Date: 26th September 2005 Subject: Going back to New Zealand for Christmas! I finally made up my mind. After months of thinking about it I've decided that I'm going to go back to New Zealand for Christmas and the New Year. My boss is on holiday until Wednesday and when he's back I'm going to book the time off - I've taken almost no holiday this year at all and I cleared it in principle with him a couple of months back anyway; I just have to officially book it now. At the moment I'm looking at having three weeks there: 20th December 2005 to 10th January 2006. I'm soooooo excited I can hardly sit still long enough to type this. It feels like the right thing to do. Yes, it's going to be expensive but there's more to life than money and New Zealand means so much to me - I've been missing the country and all my friends there so much that it hurts since I got back to the UK. Look out Rotorua - here I come! Cheers, Ian.