Yes overseas. Pumped for East Africa but we've been offered Asia and it is a good package. No more winter, whooppee. And a chance to save a good home deposit.

Airline tickets are booked to visit grandparents at Christmas. We won't be home next year, it has to be done now. Timing couldn't be worse but we'll survive.

Kids are thrilled. Neither really enjoys the attention they get in white middle class suburbia. Plus being in the region we can visit their birth nation much more regularly.