Sore heads!

It was the leaving party last night! About 70 friends and family gathered at Ashton cricket club to wish us well. Thank you coming. Hopefully we'll catch up with the rest of you who couldn't make it before we leave. There was even a competition to see who could turn up fashionably late. Nick, Jean and Lizbob thought they had won it with their appearance at 10 pm, however, Rob Clark, an old lacrosse friend turned up at 11.30pm!! He had to back in London for 10am.

Thanks are also due to Joan and Ian (Jo parents), Alan and Linda (my parents) and Ian Heginbotham for being the DJ.

The post party party took place at the home of my parental units (thanks Ross, still using this) and ended at about 5.30 when woolly and Vicky Raymer crashed on the sofa after discussing the intricacies of the drinking game 'I have never'. Vicky, who went to Loughboro, played the game in a slightly different way to the rest of the population so I can only surmise that Loughboro have their own special rules. Makes you wonder what else they have their own special rules for? Anyone reading this who has played university sport in the UK will appreciate where I'm coming from.

So, as you can imagine there were a few sore heads this morning amongst the chaos and debris! Vicky Badger was up bright and early though. She is also heading out to NZ and is on the same flight schedule as Jo but leaves a day later! Not sure why these two didn't discuss this prior to booking tickets. Jo and Vicky were at medical school together and she is going to be working in the Hawkes Bay region of North Island. Jo is also annoyed that she can only take one suitcase of 20kgs whereas I can take two of 23kgs due to the fact that I'm travelling through the USA whereas Jo is travelling through Dubai. So at the moment she has two and bit suitcases worth of clothes to whittle down!!

No doubt another sore head awaits.

We also have a full week of dining out!!

The other good news is that my friend Dom Gill has finished his epic journey from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierre del Fuego on a tandem picking up strangers along the way. We quickly rang him and he sounded great and hopefully I'll see him before I head out. Fantastic, as its been over two years since I last saw him.