Car Boots, Tyres and Beef

In my first post I only gave a quick overview of how we got here. I'm going to, in true Star Wars and Lord of The Rings fashion, leave it to someone else to fill in the blanks from the beginning at a later stage. 

 Having returned from another car boot, this time on a Saturday. What do you think I wanted to do? To sit down and have lunch, sit in the garden in the sun, maybe even pack some more boxes. I'm pretty sure it wasn't change a flat tyre! Still it's given me the opportunity to sit down to recover and write this note... 

Yesterday was my last working day in the office, which was strange. It didn't really feel like a last day. Having already said goodbye to Charlie Bear and the Primary Project about 3 weeks ago, along with a large number of the Student Ambassadors I have worked with in the last one to two years. Our final team meeting was on Tuesday, so it has been a gradual wind down. That being said it is still hard to imagine not going into Chichester, not driving past the pig farm, not planning how to provide an aspiration, awareness and attainment activity for 120 students and not seeing the usual faces each day. While I am extremely excited about our adventure, I am sad to leave behind what has been an amazing programme of activities and what was a great team. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who signed my leaving card and attended my leaving drinks. Chichester has been a huge part not not just my life but Chloe's too. The University of Chichester is where we met and so will always have a place in our hearts. I will, of course, be staying in touch, I have a future alumnus article to be part of! 

 Chloe is finishing work this Wednesday and while she is saying 'yay' now, I know she will deeply miss the people she works with. So Chloe still has the works leaving do to come, with all the ups and downs that comes with. Speaking of leaving seeing you soon dos. We do need to make a slight change to ours. In that our original plan was to have it at home. However we will now lightly be at Chloe's mums, due to our attempt at leaving sooner so the house can be let out. This does mean we need to rethink our venue. *Note to self* 

 We are planning to make real progress with the house now. Hopefully we will be able to move out by next weekend, or early the following week. Which is good because it means will be able to settle the cats at Chloe's mums before we leave. We are going to miss Tom, Millie and Marmalade lots and lots. I'm sure there aren't many cats that catch and play with butterflies, bees, mice and joints of beef! 

Well that's it for now, I'll be back for another update soon (when there's some Internet available).