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Jul. 23rd, 2015 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljOur weather has been very spotty and cool lately with the sun popping up with no warning now and then. It's hard to plan anything. Saturday is the Pride parade and I wanted to go. The forecast is 40% possibility of showers. That could mean it will clear up and be really nice. It's happened before. Meanwhile, My mother is staying overnight Saturday with her cousin and wants me to stay at her place to keep the cat company. She (the cat) would probably be just fine on her own for a day I suppose but it doesn't matter. I'll have the use of the car and on Sunday I think i'll do some errands and get some groceries in. If Saturday seems like it will be decent, Mom will pick me up in the morning and we'll drive her to her cousin's place. I can then drive back downtown and see if i can find a place to park relatively near where the parade is going to be and walk over to watch. If parking is going to be a pain, i could park further away and take a bus or just skip it altogether. I don't go every year but i do enjoy it when i do go. Pride parades are always really happy and colourful and joyful.
Plans are coming together for our road trip in September to Northumberland. We have a hotel booked and that's the main thing. We're going to stay in a small seaside village but it's close to Holy Island where the old abbey of Lindisfarne is. There's also a couple of castles very close by and we are planning to drive across and see at least one of the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall. Other day trips may include a drive out to the Snake Pass and a trip to Blackpool. There's a possibility of a trip by train to Liverpool but it might be a bit much to squeeze that in. hanging out with friends, seeing the Jethro Tull Rock Opera, visiting the old Corrie set one last time before it closes to the public, maybe a movie, some shopping. Being together. :)
Graham has all of his paperwork back and after one more check over the list, should be posting it to me by the end of the week. That means I should get it not much later than the end of July and when I do, I'll put my last bits and pieces with it and make an appointment with the immigration consultant and see what's next. He's going to set up all the forms and send the whole application in, not sure what else I need to sign or give him, besides the next installment $$ That means, I hope, the sponsorship application should be in by early August and then we wait. I want to get average timelines for, first, the approval for the sponsorship and then for the permanent residency application. I know overall it can take 6 or 8 months or so from start to finish. It's getting exciting now that the next step is just about here.
Plans are coming together for our road trip in September to Northumberland. We have a hotel booked and that's the main thing. We're going to stay in a small seaside village but it's close to Holy Island where the old abbey of Lindisfarne is. There's also a couple of castles very close by and we are planning to drive across and see at least one of the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall. Other day trips may include a drive out to the Snake Pass and a trip to Blackpool. There's a possibility of a trip by train to Liverpool but it might be a bit much to squeeze that in. hanging out with friends, seeing the Jethro Tull Rock Opera, visiting the old Corrie set one last time before it closes to the public, maybe a movie, some shopping. Being together. :)
Graham has all of his paperwork back and after one more check over the list, should be posting it to me by the end of the week. That means I should get it not much later than the end of July and when I do, I'll put my last bits and pieces with it and make an appointment with the immigration consultant and see what's next. He's going to set up all the forms and send the whole application in, not sure what else I need to sign or give him, besides the next installment $$ That means, I hope, the sponsorship application should be in by early August and then we wait. I want to get average timelines for, first, the approval for the sponsorship and then for the permanent residency application. I know overall it can take 6 or 8 months or so from start to finish. It's getting exciting now that the next step is just about here.
