Hi Cate, There's a lot of talk now about being British and Britishness. As an outside observer I consider to be British is to be a member of the Monty Python club. Since my wife got Alzheimer's I have, and am experiencing situation comedy, and seeing it so helps me no end. When I took my wife for her EEG I had to outline her condition; stiff, can't move nor speak. The Expert asks me "Can she feed herself?" Felt like saying:"Ask her"
I have had two letters from the local hospital, one yesterday Sat. One to change my wife's appointment to the 1st Feb 10.15 at the Stroke Clinic. The Other for me to attend the X-ray dep ref gall stones, on 1st Feb 14.00hrs. One is signed by an Appointments Clerk, the other by an Appointments Officer! I wonder if they all work at that Booking Center, I couldn't get through to?
People think the Passport and Immigration Office is a comedy of errors. Well I always knew that. I recent years our daughter was refused a British Passport, because she was born in a Military Hospital in Germany, of an English mother and serving Irish father. She was refused a British birth certificate, while the Irish questioned why I was serving in the British forces. Result, German birth certificate!
Years later when she applied for a passport she was rejected, in spite of providing the office with my British Passport and letter granting me British Citizenship ( they needed to post me to Bahrain) She was married to a senior serving REGIMENT man and her eldest son has since completed two tours in Iraq and is shortly off to Afghanistan. She now has an Irish Passport, but could get a German one! You just gotta laigh. Padraig