Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Getting ready for Australia!!!

I am sitting in an exhausted stupor at Glasgow airport waiting for my flight to Dubai. The last 4 days have been an absolute whirlwind as I prepared for leaving home for 5 weeks. Hoovering at midnight last night to make sure the house was reasonable for the nanny to take over, stupidly up at 6am this morning making a cheesecake for the kids tonight as it was promised a couple of nights ago. Yesterday was 3 trips to Stornoway -180 miles to get building materials for our new office, which hopefully will be complete when we return & our bedroom will no longer be a multi task space!!!

Cleaning out all the animals, making sure they all had plenty of feed for next few weeks, weeding my beautiful veggies, which will be most productive when I am away. Trying to give the kids some time, who were all giving me big hugs all day, leaving them for the school holidays is a big wrench, but we would have hardly seen them as we are working solidly day & evening whilst away so they are best at home in their own environment pier jumping, playing with friends & sleeping in their own beds.

Living in a small village can be difficult, yesterday I got reported to environmental health for going a way to Australia & leaving my 13 yr old in charge of the animals, nobody had rung me to check the facts, he is feeding the pigs every day under supervision to earn £75 for a pair of ridiculously expensive football boots, but that’s his passion & I think important for him to have earned the money rather than being spoilt. Any way the guy turned up saw the animals were in good health, that I had contingency plans in place & reassured me that he gets a lot of malicious phone calls, no wonder people get “paranoid” I am busy trying to work out who would do such a horrible thing with out the guts to speak to me first.

5 hours sleep, two nights in a row definitely don’t suit me. I hope I manage a long sleep on the plane.

We have a great tour ahead of us & are visiting & working in Tasmania for the first time, which I am really looking forward to as it is meant to resemble NZ my most favourite place on the planet.




Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor have an international reputation as speakers and authors. They are the directors of ‘Working to Recovery Limited’ an innovative international consultancy, training and publishing company with a cutting edge approach to supporting and improving mental health provision.

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