I hope they are reading. You two are howt uv hordar. Pretty smiles and bleddy hets. Vait teal yahoo gatt haom. Spashly u Valley. No vine four u toonite.

but you will have all those things that you can not get rid of, the pictures, the toys that the children can not bare to part with, the family heirlooms that you now hold in trust for your children, the first card your child made by hand for you, the first gift they gave you with the money they earned on their own, the last gifts given by family members now passed on.  We threw out 3 garbage bags of stuff on Sunday, and packed 3 boxes looked around and it looked just as bad as ever.  Then my Mother-in-Law came up for dinner and had "advice" for me AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Wyrdsister, by the time I leave this island I will most likely have the kids out of the roost and they can have everything they need.  That is my perspective though.  I understand what you are going through.  I left ALOT at my parents home and each time I go home I go through my stuff, look at the memories, smile, and then pack them up again and put it in their attic so it isn't destroyed down here with the humidity.

all this talk about shipping stuff is giving me ideas. Me and my partner are visiting the uk on ba next month, just for a long weekend. we are only taking hand luggage. i wonder if I could advertise my baggage on e-moo, on subsides y trip by acting as a courier?

A buddy of mine once got detained by Canadian customs when he flew to Toronto.  They had him pegged as a drug mule; I guess his shaved head and goatee fit some profile other than of a computer guy. 

He didn't ingratiate himself with the customs officer when he suggested they were stupid to think that anybody would smuggle drugs from Bermuda where they cost so much more than they do in Canada.  They stopped short of the body cavity search, but they know him as a smart ass now.   

In the last 6 months my brother-in-law and his wife had to pack up and leave the island (he has been sent to London by his company for the next 3 years).  S-i-l packed up china and stuff to be sent to their new home in the UK and called in Bda Forwarders, when they arrived they insisted that they had to pack everything themselves if it was to be shipped through them.  Now can anyone tell me if they have heard of this before?  Or was this an effort to just get more money from people who look like they can afford it?