A Busy Weekend

Katy and Jim's chest

Jim, Julian, Glenn and Katy

Jennifer and Kim

Roy telling Adrian a dirty joke

Kodl and Min trying to avoid the camera

David, Gaile and Andrew

Gary, me (don't know what I'm doing!), Kodl and Roy

Another attempt at getting a decent picture of me and Nugs!

Henry and Jo

Johnny looking very dapper

Tammy and Alex

Graham

Nicky, Sarah, me, Carolyn, Lynne

It's been pretty much non stop socialising since my last entry. Andrew was out with his work colleagues on Friday night, whilst Nugs, Johnny and I had a lovely supper and made short work of a nice bottle of Moet. On Saturday morning, it was an early start to get Anna to riding, leaving Andrew in bed with some paracetamol waiting for the purchaser of my car to arrive. I'm very sad about my car - I had finally managed to eke a decent car out of Andrew, and now I've got to get rid of it. I think it is years before I'm going to be the proud owner of a convertible again. Might put a picture of my car on sometime!




On Saturday eening we met up with lots of friends at The Smugglers in Milford and it was great to see so many people turned out to see us off. I'll put the photos on tomorrow, as I'm doing this entry on Andrew's computer, but we had a great time. I still don't feel sad, as I don't think my head really knows that I'm going....I'm not sure when it is going to hit me properly, but it felt like a great night out with our friends, rather than the last time we will see some of them for ages. And I'm sure it's better like that.


Sunday was a very lazy day - we pottered about, sorted out the children, then at 4pm went over to Caroline and Garry's for a late lunch. Anna was already there with Gigi having had a sleep over, and George went off to play with Piers. George and Anna have known Piers and Gigi since they were born, and there is only a month between their ages, so it was sad to say goodbye. However, Garry as usual cooked an excellent meal, and I am hopeful that Caroline will pop in to see me every now and again, as she works for BA and comes to Sydney about once a year.

So, in exactly one week, we will be sitting on an aeroplane waiting to take off to a new life in Australia. How weird is that? The children still seem to be very together about it - Anna said yesterday that she couldn't really imagine living in Australia so she didn't know what she felt about it. I can relate to that. George said he was 'middling' between sad and excited - that he knew he would miss things about here, but 'it's going to be sooooo cool living in Australia'. That worried me a little bit...it's not going to be a non stop holiday - it will be real life, with all the same shit there is here - but with some sun. Lol. I wonder how he is going to feel when reality kicks in, and there is a bed time, and he has to go to school, and he's still not allowed to take food in his room etc etc....

What I know is that the thing I am going to miss is people. We've been really fortunate to have made some fabulous friends here, who have supported us through some very difficult times over the last few years. I know I am good at meeting people, but making the sort of deeper friendships we have here is different. But I am also a great believer in the fact that that sort of enduring friendship will survive the distance. Everyone is only a phone call, or web call away - or even a text. I can still shout at Nugs over the web whilst playing solitaire showdown, and I can still argue with my mum over the phone...somethings never change....







PS Does anyone know how I can put captions in for the pictures - or even have them dispersed amongst the text instead of in a big pile at the beginning?