Escape from Pirates!!

Maybe if we sit here long enough we'll see our sofa sail past...

Yeah!!!!  The cargo ship carrying all our worldly possessions is currently ambling around in the Tasman sea awaiting entry into Sydney Harbour, having apparently not been hijacked by Somali Pirates or decided to sink in the Indian ocean.  Just a short hop across to Auckland and then the customs to clear and we can have a change of clothes and some furniture again.  At least Tilly's birthday present is easy this year - we can just give her some of her old toys back!

Work going well for me (Dave), survived my first few weeks in charge of the wards and getting to grips with my dialysis teams.  Hannah's job hunting is gathering a bit of momentum and there's a few irons in the fire, but too early to tell if they'll come to anything yet.  Reuben and Tilly still great, both settling into life here really well and being generally wonderful (most of the time anyway).  All in all positive things to report all round, except that it is definitely winter here now and we've had to invest in new hot water bottles or Hannah was threatening to go to bed in thermals - what do they have against decent heating over here?