It's in the book!

We went to bed early on Sunday night, feeling completely knackered, only to realise that Michael had train tickets booked to go to London first thing on Monday morning and we'd completely forgotten about it! Cue the both of us getting up and sorting out the paperwork for Ella's Australian passport application, booking a taxi and printing out Ella's photograph. Predictably we had problems printing out a photo of the right size and adequate realisation - not surprising when you consider we were doing it bleary eyed at 1am.

Anyway, off Michael went to London and not only did he initiate Ella's passport application (you have to do it in person at Australia House) but he was also able to get my visa put into my passport and bring home all of our documentation. So while we were all very tired yesterday evening, we were both happy. All I have to do now is to renew Ella's UK passport which expires in February 2007 - it would be a good idea to have that sorted out before we leave the UK! And at least it means she'll have two passports with a recent photograph of her in them rather than the existing picture in her UK passport which shows her aged two weeks old...