6 days to go!

We started packing our storage unit today - three trips in the car have made little impression on the space in the shed.


The removals truck will do the big stuff on Tuesday.

It's just one week until we fly out to Dar es Salaam.  We have an empty shed and a house full of furniture and boxes - we just need to reverse that!
We are putting stuff in cases too - so far we are about 10kg over our limit.  We have until Thursday to remedy that.
We have our passports back with the Tanzania entry visas all present and correct.  My computer hard drive is chock full of (hopefully) useful resources.  I have bought a pocket size digital camera to record our adventure and display on this blog.
We are nearly ready to go I think - what have we forgotten?


7 days to go. 

Suddenly it is 'next month' that we are leaving and the farewell functions are starting.  It seems we have been 'going' for so long!  Yesterday a teacher at my school asked me, when I was collecting some packing boxes, was I back already!
It is time to get serious about what to take and what to store and what to put in the rubbish skip.  I have to cut down on the first two and increase the last.
I've been home now, getting organised, for 4 weeks and have piles of things in every room waiting to be sorted.  The lovely autumn sunshine keeps drawing me outside but luckily I have an enforcer, my friend Amelia, who comes around and keeps me on track.  Also it's winter now so maybe it will be too cold and wet to go outside!  Now I'll just go and see what is happening in the garden....


31 days to go.