Helloooo Mrs Fingerscrossed!! We're all fab thank you very much, very excited about next weekend, but also having to say our goodbyes to friends and family which is really really hard - we had a big party on Saturday down here in Salisbury and friends/family came from all round the country - god did I blub!! :'(

Then we had a spanner put slightly in the works by our lovely next door neighbour - she has a massive house which she doesn't really need anymore (!!!) and has given us first refusal on it at a very very very good price - we thought seriously about buying it as an investment property/contingency plan should NZ not be all we want it to be, but have decided that we have to go with our original plan otherwise we will not be able to take advantage of the strong pound in the NZ property market and we will again just be working to pay a mortgage (at higher rates than here!!)

THEN to top it all today, we had our medicals.......which were absolutely fine (lots of breathing in during the waist measurement test!!)...but while I was, how shall I put this delicately, using the surgery's facilities (?!) I managed to drop my phone down the toilet!!!! Don't ask!! [smiley=icon_eek.gif] So now I don't have your tel numbers or address - please please please can you PM them?? Muchly thankyou!!

So yep we are all fine, but in some ways I would like to fast forward the next week and a bit through all the packing up of the house, the re-homing of the cats tomorrow (The hardest decision in all of this), the flight, and the getting through immigration with all our paperwork in our luggage whilst saying that we are only there for a holiday!! - in 2 weeks time we will be in AUckland - wowwee!

Talk soon,

Love to all

Maggie xx