After some teething troubles the blog looks like it finally works. So we're about to upload all our blogs from the first week. We're writing them by hand and putting them online when we can...thanks for watching! Well we've made it!! We're on the road again this time for four months - scary and exciting! We were so keen to leave that we actually left Stephen's Mum and Dad's house 3 times - we've never been so disorganised before - but heck it's only a little tri...

Well, it's 3am and we really should be in bed but we're waiting for the tumble drier to finish and eating chocolate orange! Yep, that's right, we leave in 14 hours and we're still doing the washing. This was the bags this afternoon. They are even less packed now. Still, that's what those long airport queues are for! Guess it's time to switch the computer off, especially as none of you actually know the address for this blog yet - better sort that out before we l...

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through our house...are piles of things we had promised ourselves we would pack by now! Yes, a week to go and we are nowhere near ready - which will come as no surprise to those of you who know us well! We passed anxiety about a week ago, and now are just hoping that everything will be ready this time next week as by then we'll be in the air! And it's a long way back if we have forgotten something.