Jam you sound much more positive. Dh had the same terms when made redundant a year ago, and tbh it was the only way we could have done this moving overseas and setting himself up in the job he really wanted to do. The trick is for dh to keep upbeat during his 3 months gardening leave, use all the help they throw at you and stop and think about what you both want out of life. This is an opportunity, I'm telling you!
PS forget Dubai, come to Kenya, it's nicer. Actually if your dh does go to Dubai for a bit and you went too, I could pop over to see you!!
On a totally random aside, I am noticing a distinct correlation in the answers to the stupid absorbing 'note' of MKG's. Here are just a few of my findings:
The majority of us like mint choc chip ice cream.
Purple is a favourite crayon colour.
We are all far too woosy to think about jumping.
No one uses mousepads anymore.
Pink and I watched the same atrocious film only she remembered the name of it and I didn't.
None of us is sarcastic at all, oh no, oh no.
Nearly all of us still have our tonsils.
We all love MKG.
We all met our other halves either at work, pplace of study or in the pub!
Interesting findings to date. Do we all have AF at the same time too?