Shell and the Group Captain over at Across the Atlantic are facing some hard times. Aren’t we all says the crowd. This is, however, a little different. The star crossed lovers have been trying to get the paperwork sorted out so that they can, at a minimum, actually live in the same country. The asinine US visa policy (and no, this is nothing to do with Homeland Security, 9/11 or anything else. It’s just always been this way. Anyway, he already knows how to fly.) means that having met, fallen in love and decided to marry he has had to go back to the UK and apply again for a different sort of visa. Something which has taken months, if not years.
The latest little indignity is that the bureaucratic monster needs to be fed with $165 in order to, what, shuffle paper I guess. And this is $165 they don’t have. So I recommend a little visit over there and a ponder on whether you would like to hit their PayPal or Amazon button.
Given my exemplary success with the “Anyone but Sully” campaign ($0.00 raised) I feel I need to spice this up in some manner. So, the first five of you who manage to come back to me with the correct answer to this question: “What are the words immediately before “eternally grateful”?” will get one of the invitations I have for a bright shiny new Gmail account. No, you don’t have to contribute to get one, just go and mull over the idea.
Let’s get Lionel over to the US, certainly to the benefit of that country, to the loss of the UK, but why should we be thinking about such nationalistic things when we can shuffle some little green pieces of paper around and help to make two people happy?