Well with less than a month to go Mark and I are getting quite excited. We've watched the markets and ordered our initial currency, we've booked accommodation in London at the Easy Hotel near Paddington prior to our flights on Friday 14th, so everything is starting to come together.

We've got dinner planned with friends in London, and hope to go on the London Eye while were there, we might even try and catch a film. I've been checking out the duty-free options and looking at check-in times at Heathrow and the Terminal 3 facilities so that we can enjoy everything. The only snags have been the return of my passport photos which delay proceedures further.

So with most of the admin in hand the plan has to be to think about Mark's 30th Birthday which we will celebrate out there. He has said that he wants to see the penguins so one of the plans is to get him to get a 'back-stage pass' to so its just him and the penquins, but theres nothing set in stone as yet.