We had our medicals at Slough yesterday.

Slough is a bit of a jaunt from Bournemouth but the only one closer is Winchester and they only seem to do the immigration medicals on a Tuesday and then not all Tuesdays. The earliest they could fit us in was 19 November.

Phoned around and enquired at Oxford. They do the whole thing in house: medical exam, bloods and x-rays, but the receptionist was adamant that I would have to undergo a cervical smear test!!!

I told her that my own Doc was willing to supply a letter stating that I was up to date with them and that my last test was negative but she was adamant!

So I phoned Slough. Lovely receptionist. Explained everything very clearly. Was as horrified as me about the smear test and said I would most certainly not need one. So Slough It was.

Nice friendly place just one Doc and the receptionist.

The practice is in an ordinary house and the waiting room is a sitting room complete with family photos. There were a couple of newspapers and lots of magazines to pass the time.

We had our appointments at 11:am and They had booked us chest x-rays at the local Nuffield hospital for 2:30pm.

As the last of us was being seen the receptionist came through and said that as we all seemed to fit and well and the exams were not taking long she would phone and bring our appointments forward.

So all told complete meds, bloods and x-rays for four of us done and dusted by 1:30pm.

So that is the last thing done. Just got to wait for police checks to come back and mail them to CHC London and then it's back to the waiting.