Wednesday 9th Sept 09

We woke this morning with no clear idea of what we would do with ourselves since the house is now on the market, there is still work to be done but we wanted a day off. We had our coffee and went on line and chatted to mum for a bit on skype then were just about to get ourselves organized when David and Mark arrived. I quickly threw some thing on and ant ran upstairs to get dressed, David had come to do some more work on the garden for us, Mark didn't stay, so i made a coffee for David then he made a start.
I decided to make in roads into sorting out my citizenship, so i phoned the Australian embassy and was told i didn't need to prove citizenship since i had my birth certificate, all i needed to do was get my passport, which could be done in Paris. I filled in the form and printed it off, i needed to get photos for it, Marion informed me this could be done in a shop in Hesdin, then Jacqui R arrived so i chatted with her for a while. Ant had been out on a walk with ruby during this and returned home so i informed him what needed to be done, then only thing i needed now was a person of authority to sign the photos and the form.
I made us all some lunch then headed off in to town to get the photos, very quickly done, then headed back and tried to get hold of the mayor to sign them for me, but he was not available all day. Then i had a look into what we need to do to get ant organized, it is a very long complicated process and incredibly expensive, eight hundred pounds!! but as i said to him it must be really worth it if they make you jump through all these hoops. So we filled in the forms as best we could, we need my aussie passport still to finish it, and looked at the rest of the documentation we will need, proofs we are a committed couple, statements from each other, two statements from aussie residents!! will need to bend mum and aunty m's ears for those, so anyho a long drawn out thing but we will get it all sorted.
I took David back home, he had done a great job in the garden but wants to come back to do a bit more, so that's good, he really is a hard worker, made me feel a little guilty and very lazy. On return ant and i chatted about stuff then got on with a bit of work. Ant made dinner, sausage, roasted potatoes, peas with lardons and shallots, and carrots, he really pushed the boat out!!. We sat down to dinner in front of the tv, watched Vanity Fair then headed off to bed, read for a bit then went to sleep.