and how the night goes on

see how easily we lose the plot and get drunk. a good night was had by all. we will have to have another one to say goodbye. we will miss everyone muchness but you can all come and visit!!!!!!

the evils of drink

my family have corrupted my son!(nothing to do with me of course!) here we are in our local pub 'the bells' its about 1am and my son and lil bro kenny are minced, they have just treated the entire bar of their own version of elvis dancing. it was the funniest thing i have seen in a long time.

saturday night out in aberdeen

me and my man on saturday night, it was a mix of my lil bro georges 18th, my lil bro greg visiting from jersey and just an excuse for a night out!!!!

now i am excited!!!!

well now i have just finished a 12.5 hour night shift and i cant bloody sleep! am so excited i could pee!!!!!!!!!!! i am so happy that i cant think straight!!! there is so much to do, get the family ready! fight with murrae as to which toys are worth paying to bring across the other side of the world, bribe stevi into leaving her rubbish clothes here and getting new ones in oz, persuading michael that he can buy just as good power tools in oz as he has here and mikey, well, just getting him on the plane will be a miracle, hes in the teenage world where nothing is more important than members of the opposite sex, football and sky tv!!! never mind that we have to sell and empty the flat, book flights and find somewhere to live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my god i am freaking myself out here, maybe its better if i just go to bed and not think about it for a couple of hours!!!!!!!!!

this is it!!!! hold on to your hat nat we're coming to australia

well this is it folks, we officially received our visas today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant believe it!!!!!!!!!!!! we are definately going to australia!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all i need to do now is sell my flat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so all you friends and family start praying or whatever you do that someone comes along and snaps it up soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is fab, if nat can do it then i can!!! ok she had to talk me through it!!!! this is a pic of the same night! 3 of my best friends, nat of course off to paradise, rhona off to essex with the love of her life and jill my 'chummy', after i go she will be all alone!! sorry chummy, start saving now!!!

Ssh, yer didn't see me, I wasn' ere!

Have hi-jacked 'er website thingy!

Don't we look drunk?

Nat x

scary stuff

well everyone else is doing it so i thought what the hell!!! this is for all my friends and family so that we can keep them up to speed on our 'Big Adventure'. currently we are anxiously awaiting verification of our visas for oz. my nursing registration has been finalized and last communications from the migration agent was visas 'pending registration'!! guess this is it then folks! the flat has been on the market for a week and we have has a good offer. i will be phoning the solicitor today for her advice. oh my god we could be homeless soon!!

the on going saga of us moving lock stock and barrel to australia has been a long one! 18 years in fact! michael got the chance of moving abroad when he was 18, we were a two income no children family, but alas i was young and needed to be near my folks. over the years we spoke about it frequently but it never seemed to be the right time, kids were too young, we were too skint etc etc. however, years later i have my nursing qualification, the kids are the right age and one of my best friends deserted me to live in paradise!! its a bit like fate, we decided that this was it and lo and behold there appears an advertisement in the local paper for skilled workers to migrate to WA!!!! we apply, go for interview in glasgow, take copies of all our cv's, qualifications etc and then we get an email to say that all paper work has been lost! 1st instance of lots of tears from me!! now this hasnt been easy for us, its been dragging on forever and with plenty of tears from me. its been hard work and very stressful collating all paper work, getting medicals and chest x-rays etc, while trying to work fulltime and look after the family, but we think that we are finally getting there.

so there thats our saga! i will update this as and when things change!!!