Limbo

Posted on Fri 29 September 2006 at 03:40

The last few weeks have been really odd.  We gave up the tenancy on our rented house on the 8th September and then the Burgess roadshow went into action.  We have covered most of Scotland and England in 3 weeks. But when we left the house, we had no jobs, no home, no furniture, no car, no motorbike and no visa.  In retrospect it is one of the most foolish things I have ever done in my life as there was no cast iron guarantee we would be issued with a visa.  We decided if the worst came to the worst, we would take our gap year (bearing in mind we have 3 adult sons, that may be a little late - but hey, better late than never), then start again in this country when we came back.  Thankfully we now have the visa but not quite as quickly as we anticipated.  This has meant a delay in flying out as we had intended to go today (Thursday 28th Sept) and now go next Monday.  Bit of a pain really as we were originally  flying with a baggage allowance of 23kg each and it is now 20kg.  We left home with 65kg and somehow it has climbed to 78kg!  Ahh well, just pay up and get going!

Really looking forward to starting work - how strange will that be? The same job but half-way round the world or nothing at all similar?  I will miss my ex-colleagues though as most of the time I enjoyed my job - I'm a mental health nurse.  If you're reading this Ben, Sharron, Karon, Polly Jez, Graham and all - I hope you are soooo jealous!  And miss me loads...

The thing is,  I want to be on that plane now!  We seem to have been dragging round the country for weeks and I just want an end to to it.  I want my arse firmly on that plane seat and to be starting into the in-flight booze as we speak!  When the moment comes I will probably end up bubbling and crying but I want it to happen now! Now, now now!

Before I forget,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHONA !

Enough!,

Karen B