Sadly not to come back to the canals, but the next time it will be – that’ll be in just over 13 months time now. So the countdown is on, and there’s a lot to do in the meantime.
We’re flying from Auckland in the early hours of Wednesday 7 March and will be there until Tuesday 27 March, so a whistle stop tour catching up with my family, which includes a weekend at Northmoor House in Devon for my mum’s 79th birthday.
We had a great time camping at Pouawa from 28 December to 10 January, despite some dodgy weather when everyone (or so it seemed!) except Barry and I returned to town because we had an approaching cyclone! During the two weeks of living next to the sea Barry and I continued to work as normal, and early one morning as I drove to the maternity unit in town, along the road which hugs the coast-line, I was blessed with a spectacular sunrise …
Awesome, it made getting up at 0530hrs well worthwhile!
Not much else to report really, it’s just heads down, work our little socks off to earn as much money as possible, pay off debts, de-clutter our (far too many!) belongings, get the house ready to sell by September and save to buy a lovely narrowboat in the spring of 2013. I’m worn out just thinking about it, but it’s also very exciting to think I’ll be coming back to England to spend time with my family again, I miss them heaps.
If you need a boat for a little watery fix you only have to ask....
ReplyDeleteWe may just do that Captain! we'll be travelling from Worcester to Malpas in Cheshire and back, so on one of the journeys we could possibly catch up depending on your availability! Would be awesome. x
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