The job search is still going on and my husband (or whatever you would want to call him) still lives in the house, There is an uneasy truce which will probably remain until the financials are negotiated. That will be difficult.

Anyway, as I said I won't moan. I am going to write about the good things that are going to happen to me and my children.

We will have more space. We won't have to keep quiet when he is asleep during the day (shift worker). Most importantly of all I am not tied down to living near Heathrow Airport.

The children and I would like to live by the sea, however, I also want to live somewhere where there is a community and where the pace of life is not driven by money and the need to own material things to be judged as successful. Or even to look like Madonna (i.e., role model for Mid forties mother of two children!!!).

Does such an idyll exist? I need to find it.