Chasing my tail

If life was busy before, it's now about to become even more so. As of tomorrow, I start working at Oxfam as an Emergencies Press Officer, with my main focus on being increasing media coverage of the situation in Darfur and Chad and the role Oxfam is playing there. I am incredibly excited about it and think it's going to be a fantastic challenge, but I'm a little anxious about the commuting - as the job is based in Oxford it may be four hours a day on the road. I have been told that I can do one day a week from home, so hopefully that will ease some of the burden, but I obviously don't want to jeopardise my relationship with Azara, so I will have to be sensible. As I start tomorrow, I'll try and keep this short and sweet, but just to report that Azara is doing fantastically and has just spent a very happy week with Nanna and Pappa while Jon and I were in Iceland. We went camping and it was a really fascinating - if a little over-priced. It was the second time in a couple of weeks that we'd been away. Prior to that we were in Istanbul for my thirtieth, which luckily came and went without too much of a bang. The weekend in between was spent in Crosby and its highlight was a truly brilliant hen night for Ellen. It's amazing how great it is being back with the family and it's made me even more excited about the wedding in a few weeks' time. Sorry if Azara looks a little bit like a convict in this picture. I can't immediately find any other recent ones, so I thought I'd upload this for now. She really loves the tambourine -- a present from Turkey, along with some Turkish princess slippers.

Well, I'd better go. Love to you all,

Hannah

xxx