Getting it together...

It is 10 days until I leave for Africa and I am trying to get my life together...into 2 suitcases in fact! Leaving the country for 2 years destined for a third world country and only 30kg or so to play with really makes you think about what Balloo and Mowgli were always on about...the 'bare necessities'. My priorities are clothes, make up, dvds and photos! But I'm sure when I spend a few weeks there I will find I have only worn 10% of all the clothes I take out, and when my last speck of Body Shop powder is gone I will just get over it, and when I experience a power cut during an episode of One Tree Hill I will find life goes on without dvds too! But I will seriously be needing those photos, no matter what else is going on in my head, if I take 5 packs of blu-tac and all my photos and wallpaper the cottage with them...I know that will make it feel like home. If home is the people who surround you...I'm going to cover every brick with a smiley face of someone I love and make it feel like home. So each of you...you may think you are firmly grounded on British soil, but while I'm away there will be a little piece of you alive on my wall and making me feel loved and strong enough to face the world outside my door x