Zip it up

So, all in all, as a fairly frequent traveller, I give these bags 10 out of 10 and highly recommend them for your travelling adventures. This gallery contains 15 photos. This week I went back to Iraq to deliver a training. So, while flipping back through my facebook posts searching for something unrelated, I thought I would put together a little montage of snippets from the last 6 months of my life for all my readers out there.

Felt so proud of my self-control I rewarded myself with a gin and tonic. I have been grappling with my tax situation for months, and occasionally sharing my pain and frustration via facebook, so I thought I would chart the horrific atrocities of both HMRC and my irritating employer in full here so that you can all feel my pain and share the burden of horror from the beginning. You know that thing where you work overseas for almost 2 years, and a month before you come home your employer realises you should have been registered as non-tax resident in order to reclaim all your tax?

So you fill in all the forms, discover you have to also do a tax return and start the excruciating process of registering online for a self-assessment form.

And after spending more than an hour on hold on three separate numbers before they refer you back to the first number you called, you just start to weep while bashing your head repeatedly against the desk. Yeah, that. One thing you learn to accept as an aid worker is that you are never going to have a small, or especially environmentally-friendly carbon footprint.

There are just too many flights involved! Not only do I travel to far-flung and exotic places for work, and then generally want to take holidays around the general area of wherever you happen to be, but I also have family in the UK and Australia that I try to visit once in a while, and a lot of friends having fabulous destination weddings at the moment in places like Canada and France!

I think might turn out to be a record-breaking year for me in terms of flights and travel, as I look back at everywhere I have been this year, and am simultaneously busy planning both work trips and holidays for the coming months. Ah well, better late than never…. Cracked dry mud — all crunchy under your feet! These are from back in January or February I think — my colleagues and I were visiting a village when a sandstorm blew in, and everything went a bit orange… We did see some funky goats and sheep though.

All that white stuff on the ground is salt — the ground is seriously salty in this village! This gallery contains 19 photos. My colleagues and I put together a traditional Kurdish feast to celebrate Iftar breaking the fast with everyone at the office. Read More. Quick and Easy to Install. This system can be used in a variety of spaces and applications, but no matter where you choose to use ZipUP, you'll be left with a durable, finished look!

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