Monday 1st January 2018

Well that’s 2017 over and done with, time to start 2018. Hopefully it will be a bit easier this year with less stress and less huge changes!

2017 started ok, we were still living in Cyprus and looking forward to another year there. I even managed to get over to the U.K. at the end of January to visit family in Hull and spend the day with my brother on his birthday. Even went to my first football match in alot of years and watched Liverpool, unfortunately they lost but still good to be there.

We definitely were not expecting things to change so much later in the year! I look back now and I can’t really believe how much things have changed for us.

It all started with Hales being told she was being made redundant after 16 years with the same company, the last 10 while living in Cyprus. It was definitely a shock and it took as a while to understand the full impact of the news.

We talked over all the options available to us, ultimately we decided our best option was to return to the UK and try to start again. We had always rented fully furnished in Cyprus so we didn’t have huge amounts of stuff to get rid of. We sold some stuff and gave away quite a few things as well.

We managed to put a little bit of money together from selling a few bits and a small bit of savings we had. We used that to pay to get back to the UK and start to furnish the place we had found to rent. We had decided to move back to the Ipswich area as we had lived there for longer than anywhere else, so it was a familiar place to be.

It’s been a bit of a hard year, getting used to life back in the UK. Plus we are kind of starting a new life again, having to gradually buy everything we need.

My MS is still deteriorating and I am still trying very hard to slow it down as much as I can, and keep my fingers crossed somebody finds a cure soon! It is what it is though, I don’ worry about it too much as that won’t help.

So life goes on, we are making a new life and new memories here. We are already feeling quite settled now and ready for any more challenges thrown at us!

That will do for today, I am determined to keep posting regular updates on my blog this year. So keep tuned in for further waffling from me!!!

Rob