Leaving on a jet plane...

...but do have some idea of when I hope to be back again.

Anyway, today's my last day at work for nearly three weeks as me and the wife are off on holiday to China. Tomorrow we fly to Hong Kong then we head into China and make our way up to Beijing via lots of cool places like a Giant Panda Reserve, the Terracotta Army, the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City and, erm, lots of other equally-cool-but-currently-unmemorable places too.

I hope (but don't expect) that at some point on our travels I may be able to upload some photos, but don't hold your breath.

With any amount of luck you lovely people reading this will be able to click on the links which should have appeared above for the various attractions, but if not, just google them along with Wikipedia to see what I'm on about.

And then go "oooh" and "aahhhh" and "mwkfkjhs". Actually, scrap that last one, unless you're being sick.

A hierarchy of bloggers

Wow, who'd have thought it? OK, so after some comments about people being shifted up and down the list I've re-arranged the list of bloggers into alphabetical order. I realise the following may bug some people's sense of pedantry but "My bestest friend ever in the world" is above Martin as she's called Liz.

If anyone has a problem I suggest you take it up with the ombudsman...

More blogs added

At the request/suggestion(/harrassment) of those who will remain nameless I have added some new names to my list of friends who blog. You'll see on the list my wife, Verity, Liz Hall, Kirsty Caffull and Katie Allen have all been added to this esteemed company.

Now, I must confess I don't really know Katie that well but she was kind enough to leave a comment on my blog so I thought the favour was worth returning and extending.

Right, on with some work...

I don't follow trends, I set 'em...

I see the wife's started blogging now...

http://ifievergetroundtoit.blogspot.com/

Curses, already her post is better than my two efforts.

I did threaten to stop after 6 weeks. I may make it less than that. For the record though, I also had a rubbish commute today, just going the other way, out of London.

Oh the excitement.

And if anyone can help me to add video to the side in Google blogger (can't find it in the help section and it is needed - I wish to treat you all to a fine exhibition of dance) I really would be so grateful. I might even mention your name... as long as it's not Glyn who does it, I couldn't bear to be shown up for a techno idiot by him...

Booked it, packed it...

OK, just a quick one as I've got plenty of work to be getting on with.

It's been a good few days, some prayers have been answered and just generally things have been good:

1) We finally had an offer accepted on a house we like! It's a lovely place in Little Waltham, just outside Chelmsford.

2) We got our car back! OK, not a massive big deal in the overall grand scheme of things, but our car's beeen in the garage for three months so it's cool to get it back.

3) We're getting really close to going on holiday! I was at the embassy yesterday in London lodging the documents for our visas to go to China at the end of the month.

It's a trip that's been a long while in the planning, saving, and finally actually getting round to booking. Must confess I'm quite nervous about going too (can't really explain why) so if you could spare a few seconds to pray for our safety I know I'd feel reassured!

Thanks to all who have commented. I'll get round to updating the list of other blogs in the next fews days hopefully.

And if someone could tell me how, on Google blogger, I can add a link to some youtube video for the side bar, well that'd be just grand.

Be seeing you...