Tuesday 5th August

Well its been a month since my last post and what a month its been, the college closed its doors to students for the last time. It was really a very stressy time everyone seemed emotionally charged. But its over now. I have to go back for the exams download and some small final works but that's it on the 31st of August.

On to the the migration, one of the children needs to have a further medical, its nothing to worry about its just Australia doing what the UK should be doing. The only problem is the extra cost up to £2k wow, my bank balance has had heavy hits over the last couple of months. The RFJO court case is just around the corner now too, just over 2 weeks time, we spoke to our Solicitor who reckons it is just a process we have to go through. Lets face it if you had not bothered to see your child for over 2.5 years, not paid anything to their upkeep, would you really expect to have any say on where they live? Of course there is the feelings of the children to take into account too and they ain't happy with the absent parents.

House buyers have had a wobble to and as it is at the moment we are back on the market, the estate agent thinks he can save the sale, maybe because it was them who messed up the deal in the first place. God I hate estate agents they really think they know everything and you are a moron, that is apart from two who are friends and I tell them I hate estate agents :)

Oh forgot to say we have a case officer in all this that is going on but obviously we have come to a halt until the medical results and RFJO is in their hands, but i reckon we could be on our way in the next 6 weeks.

Look out Bali I am in need of some serious chilling after all this stress.

It seems just recently that people are contacting me for copies of my RPL, this is something you must write from your own experience. There is a very good website www.rplhelp.co.uk I suggest that you take a look there as it will answer all the questions that you have. I did have some examples of RPL's but I don't have them anymore sorry.

If it is any help, here is how I wrote my RPL I sat down for many nights (nearly two weeks) and wrote a document of everything I could remember doing since I have been in IT, every little thing once I have got to the point where I felt I had no more to write into this document I then started looking at the RPL forms and applying my knowledge to the sections that I thought it applied to. Once I had completed this I got a couple people to read it then give me their opinions. These people ranged from very technically IT competent people to people who didn't understand IT. I let them comment on what they had read and took the advice on board, rewriting the final RPL many times, but making sure I didn't lose my initial stance. My only real advice is take your time I had forgotten more than I thought.