One week to go. Everything going swimmingly apart from the fact that Birmingham Airport have decided (or Amicus workers anyway, or some of them at any rate) to go on strike, starting next Thursday 8th December and including Saturday, 10th December the day we are due to go away. KLM have nothing to advise us at the moment, except keep in touch, and we will probably have to depart from another airport. What a nause. Bhx is just up the road from us, a short taxi ride away. The next nearest airport which KLM fly out of is Manchester. Anyway, apart from that, all systems go. Have a new job which is just starting to get busy (out three days this coming week) but can't be helped, I finish on Friday no matter what! Our lovely dog still doesn't know that we are going away, and this is probably for the best.