It's over... Is it for the last time?

We don't know yet. They're sat in "the house" making a decision right now.

They arrived on Wednesday (when I had 5 lessons and a break duty) and are still here now. I had 4 lessons today. They didn't bless me with their presense in any of my lessons despite my having stayed at school until gone 7pm every night to get everything ready. That'll teach me for working too hard!

Now I can relax I hope. :)

I'll be out of the cave tomorrow.

I've been in it since Wednesday last week when we received a phone call. HMI are here. I'm knackered and went the last 24 hours without food! Tut tut!

you know...

If it’s really love you’d follow it forever
Would you wander for me?
Even though you think I’m lost and you know better
Would you wander for me?

Cause wandering is more than filling footprints right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines if just to find me?

Letting go of anything that grounds us
Would you wander for me?
Even though there’s darkness all around us
Would you wander for me?
Cause I’ve wandered for you

Wandering is more than filling footprints right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines if just to find me?
When you see that I have gone to the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you, would you wander for me?

It doesn’t matter where we are, we can be our northern star
Far above the earth and weather together

Cause wandering is more than filling footprints right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines if just to find me?
When you see that I have gone to the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you, would you wander for me?

If it’s really love you’d follow it forever
Would you wander for me?

:( its on E-bay

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The Plan

Leave Birmingham 1:20pm
Sat, Dec 23
Arrives in Dubai 12:15am
Sun, Dec 24
We stay in Arabian Courtyard Bur Dubai
Dubai. Check-in Sat 23 December 2006 Checkout Thu 28 December 2006


Departs Dubai: 9:35am
Thu, Dec 28
Arrives in Perth Australia 12:10am
Fri, Dec 29
We Stay in the Crowne Plaza Perth
54 TERRACE RD, Perth
Check in: Thu 28 Dec 2006 Departure date: Tue 2 Jan 2007


Depart Perth: : 12:20pm
Tue, Jan 2:
Arrive Alice Springs: 4:35pm
We stay in the Alice Springs Plaza Hotel for one night.
Wednesday Jan 3 we leave at 05:15 for the 6 Day Alice Springs to Adelaide Safari.
Monday Jan 8. Arrive in Adelaide.
Not booked accommodation yet. 
Wednesday Jan 10 Pick up hire car to do the Great Ocean road to Melbourne

Saturday Jan 13 Return Hire car to Melbourne Holiday Autos.
Stay in Melbourne long enough to do Neighbours set and Neighbours night at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow.

We then have an Autralian Greyhound pass to take us as far as Sydney. We can visit Canberra on the way if we want but we can go where we like and take as long as we like. We do need to be in Sydney before Jan 22nd
08:00 am Jan 22nd We begin our Wave Surf tour. We learn to surf over four days travelling between Sydney and Byron Bay. It includes all accommodation and tuition etc.
Arrive Byron Bay
Jan 26th
Accommodation 3 nights in The Arts Factory Backpackers Hostel. With a choice of accommodation including TeePees, Aborininal Gunyas Pentagons, Dorms, Cubes, Wagons and Island Retreats!
We’ll be leaving Byron Bay on Jan 29th and getting back on the Grey hound bus to Brisbane and our new life!!

Woo Hoo

Crisis!

It came in a shiny new box, it lasts for 4 years and it controls the minds of my parents. It sits in the living room taking up a full 54" of space against a wall and is a thin as a short paperback novel. Recently it required an upgraded box to be attached to it which cost a further £300. This was so that the messages it transmits can be made much more crystal clear - especially when showing things "outside".

It commands the attention of my parents for at least 5 hours a day, sometimes more. It shows them stories; mostly about crime, aliens or red boxes with numbers in them.

This evening it was singing songs and asking someone to leave when world war three broke out in the living room.

Picture the scene. I have come to accept that the large, paperback thin, monstrosity takes over the will power of my parents. I am sitting through yet another story; this time about young people who want a million pounds to work for someone who tells them they're rubbish most of the time. The story has reached a climax; someone must leave and face the fact that the million pounds will never be theirs. Outside the grey clouds are rolling ominously across the sky but no one could have for seen the events which followed.

A small message appeared on the enormous entity in the corner of the room:

"Warning there is clash in recordings.
Casualty - recording
The Far West - start recording at 9:20.
You must select one of these stories and cancel the recording."

Questions are raised. Which is more important? Why is this message obscuring the view of the tension provided by the stupid story? Then it happens.... It all goes black.

"Oh well that's it... That was ALL I wanted to see.."
"K why did you go pressing buttons?"
"I didn't!"
"Well now I've missed it... I just wanted to see that bit. It was the only bit I wanted to see!"

Screaming, shouting, cursing and then silence..

"Don’t give me the silent treatment X I didn't do anything!"


I left the room in tears... of laughter. Seriously, is the X factor, Casualty and The Far West so important to our lives that we need to almost kill each other when the TV accidentally gets switched off!??

Their PERSPECTIVE must have been obscured by the enormous television screen!

Ad sense

I've decided to be silly, to advertise and see what happens.
Google give out the code and you get paid everytime someone clicks on the advert. Google is supposed to choose adverts which link to the content of your site. Why is it then that it keeps bringing up ads about natural disasters???! LMAO!

What does that suggest??

2 weeks in - They make a bid for freedom!

They've been in for 2 weeks. Getting alittle fed up and crying at the door. So, they were let out yesterday. Amusingly the first thing Stan did was jump up onto the roof of the house. They were so happy to be running around, climbing trees. I am sure they had a great time!

Hooray no more smelly cat litter!!! Woo Hoo!

It's rolling quickly

Like a fast moving train it's gone really quickly. The week started and ended like a blinking light bulb. Only 6.5 more blinks to go...
Scary, sad, worrying etc.

We've accepted an offer on the house and it's really sad. It's really hard. Sometimes I sit and wonder what on earth I'm doing. I had a lovely home, a great job, my family close by and my best mate 2 minutes away. That's what number 14 represents and it's very hard when someone stands in your kitchen and says "I only bought it on Friday and I'm already thinking nets". You remember the first few weeks that you spent in your new home excited about the prospect of finally owning your own house as you removed the revolting nets from the window and made the house your own.

When they say of course we'll rip out this carpet and you remember that not even 12 months ago you'd managed to save £5oo to pay for it. When they walk around your home and cheerfully point out that you haven't yet removed that picture or that ornament.
It's still my home and I have to let go.

It represents so much more than bricks and mortar and it's not easy. I want it to go through quickly because the quicker the knife falls the sooner it will all be over. Sooner I have to let go.

Number 14 will be the dream for a new young couple and they’ll fill it with their hopes and ideals. It will hold as many wonderful memories for them as it has done for me. It’s a wonderful home with a brilliant spirit. I am really happy and excited for them and I understand.

If you're reading this you might think that I regret what's happening. I don't. I can't wait. Part of me wishes that I could take my best mate, my cats, my job, my home and everything I love about England with me in 6 1/2 weeks, but I can't, and I guess if I could then it would kind of defeat the object. We'll have a great adventure and when we get back we can buy a new house, a new bubble to feel safe, secure and happy in. Two minutes from my best friend's house and down the road from my family. I can pick up where I left off and I'll have had a new enriching experience to remember for the rest of my life.

Believe me tying me to a chair and not letting me go sounds tempting some times but nothing amazing ever comes easy...