Crazy times

I'll skip the bit I usually put on posts these days, apologising for the lack of posts and promising future posts......it's getting really dull, but then again, so is the lack of posts.

So, here is a post....With info and everything and some photos - how exciting.

Firstly, it is a big congratulations to myself for finally getting a full time permanent job - it's in the school I am currently in and they have very kindly started my contract immediately which means I get paid for some of the summer twice (I suppose if you move from one job to the next and are owed holidays then you get paid for them). So that's also allowed us to book a holiday - we are off to a secret location in Portugal. So secret in fact that we've just found out our good friends Ewen and Andrea, with our Godchildren, will be there at the same time.

Secondly, we are in the middle of a heatwave here in Scotland - this makes a big chncge from the usual crimewave. This week people have been burning to a crisp, bursting open fire hydrants, dying in ridiculous accidents, drinking all day and generally getting nothing done. Some girls in my school complained that it was too warm to do PE - I asked them what the optimum temperature for PE is because they complain when it is mild, complain when it is cold and complain if it is dry. I should have copied the picture above from the BBC last week when it forecast a whole week of sun - i didn't because I was so sure it was a mistake.

Third thing, and this is a doozy, is that we are on the move again! Not to anywhere exotic unfortunately just further into Shawlands. Our landlord has had to move back from London which has kicked us out, the flat we'd like to move into can't have us move in until the 9th of June. But we have to be out of our current accomodation on the 2nd. Further confusing the matter, we are going to the Epsom Derby again this year, leaving on the 31st of May. So we are packing up our stuff and moving out on Wednesday the 30th. Flying to London, returning on the Sunday (3rd) and then we'll be homeless until the following Saturday. It's a wee bit like being back in NZ again.

Oh, and to top it all off - the people who are currently renting our flat are on the move too - but not until July so we can't even just seamlessly move back into our own flat. On the bright side, if our current tenants don't steal all our furniture, then it will be a good time to get in and get our stuff back.

What else is new? Hmmm, it's hard to pin point anything else in the middle of what we are dealing with at the moment but we did go to Paris a couple of weekends back for my Mum's 60th. We had a great time, my brother and his new squeeze came along and it was all in all a trip de magnifique or something like that.

So, that's that for now but we have quite an exciting few months coming up - in fact it's an exciting year. Definitely one that's worthy of regular blog updates......but I'm not promising anything.