Goodbye from Stanley

I'm desperate to keep in touch and hang on to, and share with you, the last moments of being here on line. Knowing our luck and Cable and Wireless we'll be switched off first thing tomorrow.
I was hoping by now that I could send reports of balmy summer evenings, but we have had 50 mile per hour winds today (forecast, at least, and it was blustery, but not sure what the gusts actually measured) and it's still chilly. Temperatures reach double figures most days now though, but only just. No getting away from the lovely light evenings and mornings. Sunrise is just before 5am and sunset after 8.30pm. I've been soaking up as much of the Milky Way and the Southern Cross as I can, and trying to watch a complete phase of the moon, waxing and waning the other way up (that definitely happens), but we've not had that many clear nights. I've also, for the umpteenth time in the Southern Hemisphere, tried to categorically state the direction that the water goes down the plughole. Clockwise seems favoured in the bath here, but it can be easily encouraged to go anti clockwise.
As C (who I was covering for) is back, I'm sitting at someone else's desk, exactly where I was for a year in 2002/3, with a better view of the harbour, the flag and, because it's a bigger window, you have time to look up when you hear a tornado coming, so I'm happy to have been moved.
I put up the flag yesterday and, when I walked away, it was at half mast, so I hurriedly unhooked the rope and yanked it up higher, in case people driving past thought someone important had died!
I know I'll think of something profound to say as soon as I press send, and I must call it a day sometime.
Maybe there'll be a wireless hotspot in the hotel on Ascension. The Obsidian -have a look at the website and think of us there from about 10pm UK time on Tuesday till about the same time on Friday in temperatures approaching 30!
Last day at work tomorrow, still lots to do, then a weekend of packing and visiting old haunts and having a last swim, Monday paying all the bills and an early morning drive to MPA on Tuesday to check in around 8am.
I can't believe that I'm talking about days next week and that next Saturday I'll be walking through the door at home (and fetching Amber!!!!!)
I must go, it's 8.40pm and is almost dusk.
love to everyone from both of us.