Eleven years in Nottingham come to an end.

Over a month since the last entry and lots has happened.  We have an offer on the house and are looking to complete in a few weeks, we have a house in Bristol to rent near a school where we hope to get a place for Jake.  We spent a week in Bristol during April meeting up with friends of friends and generally getting to know areas of the city we didn't already know.  We have left Trent just last week and I am just tying up loose ends, making preparation for the new church and making the most of time with friends before we leave.

Can't believe we have been in Nottingham for 11 years, did you know that when we arrived in Nottingham in 1998, Google hadn't even been launched!  It's a long time in a young man's life! We're feeling like the Narnia kids who after living in Narnia for a 100 years, fell out of the wardrobe into their own world only to discover that they were still kids!   (watched Prince Caspian the other day - cute but that's all...)  Before we decided to move to Nottingham in 97, we were intent on moving to Bristol, but we were unable to.  Now the time is right.

So it's with a mixture of emotions that we say goodbye to friends in Nottingham - it's been an amazing 11 years - by far the longest period of our adult lives in one place.  We have made friends here who will be life-long friends, we have shared lives with a community of people in Trent and been part of contributing some good to our city, we have had our kids here and though our youngest may not remember Nottingham, for them it has been a tremendous start to their lives and we will always remind them of where they were born and the friends they started their young lives with.

Took Jake climbing at the climbing centre on Monday - he loved it....