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I would like to wish everyone who reads my blog a Happy New Year and I hope Santa gave you everything you asked for. My family and I are looking forward to our new life starting in Canada very soon (cant wait) and look forward to meeting friends, old and new.

Hooray, That's it Ive finished work for Christmas nothing to do now except eat drink and be merry oh and go shopping tomorrow for presents and then nothing to do until Jan 5th.

Well the snow has come to the UK, and no surprise the country as come to a stop!! Since Thursday of last week the news has been dominated by the stories of the snow bringing chaos to the roads and towns! Mmmm is it like that in Canada?? Hope not! Still we have taken advantage of it and had fun. Kane as enjoyed getting Tina with snowballs!

Dover Castle

Today we decided to go out to Dover Castle, and typically with the British weather it chucked it down just as we got to the motorway! However to our surprise it stopped as soon as we arrived in Dover. Kane loved the Wartime tunnels and was full of questions for the tour guide. He even managed to spook everyone when he said he saw a man at the end of a bunker tunnel laughing. The guide was not sure if he was making it up or not but said she was worried as no one should have been there! Kane however found this even more amusing.

Seeing Command rooms, hospitatheatre rooms and quarters in the tunnels was amazing and brought home what effort was made in winning the war. We were not allowed to take photos which was abit disappointing but it was well worth going for.

Dover Castle itself was great. Kane loved running around the grounds and seeing all the cannons, he was on the look out for Dark Knights ready to attack us. He even had the chance to have a sword fight with a Knight. We had to call him the King of the Swords!

To-day has been a good day ,the weather has been good plenty of sun shine but a little chilly 5c.
I'm still chasing my own tale around the home county's . Two loads to Folkstone a Tunbridge Wells and a Hastings then home for tea.

Last night we went out for the evening, and left Kane with his grandparents . We meet up with another couple who we can now call friends and would like to thank them for some great conversion and a terrific evening.

Two pictures i forgot yesterday

Not much happening at the moment I'm still working the twilight shift,The weather is still wet and windy and if the weatherman is to be believed were in for a cold snap there forecasting -3to-7 over night, not to worry the cabs nice and warm.

The rain started Monday and hasn't stopped since has made delivering to sites really interesting.

Today i have been delivering in sunny sussex . The sun is out but the wind is still blowing

Well got a E-mail from Canada telling me I have been booked onto an air brake course on the 15Th of MAY , It is a bit further away than we had hoped for but a lest we have a date to work to . I have sent an E-mail asking if there is an earlier date but have received no reply yet.Ha ray we have also decided that we are going together as a family to start our new life so we can get acclimatized together before I start being away.

We all went ice skating today, it was Kane's first time and he fell over alot to start with, but after a while he got the hang of it and managed a lap on his own. A bit more practice he will be great. Tina was whizzing around like a pro and i was steadily going round and trying not to fall over while the 10 year olds ran rings around me.

To day it hasn't stopped raining in sunny Kent , The weatherman says will have more rain for a lest 48hr we have already had 3 inches and the roads are flooded. I delivered to Thanet Earth today which is the biggest hydroponic farm in the UK. The glow of the artificial lights can be seen for miles.

The glow of the lights of Thanet Earth

Good news my police check came back to-day hip hip hooray,it was only 7 days late thanks royal mail the strike really helped NOT!!!! so back to the waiting to hear from Canada now, still all good things come to those who wait.

We have just got back from a family night out , We went to a steak house for a spot to eat . I had a lovely steak and chips and Tina had a rack of ribs ,Kane had a huge hot dog and fries then a bowl of ice cream . Then it was off to the pictures to see UP it was hilarious one of funniest films I've seen in ages well worth a viewing I'm still laughing now.

A Big thank you

Hi Tina here, Chris's wife. I just wanted to add a Big thank you for some great emails I have received from other partners of drivers who have been kind enough to share some of their experiences with me, they have given me some guidance on how to get things started with respect of moving, flights etc.

I now don't feel like I am the only wife in the world going through it all.... and i think Chris is also relieved as my panic attacks about it all may start to whittle a little!

Once again Thank You. :)

Not much happening on the immigration front ,still waiting for my police check to come back to get a definite start date so it still just march 2010. So i was going to use the blog for driving in the UK but the work we're doing at the moment is very boring just running around Kent and not very interesting to read about. So i thought i would tell you about our family day out to the woods,Autumn is really here the colours of the trees and leafs are out of this world . Kane loves the out doors, He enjoys climbing trees and is fascinated by the wild life and the woods . After the long walk we were all hungry so we stopped at a little cafe i know for some dinner then it was off home to sleep it off ready for the excitement of Monday.

Canadian Expo

Well we went to the Expo in Hammersmith to-day,it was OK but not as big as we expected because it was Nz Oz and Canada all in one.Canada wasn't represented very well but it seemed to be the one ever-body wanted to immigrate to.We spoke to the removal company's that were there and found out that it wont be as expensive as we thought to move our stuff out to Canada.My wife Tina nearly had kittens when she found out it was going to take 8 to 10 weeks for our stuff to reach us out there.It looks as if we are all going to try and move as a family rather than me go and try to work and worry about Tina and Kane in the UK. When i get a definite start date i can start planing a recce for us to come over to secure a place to live and then we can find a school for Kane.

Not much has happened except H&R have offered me a job to start with them in March 2010.
I've sent off all my references and all the other paper work , just waiting for my police check to come back now. We are off to a Canada expo on Saturday in London and I hope to find out more about the schools and try to get some info on sorting out a house to rent . This will help us decide whether Tina & Kane will come out with me or whether I go on my own for three to six months?

Well this is all very new to us, but we thought we would start this blog after seeing so many other bloggers from the UK who have managed to start a new life in Canada.

Still based in the UK my family and I wish to start a new life in Canada and have spent several months researching the in's and out's on how to start. So far we have read about 20 or more blogs, all the provinces within Canada websites, and contacted lots of companies... and still confused as ever!

We have booked tickets to a Canada Expo in Hammersmith in October and hope this will enlighten us more.

In the meantime we will be off to Newcastle on Monday for an interview with a company called H&R Transport.

We know someone who's Dad drives for them and who has a blog. He has good things to say but there have been some very negative blogs and comments about them. However we want to be able to make our own minds up and think the best way is to go for the interview and take it from there. What harm can it do?? So watch this space!!