To the DubDopers: Have fun because...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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…I’m not going to be able to make it there.

The stone-hearted UK Immigration and Nationality Department is going to take my passport 14 days earlier than I was previously told for my visa extension. There are also further complications with the extension that are too difficult to go into detail about. Suffice it to say that, under the “caring, listening” New Labour government, I run the risk of being deported if I don’t comply. I’d lose my flat, job (well, I don’t care about my job so much :)) but more importantly any chance of reuniting with my wife.

So, some regrets are in order:

yojimbo: Thanks again for the offer to stay in your flat. I’ll have to make the same offer to you if we ever have an Ox[ford]Dopefest. On the bright side: you get half of Coldfire’s beer!

Coldfire: If you’re moving to London, we’ll have to meet up there sometime–it’ll give me an excuse to do more research in the Library (half of which time I end up spending in Indian restaurants anyway).

ruadh: Have fun at the Ireland match. Hopefully you’ll have recovered by then after the Dons take points of Celtic at Pittodrie this Saturday (we’re on a roll after beating the Tangerines last week) :wink:

To everyone else who’s going to be there: Have lots of fun, eat lots of “fush ‘n’ chups” and have an extra Guinness for me. Not that any of you will need any encouragement :wink:

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:frowning: Duke I’ll take you up on that offer sometime :slight_smile:

So just me and Coldfire :eek: no escape from Rush.

Cya at some stage.

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Duke, I’m so sorry that you can’t make it! Couldn’t we come up with some wacky scheme to get you into Ireland? People sneak into the US all the time, so I couldn’t be that hard…:wink:

Send me your addy, so I can send you a postcard and some photos. And even though you didn’t offer, I’d be happy to come visit you sometime. :smiley:

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Duke, I’m so sorry you won’t be able to make it. When I heard you were coming I started paying attention to your posts and I was starting to look foreward to meeting you. Bummer.

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Woohoo!! More beer for us!

Seriously now. That sucks, Duke. Tony Blur is messing with his civilians! He’d better be paying attention to his personal hygene, from what I saw in the papers :wink:

And rest assured, we’ll do a beer in London sometime!

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What a shame! I hope things get sorted quickly, Duke.