Well just over a week ago we arrived back in Sheffield! It still seems very strange. We have been in touch with Marco and Cinzia and they are doing okay - we miss them!

Our parcels arrived from Italy totally destroyed, I mean seriously damaged - big slashes down the sides and holes in the boxes. There were literally things falling out of them - extraordinary. We insured them, however, the Italian PO has said that you need receipts to prove what was in them - we'll see what develops this week. We are missing a load of stuff and our computer has taken a battering, when I openned it up pieces fell out.

We have had a fairly quiet week on Wednesday I applied for a job online and within 3 minutes I had the agency calling me and they set me up with an interview the next morning. That went well and I have a weeks trial starting tomorrow morning - all very fast.

We have just been to Blackpool for the weekend for Andrea to see the cats (and her parents and sister) which was nice and we are awaiting the return of Liz and John from a weekend trip to Germany to meet up with some missionary guys there.