Big Day Today

So, Today we fly out! We've managed to sort all our stuff out on time and get everything we need and somehow manage to pack everything so it fits in our huge baggage allowance although when you're taking your life with you its not so huge.

We're off after church this morning, we're sorry if we didn't ever get round to saying goodbye to you personally, if you're offended by this then you'll just have to head to zambia to visit! (the offfer also extends to anyone as long as you let us know!)

Since last blog, Rich had his last day at school, which was a weird day, everyone was saying have a happy Christmas while to rich it was have a nice time in africa, they got me a stoke city shirt with crouch 25 on the back because they all call him crouch even the pupils tho not generally pupils don't call rich that to his face.

Our house is now clean and empty, something that definately wasn't the case when we wrote our last blog, Thats to our wonderful family which includes Henry we managed to mainly clear the house out on the 22nd and then we spend a few days after christmas doing a final clean and final move. It was a very traditional affair, with Men in charge of lifting things and Women in charge of making it clean.

Christmas was great, having a few days to have a break was just what we needed although we could have done with a few more days, it was great to see all the family before we go being in both Cornelius family and Miles family was really great and we know that we are very blessed/ lucky/ what ever word you want to use to  have such great families who support us in what we're doing and are just great fun to be with.

Any way that'll do for now, we've got to leave at 8:30 so we can meet corneliuses at Rich's Sisters house at 9 and pack both cars then get breakfast then go to church then off to heathrow!

2 weeks to go

So, In 2 weeks time we will have been flying for 2 hours (as long as everything is to time) so i guess we'll be over Southern France, as long as thats on the flightpath which i have no idea about but i'll keep you updated in 2 weeks!

So in the last few weeks heaps of stuff has happened. We've sold out car which was great as it was very easy Simon williams dad needed one so he's got our one now, last i heard it was all working fine so, hopefully that continues.

We've got new and not warped doors fitted which is good although probably more handy to our tenant who we've got and will move in to our house on the 4th of jan so 5 days after we fly off. Which is great timing which lets be honest shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows anything about Gods  timing! In slightly less ideal house news, the boiler guy came and issued out landlord certificate saying that it doesn't throw out any nasty carbon monoxide and it doesn't but, it does have a leak so we need a new heat exchanger which hopefully we're getting installed on Tuesday, which is not too bad but could do without that costign £300 just now but, hey these things happen.

We've started to pack, we've 2 bags packed at 20ish kg's so we've only another 4 bags to go.... plus a few as hand luggage. Next saturday is the day we pack up our house which will be sad, but it'll be good to get it packed up and sorted a week before we head off and packed away before christmas.