I might be getting a little ahead of myself here but I’ve created a new mix for November in celebration of us buying our first house. We found out yesterday that the first stage of our mortgage application has gone through and the second stage (surveyance) has been initiated. Considering the house is only ten years old, the chances are good for the bank to lend us the money so the biggest hurdle of the move has been jumped.

Last Christmas, my wife forked out and bought me a (now extinct) Silver iPod Mini. It was a great present as it allowed me to now take all those MP3s I had around with me, in the car, on holiday - even to parties. The only problem I found with it (apart from losing it to often than not) was the 4GB storage space. I love my MP3s and pretty much all my music has been converted to MP3 so when it comes to taking my music around with me, I have to prioritise and only put on my iPod the music I really like at the time.

It’s been one helluva week for the Joblings residence. We started the week by putting an offer on our first house which was accepted. During all the paperwork involved, we fitted in a visit to the NIA to see the artist they call Jamie Cullum. Friday morning was taken up teaching kids about animation. The week came to a close with the second Multipack meeting on Saturday.

This coming Saturday will see the first official meeting of the original Multipack members. Since our initial meeting in Walsall back in October (it seems an age away!), there has been many ongoing debates and conversations between members about what the group are about, what our initiative is, but the majority of our energy was unfortunately taken up on the topic of our name.