LittleBirdyScraps

Way Back When

I have just been through my photos, inspired by this post which I found through the UKScrappers blog-a-thon, and found a picture of my children on a beach in Ireland, where we stayed in 1999.  

 

As you can see, they are all without clothes, and the beauty of this photo is that you can't see a thing!   I can't remember what this beach is called, altho we have a video of this holiday and probably there will be something on that.  I need to get all our videos transferred onto DVD, but that's another story...!

More of the continuing saaaaaga...

Oh. My. God.  Do you know what happened just after I typed that last post?  Do you WANT to know what happened just after I typed that last post?  No?  Well, tough.

You know I had to go back and resubmit the passport application twice? And you know it still wasn't right and I had to get a full birth certificate?  And you know I put the birth certificate that cost me £27.50 in the recycling by mistake and had to rescue it at 5.30 am in my pjs?  And you know the photos were no good and I had to redo them?  And you know I had to get my friend to come round and sign the new photos?  Well, I lost one.

Hahahahahahahahaha. 

It was on the top shelf of my New Desk (which I will show you at some point I expect).  Only when I rang Daughter to check that everything was there, it had gone.  And I had absolutely no recollection of putting it anywhere else.  (You know I'm going mad in a suspiciously menopausal sort of way....?)

Sooooooo.....We got in the car last night and went to Asda to use their photobooth cos at least then the background is the right colour.  And it wasn't working.

Hahahahahahahahaha.

But the one in Tesco Express was.  So we got some photos.  And I took then round to my friend to sign cos obviously my man's suggestion that I stop bothering the woman and forge her signature was totally out of order, ahem.

So.  The woman in the post office tried to say that It's The Wrong Form For A Start because she thought it was for a baby.  I swear they're trained to p*** off the customer.  But now it has gone.  And if it doesn't get back in time not only have I paid 50 quid for a passport Daughter doesn't need, and £27.50 for a birth certificate I could have waited for, but Daughter will not be able to go on the trip that cost me £80.

Hahahahahahahaha.

The Continuing Saaaaga

Okay, that title is for those of you who are familiar with 'Pigs In Space' as brought to us by Jim Henson, probably about 100 years ago now...

Anyway, I need you to wish me luck, keep your fingers crossed etc etc, as I am going to try yet again to get Daughter's passport today.

Having obtained the birth certificate - and rescued it from the recycling, as detailed in a previous post - I then had to reprint the photos which you may recall were not taken against the correct colour background.  My printer has now run out of ink so until the next lot arrives in the post I can't do any more.  If these are no good we are in big trouble.

Look, here's one.

 

And while I was printing them out, Daughter said: 'Don't we need to get them signed?'  Yes, of course we did.  Cue frantic phone calls on failing battery in attempt to obtain home phone number of countersignatory who wasn't answering her mobile and for all I knew had gone away for Easter.  Only she hadn't, and came round to my house and signed the photo.

We now only have about four weeks to get the passport.  I had planned to make the application in person, but apparently you can't do this for first-time passports.  They claim that it only takes two weeks if you use the check-and-send option.  They also claim to answer your emails, although I've yet to see evidence of that.

Hopefully, then, I will be able to report later that the passport application is on its way and everything is the right colour, length, has been filled in properly etc.

Watch this space...(Pigs In Space...)