So....yesterday was the second and last farewell party for lots of very dear friends.  The sun shone and it was really glorious luckily.  When so many lovely people are gathered together it brings home quite forcefully what you are leaving which we chatted about this morning as we walked the dogs.  So an enjoyable time was edged with a little sadness, but at the same time we rejoiced in this age of modern technology and social media where it is so much easier to keep in touch with people and what is going on in their lives.  And some people will come out to visit us - we hope!  We also know so many lovely people in Puerto Pollensa so we feel very lucky.  Recent PP citizens and dear friends Ray and Sandy who have just moved back to the UK came to our party, as did another dear friend Mary who is back and forth to PP a very great deal and who we will, in fact, meet up with in the Port just after our arrival :-D

Here are some pics from our party (and if you aren't sure what we look like, we're the couple on the right in the first picture).

Following our previous post about the last time for things, we're now having meals at our favourite restaurants/pubs one last time and trying to cram in all the things you suddenly realise you want to do, for example I'd love to go on the newly opened i360 in Brighton and we've also just booked to see the Absolutely Fabulous movie.  It's the little things that you just take for granted that sneak up on you.  The major things you think about, but it's those pesky small ones that are in fact the bigger reminders of what you are about to do.  So our move is concentrating the mind wonderfully on all we've not done/visited/re-visited and so on!

Other reminders of our move (which is now just over two weeks away) is at Tesco - other supermarkets are also available ;-)  Recently I bought one of those large 3kg bags of pasta and the thought occurred to me that we wouldn't still be in the UK to finish it.  And I'm now buying 'normal' sized items such as ketchup or a box of washing machine tablets and knowing that we won't be here to finish them which is as good an indicator as any of the swift passage of time towards our departure date.

In the meantime we are hugely looking forward to a family wedding on 10th September and our last Saturday in UK.  It will be such a happy event and a lovely way to mark our last weekend here and as I love a good wedding I couldn't be more excited.  Then on Monday 12th our possessions are collected and start their journey to Mallorca and we leave on Wednesday 14th.....