We are nearly there. At work I have finished the process of exhumation of the skeletons in my closet so that my replacement can see just how hard he is going to work from the outset. It will give him a great opportunity to show everyone just how good he is and can blame everything on me. The MoD are being very kind putting the whole departments weight into trying to make my walking out of the door as emotionally easy as possible by generating even more nuga...

The house is now finished (well nearly) and we have tenants in already. It is great that it is let, but was also rather sad to finish it one day and hand over the keys the next. We very quickly realised that winging was not the way ahead as it is not as if the next few months won't be fun. We are now going through the joys of getting our Notting Hill house ready to hand back to the army, which is always more difficult than it ought to be. I am also off to h...

The travels are yet to start, but the house is nearly complete. This is good; without it we would be going nowhere!