More steps

Tentatively, it's all coming together. The Work Permit applications are in; and tomorrow, Zoë has to go for her medical, so we know that everything has been received and is being processed. The medical will lengthen the process a little, but we're still on course.

We've started to wind things up; tomorrow, I will spend the day at home making all manner of phone calls, and sending emails galore to try to unentangle us from our UK lives, and try to put some small things in place at the other end. On that note, I'm still no nearer to a work-related trip to Canada; I spent the whole of last week in the company of Canadians, and enjoyed it thoroughly; I would be helpful to them over there, and it would benefit me as well, but there is politics involved, and it's an Italian company; I'm saying no more.

And the big news is - we may have sold the house. No more details at this stage; it's way too early, but we're quietly confident. I got the news standing outside the Star Bar in Edinburgh - one of our old haunts, revisited for old time's sake wth University friends. I had a blast (and Aberdeen beat Hibs, which practically never happens), and as I tick things off my list ("things I must do before leaving the country"), I realise that I'm more and more ready.

Come on, let's go...