Getting tense now - when are we off?

Man, it's so close. Today Pete will start the daily call schedule to our pilot, checking out the weather forecast and likely time to go.
Looking at the 5 day forecasts, Sunday might be the best option, but Satuday's not looking so bad either. Friday has some pretty strong winds blowing and waves in excess of 2.5m so to my mind if there's time to skip a day, Friday would be my choice. I've attached the forecast site I just looked at, showing Sunday's best-bet stats. You flick this to Friday and you'll see what I mean about being a day to skip. Look at the windspeed...
http://www.myweather2.com/Marine/United-Kingdom/English-Channel-Western.aspx?sday=5
Current water temp is shown on the link here. If you zoom in on Europe and then France and aim your mouse button to the coordinates 51.1 degrees North 1.81 degrees East and click, you should end up around Calais. Click the yellow icon to the north east of Calais and you'll get the current water temp. Looks to be about 65 degrees Fahrenheit or c.17 degrees Celsius.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

My kit is in neat piles in the spare room. Now it just needs to be bagged up to stay dry and put into a kit-bag. We food shopped last night, getting stuff for sandwiches, soups, nuts, chocolate bars and also the food coming home which is a little more luxurious. Thinking chicken salad, potato salad, some cous cous - all good nutritional stuff.

I'll keep you all posted with what we hear coming out of Dover.
Incidentally i'm scraping at 50% of my Just Giving target for the RNLI - at 725 quid now, not to be sniffed at and I reckon there's still a few out there who are actually waiting to see proof of success before opening their wallets....which is understandable given the failure rate of channel swims.
Happy trails!