with everyone but also tinged with sadness that it will be the last time for a few years :(

On a lighter note, the cat deffo knows something up, he is eyeing up the boxes suspiciously and giving us the 'oh pffft are we moving again' look. Little does the poor fella know this move will be slightly bigger than the previous ones and rather than a 10 min trip in his cat box to the new house, he will have a weeks holiday in a Shropshire cattery followed by a 30 hour plane ride to New Zealand.
To lessen the blow there'll be a nice new fluffy doughnut bed, some juicy prawns and a massive jungle garden ready to welcome him, oh along with a big, chubby, narky, ginger cat called Uncle Charlie.

Relief that the car is sold and most other things we wanted to sell, last few bits to give away and charity shop this week then we just have the cases to pack.

Have a few items to get for the folks as per their shopping list - my mums stuff is the usual of clothes, my dads the usual of undies and Rennie tabs - some things you just can't let go of eh!

The last countdown in on! :~)