[Ms_Fi]

We're not really leaving the family, we're going to join the inlaws (OH is Australian). I love my mum dearly but I can't live near her as she drives me nuts! I've spent the best part of 33 years trying to be perfect for her but I'll never be that - I'm a flawed woman with secrets, a past, tats and piercings (not the ideal daughter my mum wants me to be).

My dad - well, what can I say about my dad. He's a star, an absolute star and I'm dreading saying goodbye to him at the airport as I know I won't ever see him alive again. He's not in the best of health and won't fly so unless I come back to England we won't ever be in the same country again :(

I've got 3 children and the move is as much for them as it is for me. I truly believe they'll have a better chance and a better future in Australia than they would in the UK.

I have a brother and a sister and I'm not particularly close to either of them. I live in the same town as my brother but I rarely see him and I only see my sister when she comes up from Devon to visit my parents.

I'm a parent first and a daughter/sister second so my priority has to be to the children.