Application was successfully received "before 8:32AM on Monday 14th May".
Yahoooo!

DONE!
Dusted.
Finished.
Posted.
Decks cleared... OK - not that last one.
Paperwork all double-checked, cross-checked, doors set to manual etc. etc.
Took it down the post office this afternoon. Special delivery. Arrives on the appropriate desk before 12 Monday.
Tonight I party (mushroom omlette).
Tomorrow I start worrying about the state of my house.

Distant lightning most of this evening. Blurred faint flashes in the distance. Lights dimming - keeping you on the edge of the seat.
Where's this rain come from? Yesterday they forecast us a lovely sunny stretch until next week. But then I don't think we've had four days without rain since last August - it's gotta keep its record up.
Tired tonight - big meeting tomorrow at work, worked til half 9 tonight to get stuff done for it.
Early to bed, early to rise.
Damn forms - closer still, tantalisingly close now.

If there's one thing worse than any of that, it's carefully composing a blog entry, pressing publish...
and seeing it vanish into a wall of errors - knowing you're going to have to think of all those clever words - again.

Forms, forms, forms.
Lovingly handcrafted text, painstakingly lettered into boxes that are carefully constructed to be too small.
Where were you in 1986?
Tell us everything you told us on that form... again.
Prove how much money you've got.
My eyeballs are sweating from pouring over all this stuff yet again.
Gotta crack it all or I'll never emigrate.
It's closer every day.

Zzzzzzzzzz - gonna be a beautiful day tomorrow. And I'm going to be asleep through half of it.

My blog postings, disappearing into the ether...