Upwards & Outwards!

Well hello, so sorry its been so long but many a weird and wonderful thing has happened since we were last here.

First things first, I'm writing this at my desk at work: my new job at the Environment Agency as Strategic & Development Officer in Flood Risk Management for the Anglian Region... including working on Shoreline Management Plan's (a passion inspired by my dissertation). I get to travel all over the Anglian region from the S. Essex / River Thames to N. Lincolnshire / River Humber from our base here in Peterborough.

So yes, for the quick ones amongst you, we've moved! Now living in a little village on the outskirts of Peterborough and, contrary to Becky’s first impressions, its amazing! Beautiful surroundings & loads going on. Great area, especially if you like a) bikes b) nature c) recycling d) H&M (we have two) - all of which we do! We have a cute little house, garden & amazing workshop shed for Toby.

We have found THE best church ever for us - Peterborough Community Church. The first week we went we spent ages signing up to stuff / finding out about the church in the community at their Mission Fair - I've already signed up for Prison Work & Toby's looking at the music group. We were SO welcomed, with lots of calls, visits & cards from various people in the church - so nice! It’s a free church with amazing gospel type worship which blew us away as we entered the hall. We looked at each other & knew that it was completely right for us - everything else that came afterwards has only confirmed it for us - YEY!

Other good news is:

• Mark is home with mum in Essex (just had a visit from Caroline who was back briefly from Afghanistan).
• After a rocky start Jenny is enjoying life at Uni in Miami, despite a major hurricane or two!
• Camilla & Mukhit have set Christmas Eve 2005 as their wedding date so we're off to Kazakhstan with the Foot family on the 17th December returning on the 27th Dec for Vent family New Year celebrations in Essex. For those who don't know where in the world Kazakhstan is here's a map (it’s the same size as the whole of Europe!).

More news soon...