All at once, Xmas is here again, and a reflectful time for us with it being twelve months since Sam died.
However, we have had to get on, and are at the point where there is not much more to do, but pay some balances of things already booked, and tidy up some last details. I have to do the last minute stuff in the New Year, like the travel plans on the Foreign Affairs website, and have a "practice pack". We do not have a good past history of packing just what we need, but this time are determined to try and be good. To be away for over three months, and include two different cruises, and think about what we might need for Japanese / English / Scottish / Welsh / Norwegian / Icelandic / French and Belgian spring & early summer weather, and allow for space to bring stuff back, it's not easy!!!
The other thing we have to do is get the house in order, and make sure the garden will cope. As our block is 99% garden (we have no lawn), it is fairly self-sufficient, and recent good rains won't have harmed it's chances of survival. It's no use asking anyone else to water for us, because nobody ever does it the same way you do yourself. Anyway, plants will be shutting down for the cooler weather, so it will just have to be OK, and if we lose things, then so be it.
So, once we get past Xmas and New Years Eve and all the crap that involves, (bah humbug!!!), it will be all stops out and only just over two months before we go. Won't actually believe it 'til we're on the plane.
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