The 4 Packing Cubes I ordered from Luggage Gear arrived today.Together with the toiletry bag and the eye mask for the plane.The Packing Cubes are fantastic . Am going to get 4 more.Bought the light raincoat today at Fountain Gate and the padlock for my bus bag, plus a large zipped foldaway bag for extras on the bus. Folds away to nothing.Also found a small cooler bag for keeping the fruit and lunch in on the bus.THEN, I went to APPLE, saw Hannah and bought a keyb...

Started work on the blue spare room puttying up ALL those nail holes!How on earth did we put that many holes in one room?Anyway, back from tea with Mum and Dad and sanded half of them back and then decided to stop.Bought undercoat and a cream paint for the room and will also use it in the passage.Sunday tomorrow ... Should be able to get stuck into it..

Spoke to Michelle tonight and have told her that I am emailing the blog.HahaI hope it will start to get interesting about 12.05am on the 25th August....TAKE OFF TIME!Jenna....appreciate you making sure that your Mum is up to scratch by then!

Adjusted 3 white t-shirts for the trip. Just took up at the shoulders a bit.While I was at it...I did the 2 lime green ones as well for work.Sewing machine working well.My Noise Cancelling Headphones arrived today at work...much excitement as both Simone and I raced out to get the parcel from Reception.I had ordered them last Friday on the Net.Then we sat and tried them out.Beautiful sound listening to music and they cancel out 90%25 of background noise so I am r...

I went shopping tonight after work and bought my suitcase! Exactly the right size for the bus tour. 76cm x 46cm x 25cm!What was I worried about?Then, because I was worried about the size of my carry on bag for the bus, I bought one exactly the right size for that too. And it has a pocket for the IPad on the bus.AND, they are colour coordinated!(Good hey, Mum?)Charcoal on the outside and grey inside.So now that I am getting right into this, I think I am going to p...