Still in England...

It's already been 5 weeks since we left the ship. Right now, we're in Hertfordshire trying to empty our loft of all those terribly important things we couldn't possible throw away, but have managed without quite nicely for the last 8 years (makes sense?). A lady has made an offer on our house in Harpenden (half an hour to the north of London), and we hope to get the contract for sale exchanged in the next 3 weeks. We have made an offer on a house in Sherborne, Dorset (2 hours to the west of London), near my parents and Sally's parents. Noah has a place in a good school in Dorset, but we're still waiting to hear which school the girls will be going to. Social Services have made contact about Libby's adoption, and we will be meeting our social worker soon. I've been working for a guy making inflatable operating room tables (yeah, you heard) for horses, and stone splitting machinery, like this:

I'm doing electrical work making up the air handlers for the inflatable tables, and cutting steel, tapping, grinding etc to make the big yellow steel frames for the stone splitters. And the boss has just bought an old Land Rover, so I get to tinker with that too. But my heart's desire is to continue working for a ministry of one kind or another - such as Mercy Ships in the UK, perhaps in some kind of fundraising or marketing role in the South West of England. We've also spent a lot of time driving around, catching up with family, friends and supporters. In the meantime, I've not been updating this blog - you'd probably noticed - and don't have many plans to update it much in future. I'll put some photos of our new house on it eventually, and the kids occasionally. Bye for now. Olly out.