I can't believe our application's been in 2 years this month! When we received our AOR saying not to expect to hear anything for 36 months I remember looking at my OH and saying - "that's forever - we'll never get there".

Now 2 years on I'm working my way into a minor panic - there's so much to do and so little time to do it all The advice to just get on with your life and use the time effectively was the best! Now that the whole thing seems more real, I'm stuck into my French classes and am crazy busy filling out application forms to join my professional body equivalent over there.

It's gonna take 5 years just to carboot my house full of rubbish

So any of you who've just begun the wait - have hope, it really does fly by.

We submitted our app in Dec 05 so just behind you. I also cannot beleive how quickly time has gone. Still some time to go yet as we had a 39 month quote but I look at it as being lots of time to plan stuff and sort ourself out.

when you've done the medicals and are waiting on the decision, time almost seems to stop

Where are you hoping to move to?

I've just started my second year of French at an evening class in a local school and will be doing a GCSE next May/June. How about you? Are you going to an evening class?

I've got the TEF book and tapes and had to gulp in quiet desperation at the standard required to even get to the basic level for points. Still...if I keep plugging away then hopefully by the time our application is being processed then I'll have a few points to add.