samshep

we go in 5 weeks to, you'll be fine!! Think of the adventure - its exciting!!

Thought i'd write a brief note to those of you that this may be a reality happening to you soon. I'm sat in my neighbours house writing this whilst the packers are in mine wrapping and packing. It has been a stressful few weeks to get to this as because i am anally organised we decluttered the whole house and sorted it all out for the packers - which I have to say they have totally appreciated. We have allocated certain rooms ie utility and bathrooms for things not to be packed and then in my kitchen i have been around it sticking post it notes on individual doors and drawers with either a NO or a PACK, made things as easy as poss for them. we also moved out to my mums yesterday so things could be piled up easy for them and will not be back in for a few days so they don't have to worry about leaving it for us to sleep in overnight. the cleaning stuff took longer than we thought, and is as clean as it could possibly be, house stinks of Jeyes. Packers are nice guys, polite and friendly and greatly appreciated that i'd left the kettle out and had some Yorkshire tea (and biscuits) for them. So far so good. It does feel a bit scary and I felt pysically sick this morning, not about the move just about the worry that something would go wrong with the packing. We will then move back in to a empty house wed for 5 weeks, we will be borrowing stuff from friends etc. Didn't want to be too long in Oz without our stuff so thought it would be easier this end with nothing - then fly to Brisbane 2nd April for our new life - eeeeek. Not looking forward to the goodbyes!! Will update you later on progress. sam:cool:

Our stuff is going 27/28th Feb but we don't actually fly till April 2nd, can do without it this end as can beg and borrow from friends and relatives, but can't do without it once our temp acc is over in oz at end of april.

I think I did list skills etc, venepuncture but not obvious ones like record keeping. A normal CV I think I submitted, I do have a copy of my CV if you wish me to e-mail it to you. I'm a nurse and midwife and have been through the process and came out the other side, flying out 2nd April!! PM your e-mail address if you would like to keep in touch and help you any way I can, by the way, we're off to Brisbane. Sam