Good morning everybody and welcome to Bangkok. Remind me next time I want to go away that 20 hours is more than anyone really needs to spend travelling anywhere! Just kidding... (I think) Hopefully my Mum and Dad will have spread the word that I made it safely by now so this won't come as a surprise to many of you, but for those of you who didn't know, I made it safely! The journey was not so great from the start. We were over half an hour late taking off from ...

Six days to go and I'm in a cabin in the woods. My family and I are currently in Centerparcs in Elveden Forest enjoying the snowy weather and my last week in the UK. Work is over and done with (I miss you guys!) and I've done the Sheffield goodbyes and the Norfolk goodbyes. Not long to go now. Anyway, I'm mainly here today to organise my life and work out what on earth I still need to do. Top of the list is obviously packing. The majority of the rest of the list...

Hello everyone and welcome. I'm (still) here in Peterborough (for now) and it's T minus 17 days until lift off. Oh my goodness how did we get here? Feeling excited and terrified and vaguely panicked in fairly equal measures at the moment, and time is passing both ridiculously quickly and incredibly slowly. Still, I'm no where near ready to go yet. Here today mostly for the setting up of this thing, being as I don't really have anything to say yet. But it giv...