Expatriation

From a new years' resolution to open up possibilities...here we are at 8th of the 8th of 2008 - the start of the 北京 Olympics, and less than a week away from moving the entire family across the world to the United Kingdom for the next 5 years.

A process begun in mid April with a query has brought me here to today, where I am finally holding a UK Work Permit and Clearance Visas for us all. In the meantime, we have moved out of our not-so-old home, found a new one that we haven't seen in the flesh yet, and had a string of farewells that has become so long that I'm starting to hear

Are you still here?

more often than

Goodbye.

Ah well, Au Revior, 再见. I may be going There, but to quote Ambassador Kosh,

I have always been here.