My final post

Well I've done it - new colours, new title, new blog.  If you'd like a look - just click here.

I'd love to hear from you if you do venture over that way. It's a bit of a black hole in blogger land sometimes in terms of who looks at the blog and what you think. Please feel free to drop me a line at pricepoppets@gmail.com J

And one final word about "Going places" - I'm going to look at printing it - yep - all 300 odd pages of it.  It is such a good record of our adventure (and what an adventure it was!) and a nice coffee table version will be just the ending it deserves.

And some final words about our time away.  I loved it. I love the UK.

I loved seeing the relatives, soaking up the history and exploring the gorgeous countryside.

I loved sitting in English pubs and walking through snow covered meadows.

I loved our house and the green fields next to it.  I loved going to photography club with Ian from next door.

I loved the trees and the grand old country estates.

I love the hedges and old stone walls and the skinny lanes they lined.

I love the rugged coastal cliffs and the quaint old cottages.

I love London with its big red buses, the Thames and Big Ben.

I love Edinburgh and all is historical glory.

I love it and I feel at home there.

But most of all I love that I shared it with my family, who I know loved it too.

What next?

What to do with this blog?  It's been a big part of my life for the last 15 months and I already miss the idea that the adventure is over and that this won't continue, at least in it's current format anyway.

I love that I've got such a good record of what we've been up to and how the kids have skipped, laughed and thrived their way through our time away.  It has been such a fabulous ride, better than I could have hoped for and although the excitement of new and unchartered territory has gone, life certainly still goes on.

And for that reason I'd like to keep on blogging.  The posts won't be as exciting, the scenery not so stunning, but the people will be the same and this time round we'll be doing normal family day stuff.

I need to come up with another name - I think, sadly, that "Going Places" has come to an end.  I need a new beginning again, I've got a few ideas, just give me a few days and hopefully I'll have something up and running....

Watch this space J