The last six weeks of my life have been rather manic. And that’s putting it mildly. Not content with PURCHASING A GODDAMN ISLAND and preparing for life in Panama, I also moved out my flat in Manchester…

Finally received my Guinness World Record certificate…

Helped organise Global Scouse Day on February 28th…

Helped organise the inaugural Great Liverpudlian Scouse Off at Maggie May’s (and made chums with the Lord Mayor of Liverpool)…

Spoke at TEDxBathUniversity…

Watched Everton beat West Ham (woo!)…

Celebrated the 60th wedding anniversary of our family friends in the trophy room at Anfield…

Captured over 240 hours of footage from The Odyssey Expedition in HD (it takes an hour to capture an hour)…

Finally got around to having Burn’s Night…

Stripped an entire room (including the ceiling) of GODDAMN woodchip wallpaper at my mate’s Stan’s gaff in Fallowfield…

I worked with Casey on getting theodysseyexpedition.com finished, updated grahamdavidhughes.com and set up this ‘ere website, jinjaisland.com. Well, sort of.

Not only that, but everything came together to allow me to film this sequence I’ve been dreaming of for the last five years:

HUGE thanks to Ste Webster (camera, Earth Zoom) and André Ferreira (drone pilot) and everyone who came along on the day to help make this a reality.

Phew! And I’m totally forgetting a bunch of stuff there an’ all. My last night out in Liverpool was spent with Casey, Ste, Cyrus and Graeme – which OF COURSE ended in a drunken mess.

I woke up in Cyrus’s spare room with Casey out for the count. I got picked up by my mum, raced to town to grab the last few bits and pieces that I might need for the next year in Panama, thundered home to, you know, pack – then returned to Cyrus’s to wake a very groggy Casey up from her slumber.

I said my goodbyes to my mum (aww…!), and then Casey and I drove down to London. Our flight to Central America leaves at 5pm tomorrow. This is it baby: The Road To Jinja Island.