Windrush, 2

I told the story here of the three months of stress I endured between the nightmare in Prague airport and the point where I was granted settled status in the UK under the Windrush scheme. The bureaucrats had done their bit. I had to do the last bit without help; juggling computer, phone, Home Office app, and passport and muttering the appropriate incantations where necessary to have this “new” (really 55-years-old) status linked to my passport as an e-visa. After all the flashing lights, you may well believe that I was not entirely convinced that the thing would work, so I decided to try it out. We took a day trip to Brussels by Eurostar yesterday. (The plan was originally Paris, but that didn’t seem like such a good idea just at present.) So an early start, out of the house by 6:30 to get he 9:00 train from St Pancras. All the transport links worked well, and when we got there, the person organising the queues suggested that we might like to take the 8:15 which had spare seats. So we…

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