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You don't need to do anything.  Just be sure to be at the airport waiting for her.  Nothing worse than getting off a long flight and your ride isn't there!   ;D
Ugh I know! It happened to me once! She got held up on the road. Not a nice feeling! Maybe I should leave now    

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Heehee! Thank you!  ;D  You like cute? I'll give you cute!  ;)  This is her as a baby, with her sister.  :D


Sooooo sweet!

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Aww! Hello Tyco! Here's my Rocco doing his favourite thing. (He used to he scared of water!)




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Another cutie!!


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Aww! Hello Tyco! Here's my Rocco doing his favourite thing. (He used to he scared of water!)




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He's adorable!  ;D


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Ok so I posted this last night and then freaked and removed it, cos was generally really anxious last night. But this thread is full of creative sharing and writing is my thing so am sharing again and probably won't remove thus time Lol

Feel like sharing a couple of my poems... First one written a year before I met my wife, and at the beginning of the end of my first marriage, on flight back from writing trip to Chicago, first time I'd been to US. Second, just after I met her and at start of divorce.

I haven't shared any writing for a good year and my blog has been offline, but this forum has been a huge support to me and i just felt like I wanted to share something of what all this means to me.

Chasing Dawn

Sunsets over Michigan
we climb 40000 feet colder
overtaking night to light
new shores
impatient for the day
now that eyes
open
drink in
CRY OUT
for more
dawns
too many missed
too few remain
tantalising
as they unveil
shadows
laying us naked
to our begin.



Fierce

For the women I love – love is never lost

Patient and kind, perhaps, but love is fierce
Striking down, dredging up
She hasn’t finished with you yet
Because you still don’t know
Completely

She delights in everything you ever were
Everything you never were
She understands who you will be
As you resist, just a little
Still .

She laughs out loud when you ‘Can’t *bleep***g stand them’
Stands firm by your side when, “They did what?!’
Nudges you back in balance
And lives to see your joy
Yes yours

Love forgives ‘cos what else is there?
She knows the worst of you
Draws the best in you
When all else fails she simply sits by you
Until you re-member

Love does not grasp
Yet when she takes hold
You may as well throw back you arms
‘Cos nothing and no-one will stand in her way
Until you re-member

Soft, love is not
Though she can dress as a warm blanket
Or a bowl of soup when you ‘don’t feel so good’
But she will take you or let you go
Before you know you are ready

Fearless, love reaches in to crack you open
You cannot block her, she’s right there inside you
‘But I WAS open’
You haven’t seen anything yet
Because you STILL don’t know

Love learns
How you like your tea
How you micro-research every purchase, or you don’t
How you fail, how you rise
Still 

Love grabs you, pulls you to her
Dare look into her eyes
And you may as well throw back your arms
‘Cos you are hers
Completely

Love is an unfamilar voice in your head
Who tells you it’s OK, you’re OK
Laughs when ‘You did what?!’
And fondly steers you back on course
Until you re-member

Love wants to play with you forever and a day
She is boundless and bounding and bonds like no other
And she will fight you to the death
When everything you want is
To give up the fight in her arms

Love gives you pleasure
She strokes the air around you until every cell wakes up
And your cries of ‘mercy’ are drowned by throes of passion
Until you re-member
Completely
Surrender
Completely
Because you STILL don’t remember
Completely
You are YOURS
Met Nov 2015
Married 11 April 17
Online visa app 24 April 2017 (Priority)
Biometrics 5th May 2017
App tracked and received Sheffiled 10th May 2017
Email confirming receipt (of online application) 25th May 2017
Email asking for passport, appendix 2 etc (which has all been sent) 30th May 2017 (Discovered solicitor may have advised to send to wrong processing centre address - letters, and phone calls - still unclear).
Confirmed receipt of docs 17th July
Return label requested and emailed 17th July
Decision email 26th July
Visa 28th July


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Aww! Hello Tyco! Here's my Rocco doing his favourite thing. (He used to he scared of water!)




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Aw Rocco is cute adorable, he looks at home in the water now :). Tyco doesn't like getting wet unless its roasting hot outside.
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Ok so I posted this last night and then freaked and removed it, cos was generally really anxious last night. But this thread is full of creative sharing and writing is my thing so am sharing again and probably won't remove thus time Lol

Feel like sharing a couple of my poems... First one written a year before I met my wife, and at the beginning of the end of my first marriage, on flight back from writing trip to Chicago, first time I'd been to US. Second, just after I met her and at start of divorce.

I haven't shared any writing for a good year and my blog has been offline, but this forum has been a huge support to me and i just felt like I wanted to share something of what all this means to me.

Chasing Dawn

Sunsets over Michigan
we climb 40000 feet colder
overtaking night to light
new shores
impatient for the day
now that eyes
open
drink in
CRY OUT
for more
dawns
too many missed
too few remain
tantalising
as they unveil
shadows
laying us naked
to our begin.



Fierce

For the women I love – love is never lost

Patient and kind, perhaps, but love is fierce
Striking down, dredging up
She hasn’t finished with you yet
Because you still don’t know
Completely

She delights in everything you ever were
Everything you never were
She understands who you will be
As you resist, just a little
Still .

She laughs out loud when you ‘Can’t *bleep***g stand them’
Stands firm by your side when, “They did what?!’
Nudges you back in balance
And lives to see your joy
Yes yours

Love forgives ‘cos what else is there?
She knows the worst of you
Draws the best in you
When all else fails she simply sits by you
Until you re-member

Love does not grasp
Yet when she takes hold
You may as well throw back you arms
‘Cos nothing and no-one will stand in her way
Until you re-member

Soft, love is not
Though she can dress as a warm blanket
Or a bowl of soup when you ‘don’t feel so good’
But she will take you or let you go
Before you know you are ready

Fearless, love reaches in to crack you open
You cannot block her, she’s right there inside you
‘But I WAS open’
You haven’t seen anything yet
Because you STILL don’t know

Love learns
How you like your tea
How you micro-research every purchase, or you don’t
How you fail, how you rise
Still

Love grabs you, pulls you to her
Dare look into her eyes
And you may as well throw back your arms
‘Cos you are hers
Completely

Love is an unfamilar voice in your head
Who tells you it’s OK, you’re OK
Laughs when ‘You did what?!’
And fondly steers you back on course
Until you re-member

Love wants to play with you forever and a day
She is boundless and bounding and bonds like no other
And she will fight you to the death
When everything you want is
To give up the fight in her arms

Love gives you pleasure
She strokes the air around you until every cell wakes up
And your cries of ‘mercy’ are drowned by throes of passion
Until you re-member
Completely
Surrender
Completely
Because you STILL don’t remember
Completely
You are YOURS

Reading this was so emotional and thought provoking. Absolutely brilliant and touching, quite the poet :)
Application submitted: 2nd June 2017
Biometric appointment: 9th June 2017
Documents mailed: 9th June 2017
UPS Delivery Confirmation: 12th June 2017
Email saying it's arrived in Sheffield: 13th June 2017
Decision email: 28th July 2017
Visa Delivered: 31st July 2017 - APPROVED!
Arrived in UK: 6th August 2017
FLR(M) Application Submitted: 6th March 2020
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Reading this was so emotional and thought provoking. Absolutely brilliant and touching, quite the poet :)
Thanks!

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Email confirming receipt (of online application) 25th May 2017
Email asking for passport, appendix 2 etc (which has all been sent) 30th May 2017 (Discovered solicitor may have advised to send to wrong processing centre address - letters, and phone calls - still unclear).
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I put down grass seeds on Saturday and they are ALREADY sprouting!!  I'm so sick of the rain but am a tiny bit happy for it now!


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I put down grass seeds on Saturday and they are ALREADY sprouting!!  I'm so sick of the rain but am a tiny bit happy for it now!
Excellent! That's quick. Yeah i have been liking the rain cos of garden too.

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I absolutely love the idea of putting up the wedding cards and the fresh cut flowers, this is so romantic :)

Well, I always go OTT on gifts so I'm trying to not go overboard but I just wanted to get him some basic things like showers gels, hair stuff, blackcurrant sweets (his fave), then I've bought some aftershave, his favorite yankee candle and I got him a new phone with a case. Naturally with the cupcakes  ;D

The scones you mentioned are a brilliant idea, I can never get mine to be soft - They end up like giant pellets lol
Here's the flowers from my garden

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Online visa app 24 April 2017 (Priority)
Biometrics 5th May 2017
App tracked and received Sheffiled 10th May 2017
Email confirming receipt (of online application) 25th May 2017
Email asking for passport, appendix 2 etc (which has all been sent) 30th May 2017 (Discovered solicitor may have advised to send to wrong processing centre address - letters, and phone calls - still unclear).
Confirmed receipt of docs 17th July
Return label requested and emailed 17th July
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Welcome home signs?!
Hampers?!
Oh help!

Why didnt anyone mention this in the last three months?!

Americans aren't obnoxious! Just a little overstated  ;)

I was planning to take scones to the airport. It'll be late for me but will feel like 5pm for her.

I was going to put up our wedding cards and cut fresh flowers from the garden.

I have been working on the house and garden for six months though to get it looking nice for her/ us.  :D

What goes in a welcome hamper?! Oh dear oh dear oh dear

If it makes you feel better, I won't get any of those things when I arrive. My fiancé is very sweet but doesn't think about things like this, will just be happy to have me over.  :D  ;D
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Received: 30 May 17
Decision Email: 9 August 17
Decision: Granted
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Arrived in London: 6 Sept 17
Married: 31 Oct 17
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If it makes you feel better, I won't get any of those things when I arrive. My fiancé is very sweet but doesn't think about things like this, will just be happy to have me over.  :D  ;D
Aww - I guess being together is all that really counts.  

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Biometrics 5th May 2017
App tracked and received Sheffiled 10th May 2017
Email confirming receipt (of online application) 25th May 2017
Email asking for passport, appendix 2 etc (which has all been sent) 30th May 2017 (Discovered solicitor may have advised to send to wrong processing centre address - letters, and phone calls - still unclear).
Confirmed receipt of docs 17th July
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Ok so I posted this last night and then freaked and removed it, cos was generally really anxious last night. But this thread is full of creative sharing and writing is my thing so am sharing again and probably won't remove thus time Lol

Feel like sharing a couple of my poems... First one written a year before I met my wife, and at the beginning of the end of my first marriage, on flight back from writing trip to Chicago, first time I'd been to US. Second, just after I met her and at start of divorce.

I haven't shared any writing for a good year and my blog has been offline, but this forum has been a huge support to me and i just felt like I wanted to share something of what all this means to me.

Chasing Dawn

Sunsets over Michigan
we climb 40000 feet colder
overtaking night to light
new shores
impatient for the day
now that eyes
open
drink in
CRY OUT
for more
dawns
too many missed
too few remain
tantalising
as they unveil
shadows
laying us naked
to our begin.



Fierce

For the women I love – love is never lost

Patient and kind, perhaps, but love is fierce
Striking down, dredging up
She hasn’t finished with you yet
Because you still don’t know
Completely

She delights in everything you ever were
Everything you never were
She understands who you will be
As you resist, just a little
Still .

She laughs out loud when you ‘Can’t *bleep***g stand them’
Stands firm by your side when, “They did what?!’
Nudges you back in balance
And lives to see your joy
Yes yours

Love forgives ‘cos what else is there?
She knows the worst of you
Draws the best in you
When all else fails she simply sits by you
Until you re-member

Love does not grasp
Yet when she takes hold
You may as well throw back you arms
‘Cos nothing and no-one will stand in her way
Until you re-member

Soft, love is not
Though she can dress as a warm blanket
Or a bowl of soup when you ‘don’t feel so good’
But she will take you or let you go
Before you know you are ready

Fearless, love reaches in to crack you open
You cannot block her, she’s right there inside you
‘But I WAS open’
You haven’t seen anything yet
Because you STILL don’t know

Love learns
How you like your tea
How you micro-research every purchase, or you don’t
How you fail, how you rise
Still

Love grabs you, pulls you to her
Dare look into her eyes
And you may as well throw back your arms
‘Cos you are hers
Completely

Love is an unfamilar voice in your head
Who tells you it’s OK, you’re OK
Laughs when ‘You did what?!’
And fondly steers you back on course
Until you re-member

Love wants to play with you forever and a day
She is boundless and bounding and bonds like no other
And she will fight you to the death
When everything you want is
To give up the fight in her arms

Love gives you pleasure
She strokes the air around you until every cell wakes up
And your cries of ‘mercy’ are drowned by throes of passion
Until you re-member
Completely
Surrender
Completely
Because you STILL don’t remember
Completely
You are YOURS

Wow! That's beautiful.


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Here's the flowers from my garden

Those are just lovely, you can't beat anything straight out of the garden.  :)(except perhaps for a wet dog!)


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