One way to the UK?

Well, where to start! My European Union passport FINALLY arrived yesterday, so now I am officially a British Citizen, until 2017 anyway, and also an Aussie citizen indefinitely.

Good news also if you read Mara’s page, as she’s most likely getting her Right of Abode to the UK instead of stuffing around with Visas etc, and then once we’re in London and have first-hand access to her family documents then she too can apply for her EU passport! So things are finally looking a little better on track for us not getting kicked out of the UK on arrival!!!!!

 Just another note too – I had great intentions to do my trial pack over the four day easter weekend….. however, all I really ended up doing was going through my wardrobe and drawers, choosing some ‘better’ things and chucking them all on the loungeroom couch…. where they still are… waiting for all the other things I’m taking to be added to the pile! Mind you I was sick all easter weekend, lucky me, and am just recovering now and after the shitty start to this year, I think I’m going to start super-dosing on vitamins!

Well, here we are already in April and nearly at Easter for 2007. If you’ve also been checking my cousin’s blog, then you’d notice that time has been flying by for us both and we’re both so not ready to take off in May quite just yet — but really we have no choice!!! Thank god Mara’s documents have arrived so her Visa application is now on it’s way to the British Consultate in Canberra…. and the BHC finally called me yesterday regarding processing my British Passport application…. they’ve nearly finished by my credit card declined! Of all the times to not have money in my account!! Thank god for the new “travel usage only” mastercard hey!

So this morning was spent running around to the Butcher to get “fish friday” orders picked up for myself, my boss and another work colleague, then a quick trip to the shop to get the dogs’s their easter presents, then a trip to the bakery to collect my order of Hot Cross Buns for the staff morning tea!

 This weekend I’m going to do a “trial pack” of what I might be taking overseas with me…. I thought it time to do this because about 4 people have asked me this week if I have packed yet — hello??? This is ME! The person who’s last to pack, last to the airport, last on the plane and no doubt i’ll stick to my travel tradition and buy something “to wear on the plane” on the day I’m leaving! But yeah, trial pack is planned and for Mimi and Wizza I’m giving you first pick of all the clothes I’m not taking (otherwise they’re going bye bye) because I figure what I don’t take – I probably won’t want to wear in a year or so when I get back (excluding my suits, formal dresses and jeans collection!).