Bricks and mortar - or - planes, trains and automobiles

It looks like I'm going to be out of circulation for a little while. My house move is almost upon me. Of course I'm nowhere near ready, but I will be by the time Friday morning comes along. My parents are coming down to help and one of the lads at work is helping too. Sunday I'm going to Cardiff with a couple of the boys from work to shout for Reading in the Second Division Playoff Final. I'm flying to Düsseldorf Tuesday morning as I'm working in our German NOC in Duisburg for four days, then back at the weekend.

The following Monday I'm going to see Mark Knopfler at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the next morning it's another flight to Düsseldorf for four more days' work in Duisburg. I'm staying over that weekend though and taking the train down to stay with a couple of friends in Kaiserslautern for a few days' R & R and to see a couple Peter Maffay concerts in St. Goarshausen and Mannheim, and then I'm back home on the Wednesday from Frankfurt, thanks to our very helpful PA, Miriam. Which is actually very cool, because it means I don't have to pay for a flight to Germany for the shows.

So it's going to be a while before I get to settle in, but there'll be plenty of time for that when I get back. And plenty to do. There's quite a bit of decorating that needs doing. I want to replace the carpets too and I need to figure out how to put a kind of extra-wide baby gate between the kitchen and the living room so that the bunny stays in the kitchen during the day like she's supposed to. It's easy here; there's a proper door, but not in the new place. Oh well. Life is full of little challenges, domestic and otherwise.