Up Early Thinking About Going To Ethiopia

Hi, I'm Dave Rose and on Sunday I'll be travelling to Ethiopia with 2 colleagues from Yorkshire Water, Steph Walden and Dave Stevenson.  We are going to Ethiopia as part of an initiative to enable us to achieve one of our Safe Water Startegic Business Objectives.  I'm setting off today because I'm going to stop off in Stoke Newington tonight with my son Tom and his partner Liz.  I'll meet up with Steph and Dave at Heathrow tomorrow ready to fly out at 2015hr.
Last night was spent ironing and running round the house piling clothes on the bed and deciding what I am going to take and what I'm not going take whilst being distracted by Children In Need who have raised a fantastic amount of money.
This morning I woke up early, thinking about twittering and blogging, hence this first blog and the first tweet earlier.
There has been loads and loads of work going on behind the scene to allow this visit to take place and I know I am very lucky to be one of those that gets to go to Ethiopia.  Thank you to Christine Mellor and Laura Firth who's name keeps coming up on emails with ever more information sorting out all the admin that needs to be done for these visits and all our colleagues who have sorted phones, got T-Shirts, set up communications and everything else that has been done to make sure the 3 of us have everything we need to make this trip a success.
For those prefer less verbose updates you can follow us at @YWEthiopia
Speak to you soon, Dave