"You've applied for your Permanent Resident (PR) visa and know it could take up to two years to receive it. You've been waiting what seems like an eternity and you don't feel like waiting any longer. So you've decided to throw caution to the wind and leave early to start your new life in Canada." Thelma advises you to think again, and suggests ways to use the wait profitably.
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Monthly Archives: August 2004
As I look out of the office window here in Berkshire, all I see is the drizzling nasty rain that pre-empts the English Bank Holiday. Forget what they said at school, Keats got it wrong with all that misty mellowness nonsense. Nevertheless, let’s not bellyache as it is festival time with my town, Reading, smugly proclaiming itself “home of festivals” with both WOMAD and Carling.
Whatever the hype, WOMAD astounds with its international line-up and Carling, to its credit, pulls in
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The Expat Pub
For the British expat armchair sports fan, time abroad is full of frustration. Life sometimes feels like an endless sequence of thwarted television-viewing ambitions, punctuated only occasionally by the highs and lows that are available daily to fans at home.
The problem is one of access. Here in Switzerland we can receive television from several countries but inexplicably the Swiss, Austrians, Italians and Germans all fail to show either cricket or English football. Do these people not realise what they are
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