Packing frantically and getting all the last minute things done. What a mission. We move our pile of stuff up to Manchester tonight. Been too excited to sleep, so we are in zombie mode. Had a great evening out with our friends from V’s work on Thursday – thanks for the great biking Sam and Chris, maybe we’ll see you next year !  Shifnal’s been good to us being so close to Wales.. but time to bring on the world (well half of it). [more coming – got to run to fetch the rental van]

–Update – So long Shifnal.  Said goodbye to all the lovely people at MMB and after sitting on the M6 in Friday afternoon traffic managed to successfully move all our bits into a corner of J&S’s garage. Sim had to return the van this morning (What a rubbish no one way rental policy Enterprise has) and after all the hard work finally collapsed into a coma in the afternoon sun in J&S’s back garden. -V-