Approved
Aug 1st 2012 | 7:41 pm
#1
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Approved
New passports turned up this week, sent to agent and off to immi and today
Applicant approved
Applicant approved
Aug 1st 2012 | 7:44 pm
#2
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Posts: 7,580
From: Sydney, NSW
Re: Approved
Yay- congratulations!!
Aug 1st 2012 | 9:17 pm
#4
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From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Aug 1st 2012 | 9:29 pm
#6
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From: Ayrshire, Scotland
Re: Approved
Great news! Full steam ahead!!!!
Aug 2nd 2012 | 9:35 am
#8
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Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,154
From: Brisbane northern suburbs
Re: Approved
Sir John Betjeman understood your excitement!
Slough
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
hasn't changed much since 1937, when he wrote that. I worked there for 9 years on the industrial estate (1973-1982) and the day we left for Australia was great - nerve-wracking, but great.
Slough
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
hasn't changed much since 1937, when he wrote that. I worked there for 9 years on the industrial estate (1973-1982) and the day we left for Australia was great - nerve-wracking, but great.
Last edited by KJCherokee; Aug 2nd 2012 at 9:39 am.
Aug 2nd 2012 | 1:48 pm
#9
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Re: Approved
Thanks for the message KJ 
Aug 2nd 2012 | 10:02 pm
#10
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Posts: 20,821
From: Brisbane
Re: Approved
Congratulations Old Sparkles!
