AND WOW… THIS IS IT. One day to go and the excitement has really hit today, like full-on kid at Christmas vibes. It’s all getting real now. I’m actually going and weirdly the nerves have subsided and all the amazing feelings are just sitting there instead. That surprised me, but I’m not mad about it. TODAY WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS. I started the day doing a bit of work and then realised I needed to do a proper deep clean indoors. I had workmen come out and do some more boiler stuff, even though it’s new and already has a problem, but that’s a story for another day. Then it was all about getting everything together and sorted to head over to my second daughter’s this evening. Lily decided she didn’t want to go to cadets today because she felt it would be too much on top of the travel and honestly that was totally fine. We had a bit of chill time in the afternoon before everything kicked off. ENTER: LAST-MINUTE CHAOS. When it came to getting ready to leave, it was just pure rush and chaos. All the last-minute bits, making sure everything was by the front door, booking the taxi, and then… the cats. Getting the cats into their carriers was a whole fucking debacle. Two of them were actually really good and went straight into their carriers no problem. Freya, however, absolutely was not having it. She was adamant she was not going in that carrier and we ended up chasing her around the house for a good 20 minutes. Lily’s got cuts all over her arm from where she managed to catch her and got scratched, and I’ve got a big cut from my hand all the way up my arm which is pretty deep, so that was not ideal. We eventually caught her, but she was really stressed and I hated that, but it had to be done. Oh and Biscuit decided to be an escape artiest, she managed to open the zip on her carrier and do a Houdini. AND THEN… THE TAXI JOURNEY. So we finally get in the taxi, everything loaded up, cats in their carriers in the back with us, and this is where it gets interesting. Hetica was getting really stressed, so I was trying to calm her down and stroke her through the carrier. She then scratched me through the carrier, bit me through the carrier, and decided halfway through the journey that she was going to shit herself.