Well the ball is certainly rolling now!
Got told yesterday that my application for voluntary redundancy from my current employer has been accepted and i have been penciled in to leave sometime in Q4 this year! (But may get pushed back a few months) Hopefully I should have passed Mod 2 with Bristol by then so assuming I have enough hours in i'll be starting CPL + IR training.
Although I will get an excelent package from them

that I will be able to put forward to help with funding I have to admit that a small lump has appeared in my throat as it dawns on my that its time to "put up or shut up".
Time to start visiting schools and making myself known in my local HSBC!
Give it another 13/14 months and there will be another unemployed fATPL joining the club!