18th Dec - the morning after the night before. Three weeks to the day until we head off to sunny Moscow.

A big thank you to those of you who were out for my leaving do last night, good times. It's snowing this morning which means the removal people aren't coming to take all of our stuff away to storage - tonnes of boxes everywhere..

So anyway, the blog is now up and running, we thought it best to make sure that there was at least one entry on it before we left the country so you would have something to look at (exciting as this is!) - future entries should be more interesting, honest!