This evening the plan was to go out for dinner with Kirsty to Kachina in Shirley. Kirsty dropped by just after seven and we toddled off down Shirley High Street. Looking through the window outside the restaurant I thought I spotted people I knew but wasn’t sure as they were all wearing party hats.

On walking through the door I was pleasantly surprised to find Kath, Shelly, Jane, Ali, Hugh, Richard, Steve Thomas, Caz and someone who I hadn’t met before Phillipa already waiting there for us. Here I am in Southampton with a bunch of friends that are prepared to turn up for a meal to say goodbye and now I’m off to Essex with having to start over again with it all. As I always thought its this fact that giving me cold feet about going to work in Essex rather than the new job itself.