Hi I'm back. I managed to get 5 hours sleep - not quite enough but not too bad. I actually fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow, partly due to the late hour, but also due, I'm sure, to some help from Daylia. Whatever you did, it worked a treat, Daylia. I even woke up this morning having a pleasant dream about the house I grew up in, only it was in present time. The new people in it were very welcoming and said I could stay in it any time. Significant, eh?

I now have all my drums and instruments, photos, special objects and a few other things smuggled out to my car (locked) and covered over. Only Riana (the little Indonesian wife) is here, and she went up the road to the shops on foot, so I got the last of those things in the car just now. After I finish work this afternoon, I will be taking these things to my new place, where I've been invited for dinner and a bouzouki lesson. Does that give any of you OZ catters a clue who he is? He's very well known in the Sydney folk scene and he used to sing in a duo (so did I not long ago, but that's another long dreary story). Naemanson and Charley Noble would definitely know him too.

My folk club is on tomorrow night, and some of the people coming are willing to help me. I will find out then how many of their friends they have managed to round up. It's possible I might have a posse of the Sydney Morris Men on moving day - a sight to make even the biggest bully quail :-)

BTW, Sydney cats, I need lots of smallish cardboard boxes!

To answer some of your posts, the agent knows all the gory details, and has been very helpful. I even showed her the nasty notes, which I have kept. I will show them to the police too. When the bond comes back, I can have it all put in my account and just give them what I think is their share of it, less their share of the bills. I will be cancelling the phone and my name on the electricity and gas accounts just after I move out. I already have call control on the phone, so they have only been able to make local calls ever since we had the blow-up about the phone. I have my mobile phone, so I will always be contactable.

Helen, thanks for the PM. What you said here about the possibility that they might initially be happy I am going - that has crossed my mind. I agree that it would be good to do a lot while they are in a euphoric state, if that is the case. Unfortunately most of the activity will have to be on weekends, due to that little thing called work. Most of my friends suffer from that affliction, too. I have made a note of your numbers. I am actually printing out some of the info I need 'cos I realize after Friday I won't be able to access anything on the computer. I'm not sure how you can help either from up there, but I will keep in contact. I'll PM you my numbers.

Amergin, I hope I get a chance to meet you one day too when you come to Oz. Keep in contact.

Daylia, thanks for what you have done for me. I have also bookmarked those websites and printed out the relevant stuff.

In fact, on Friday, I think I will print out this whole thread. It makes me feel so much better just reading it. After that Sandra can tell me about it.

Clinton, I like the way you think. I still think you're a knight... Actually you hit on one of the many gross things I've had to live with. Trouble is, if I superglued the toilet seat up, it would take them a few days to discover it. Its normal state seems to be up here. Down might be better (grin). Either way I pity poor Riana, having to use it too. Maybe another tried and true method, like prawns in the curtain rods? Nah, that's no good - I need to get my bond back. Well it's fun thinking about it, anyway.

I keep thinking of a saying I heard once - "The best revenge is to survive". I don't know who said it, but it's what I'm focussing on.

Now I'm off to get a money order to send Nicole for the Mudcat Cookbook, to be sent to my new address, of course. Sorry it's taken so long to send it, Nicole, but it's hard to keep everything humming along in this kind of situation. I am looking forward to it very much.

I'll come back to this thread in about 10 hours, just before I go to bed. Thank you very much everybody. As I said to Sinsull, I'm so glad I started this thread. I knew I came to the right place for support.

Love, Jenny