Briefly:
Saturday/Sunday - thank goodness for mum (window cleaner) and Philip (gardener). Had lovely picnic out and the fair on Turnham Green with Jill, Zac-man and Squishy, followed by a meal out with mum and Philip at Yupa's Thai which was great. Yet more tears when said goodbye to them on Sunday - I think you're getting the drift of how I operate.
Monday- bed at 3am having just spent last 30 mins with the TV trying to get it into the crate (I don't recommend doing this, at this time, when this tired by the way).
Tuesday - up after 3 hours sleep to finish taping up the final few boxes. Storage men arrived at 7am and took everything except the sofa which wouldn't fit into the 35sqft container 'cause apparently we have too much stuff. Oh well!
Tuesday - cleaning. And somehow I managed to get on my list of 'to dos' the oven, kitchen and bathroom - and Sean got charity shop runs. hmmmmm.
Wednesday - check-out. So everything seems ok (except pink stain from rug on carpet - oops). And then a lovely final afternoon with Jill, Glen, Zac and Scarlett with the world's best roast dinner. More tears (although I did pretty well at composing myself eh Jillo?). And then a rather hairy race to Gatwick in Glen's car with an accident on M25 and detour around Staines - only to of course get through passport control to find out flight was delayed by one hour - typical.
Another tear filled phone call to mum to say final goodbye and we were on the plane and on our way.
The Big Trip starts here.
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