Today is admin & packing & ferry-booking day

1. Phoned the school to explain that Gwilym & Catrin are not there (I think they noticed) because we have not yet left Wales - and that we hope to travel this coming weekend.

2. Tackled the forms to say that we are leaving the country and will no longer pay British tax. However they require our P45s, which we don't yet have.

3. Tackled the form to tell the bank to pay our interest tax-free because we are not UK-resident any more. However, the forms the bank sent us all say "DO NOT USE THIS FORM IF YOU ARE NOT UK RESIDENT" on the top. I suppose I could fill it in quickly before we leave!

4. The form for insurance cover for the removal. This one was easy, except for guessing values.

5. On Saturday ordered a telephone line on the France Telecom website for the Villenave house. This morning got 2 emails from France Telecom (FT).
1) Please send a photocopy of your id card (=passport) and your bank details to your local FT branch
2) Your order has been cancelled. (Is it me or does that seem curt?)
Maybe it will take longer than I hoped to get our phone.

6. Booked the ferry for 18h15 on Saturday from Dover to Boulogne. We'll stay in Deeside overnight on Friday. Then from the ferry we'll drive as far as we can in the Bordeaux direction and stay in an Etap overnight on Saturday before continuing the next day.
The ferry cost £25. (It's £25 for a car up to 1.85m high. Our car is 1.849m according to the brochure.)
It feels rather final to buy a one-way ticket, but it's WELL under budget!

Next job - standing order for the rent. Pat's busy packing.

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