Ancestry visa and a beautiful baby boy makes his entrance....

Please see my friends' beautiful baby boy Ethan, which I was astounded to learn this morning, is now 3 months old! My time flies when you are finishing the "never-ending-law-degree"...

Welcome little Ethan :)

Well, I have my UK ancestry visa, which means I can live and work in the UK for up to 5 years :)

This gives me a few more options, come and go from Sudan a bit and not feel so trapped there. They make you get visas for everything - a visa to enter of course, then you must register your entrance within 3 days, you must get a permanent resident visa if you want to stay longer than a month, you need to get a visa to take photos, a visa to travel outside Khartoum and if you want to leave, a visa to leave the country - it is all rather boring.... With this at least I can escape from time to time.....

We are waiting to see if Ahmed's visa comes through, fingers XX.

Meanwhile my days are filled with reading Harry Potter, walking to my brothers house, which he is renovating, and playing with my puppies. But less than a week now, and I am sure that time will go in a blink of an eye....

The mousetrap??

Well, it looks like I have a visa...but I would like to hold it in my hot little hand. Not possible as yet.

I am off to the UK on 1st August. My darling Ahmed will meet me there, as long as he passes all the visa assessments. A bit dicey in the current climate. Here's hoping...

We will spend 3 weeks there and go back to Sudan. I have not been to the UK for 20 years - I wonder if the mousetrap is still running.. We plan to visit some good friends of mine in Leicester and hopefully if our agendas match, meet up with Margaret, my law honours supervisor in London. Bit of fun. Maybe home via Cairo.

More later...

Visas and other sharp objects....

Ummm - what can I say? Just as I was about to fly out, Ahmed rang to say the visa had fallen through...ummmmm....how quickly can I cancel flights? Accomodation? Collections from Heathrow? mmmmm - that is the joy of Sudan..

So here I sit in my mother's front room, all packed and nowhere to go, nothing much to do..I have my puppies, the best consolation..see photos.... to the left is Oscar and the right Zoe..


Not much I can do. Ahmed is still trying a few option, I am looking at SVP again, but it is Uni holidays and not much going on. The British Council cant help me. I did get an offer to teach primary kids for 10 months.............how long did I need to think about that one? I think I would rather clean toilets, well maybe not Sudanese toilets!


I have also tried getting a little contract work here. There could be a chance for some tutoring at Canberra Uni and an HR role at a law firm. Could for the $$$$

But for the time being I spend my days tring to start an exercise regime (with mixed success), trying to avoid buying a house (those who know me will know I do this when I am a bit bored!) and trying to keep it all together...


Having a rest has been good. I tend to race around like a mad thing (I was going to write that lovely Australian expression - blue-assed fly - but thought, mmmm, maybe only aussie's would get it..) So just being here is good. My brother and his partner have bought an old barn that they are converting to a residence and so I spend my days up there taking nails out of floor boards, scouring the countryside with them for second hand windows and watching in awe as they are put in. So quite relaxing really..


OK, hopefully a more eventful post next time...