Jonners' Canterbury Tales » University

jonners99 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:06:20 +0000

This morning we awoke in my flat bright and early and I finished my Ted Dekker trilogy. While there may have been times when it didn’t make much sense to me and where it seemingly didn’t make much sense to him either it was a good series of books and I enjoyed reading them. Seems to be the way with Ted Dekker that his books confuse him at some point in writing them and they lag a bit in the middle as he works it out. Enjoyable though and I will keep reading. At 9:30 Beth and I left my flat for the penultimate time to go to the Home Office in Croydon. We started our journey with the 170 to Clapham Junction and then took the train to East Croydon leading to a five minute walk. I was nervous about this trip, we get it wrong and Beth gets deported and I am stuck with a flat in Canterbury I can’t pay for. We had heard many people talking about how difficult it would be for us to get the visa.
We walked up to the building and queued with others to get into the building. Once inside we went through security who checked we had no bombs or whatever and then joined another queue which took 25 minutes. We eventually got to a desk where we registered our intent to get a visa and were then told to go upstairs for billing. We paid our £595 for the application and then registered again with another lady. Next Beth had her biometric information taken. Basically from the end of our time queuing to this point took 20 minutes. We then had to wait in a reception for twenty minutes before we saw a case worker who just took some of our information to be photocopied and then said we had the visa, no questioning, and no checking of finances, no asking about my employment just a simple photocopying. We went and got lunch and by the time we had finished eating Beth’s passport was completed and we could leave. It really was that easy. Two hours after entering we left again.
When we arrived back at my flat I cleaned the kitchen and my room to the best of my ability (which isn’t that great) and then my parents arrived and I moved out of my flat. On arriving home we played Boom Blox with my parents and waited for Beth’s dad to arrive. He eventually did and so we showed off our Paris pictures to the assembled parents before retiring to bed.

jonners99 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:05:28 +0000

This morning Beth and I woke late, well Beth did. I sat in our other room and read my book for an hour before she appeared. We had another of the best breakfasts ever at the hotel and then went and bought a print from a street vendor of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. We finished packing our things and then got the taxi to the train station. Lunch was from a café and was alright. The train home took two and half hours and we then had to tube across London to Hammersmith to get back to my flat. We had Mama’s pizza with Tim and Danielle and then watched Keeping Mum with them which was relatively funny.

jonners99 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:45:24 +0000

I had my fourth to last day of work today. It is strange to think that next Monday I will be unemployed (temporarily) and it will really show the buildup to the wedding. Work was dull again today as there was once again very little to do. I was glad when 5:30 rolled around and I could vacate. Dinner was pie and was enjoyed while watching Spaced. I followed this with Click and Top Gear and then started work on the new theme. Let me know what you think of it. The aim was to make the sidebar less cluttered and I think it works. I also apologise that this is my first real blog for a month, the rest are coming.

jonners99 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:43:21 +0000

I spent most of today filling in job applications but the time that wasn’t spent on this task was on working on small niggling issues across my websites… fun. In the afternoon Beth scarpered to Horsham so I used the rest of the day to finish the brilliant Half Life 2 which I have also now reviewed in the gaming section. I believe I was playing until 10pm at which point I decided to jack it in and go to sleep as I had nothing else to do.

jonners99 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:45:48 +0000

Today I had work, it was worth it as after I finished I got to have meatballs with my gorgeous fiancee. Its been ages since I had meatballs and they are great. We followed this up with the final two episodes of this season of Doctor Who which was alright but I felt that it wasn’t as good as the finale to season 3 with the Master in it. Ah well its always nice to see Daleks get their butts kicked and it also finally got rid of Rose and Donna. Fingers crossed for a good companion next series (not that Donna was particularly bad).