Ship ahoy

The good news is that the shipping company are coming next Tuesday to take away all our stuff and start it on its 12,000 mile sea journey. More good news is that we've almost finished packing. We only have the cupboards in the spare room to pack and the kitchen to sort.

The bad news is that the shipping documentation specifies that we have to provide a detailed inventory of what each box we've packed contains. I do wish we'd been told that sooner. It seems though that our scribbled contents descriptions on the outside of the boxes, all drawn up into a nice list with all the boxes numbered should suffice. It looks like Friday evening now will be spent in our storage unit lugging boxes around, numbering them, and stacking them up again. Only for them to be unstacked and loaded into a lorry on Tuesday. I guess our (one-day) belated anniversary meal will have to wait until after we've finished that on Friday now.

It's tonight that Katie from Sheffield, the NZ recruitment agency, is calling me for an interview. I really do need to do some prep on the company and also prepare some answers for competency-based interview questions. Hopefully I'll get out of here on time tonight.

Talking of jobs, there have been some minor developments regarding Joanne's deployment/relocation thing. It seems she's too expensive to be moved to Singapore, to be employed by them. However, there's still a chance that her current role could be moved over there and then re-charged to the London office. That way Singapore don't pick up the tab for her and she continues doing what she's doing now. The discussion has been passed up a level to be discussed. They're running out of time to get this sorted, really though.

Oh, I found out today that Mt. Hutt's ski season is scheduled to begin on Saturday.

No news on the flat sale as yet.