Captains Log: Star Date T-1 day!!!! Wow! Only 24 hrs til I'm on that plane!!! All packed now and had a spare ten mins so I've uploaded some piccies from Friday night in Northampton, it was lovely to see the uni crew before I go, oh yeah and Jim, thanks for the last bout of resistance training, I think it will come in handy, my back pack feels alot heavier than the practice pack now all the toiletries are in there!! Also put some piccies on from the mighty...

Captains Log. Star date T-5 days... Did a practice pack last night... strutted round my house with my backpack on...did the stairs and some squats and all that to see how heavy it felt...weighed it too...on the bathroom scales! Its not toooo heavy! About a stone... lets see if I still don\'t think its \'that heavy\' when I\'m trudging round with it on my back for a year! Only 5 days left...wow! over and out xxx

Captains Log: Star date T-6 days... Only 6 days to go til I am off for a whole year! More importantly only 3 more working days left...a woo hoo! (Tom cant believe you have skanked your work email buddy so close to the finish line...I am very jealous knowing you are swanning around while I am sat in work!!) I am trying to organise myself to get everything ready to be packed and I'm hoping I wont forget too much stuff! Of course I have no doubt that I will f...