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Yesterday I took the day off work and we made a lot of progress on our NZ Residency application. Well, when I say that, what I actually mean was we got our medical examinations, chest X-Rays and blood tests done.

Sophie was really well behaved, she got quite bored but was still quite happy by the end of it all. We have all had the same cold recently - it’s gone from Sophie to Candi to Me - so it was quite funny turning up for health assessments, all coughing and sneezing. I felt like we had to justify ourselves, “we aren’t normally this ill, honestly!“

It shouldn’t take long before we have all the results back, then we just need our completed application forms, ACPO Police Check certificate (waiting on this from the UK) and all supporting evidence - ie exam certificates etc, then we’ll be one step closer to our NZ Residency.

The NZ Immigration Service says we should allow up to 9 months for our applications to be processed, but a friend of a friend just went through the same thing and theirs was approved in six weeks. I guess they don’t have much of a backlog at present.

We’ll keep you updated on our progress. Watch this space!

It’s official and I can announce it…. WE ARE MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND!

While we were over there, I had several meetings and interviews with prospective employers and managed to secure a job offer with an internet-based company. The job starts on 10 April and we are very busy at the moment, selling most of our stuff and organizing the relocation. As you might imagine, there is so much to do but we are making good progress - we even sold our car yesterday (which was a bit of a worry, what if it didn’t sell?) and are getting quotes from international moving companies about shipping some of our furniture.

It’s a very exciting time and it’s not without it’s problems, but hopefully we will manage to get everything sorted in time.

Stay tuned for updates,  we intend to keep this blog updated as we go.

Hi all!

Well we are here at last 1 February 2007. How quickly hasn’t this date come since we first decided in November to book our tickets to NZ.

We are all ready and packed. Our handluggage is under weight and our main luggage is exactly on the mark (or so our home scales say). Sophie is at present chewing on the bagged Mozzie net Cindi gave to us. I have spoken to Graham and he said no Mozzies only sandflies and that he has spray for this as they don’t use and we wont need the net phew! One less thing to pack and one more pair of shoes in it’s place Shhh, Ross is off to the Doctors at the moment, his finger looks a bit purple and is sore so I sent him off there as I don’t want us to take any chances.

It’s seems quite weird to be going away for nearly a whole month . I must admit that having Lou look after Tigger and the how I am remarkably calm (must be all the booze I had for breakfast, only kidding).

Anyhow, Sophie is starting to perform so must dash.

Lots of love to you all and watch this space and remember we would love to hear from you all, to comment to will need to register though.

Ta ta for now

CandiXXXXXXXXXXX