well, today would have been the deadline for my passport to have come using the passport express service - were it not for the hiatus with the embassy fucking up my photographs. i s’pose i’ll have to allow an extra day or so to account for that. but if it’s not here on [...]

before christmas i sent off to the personnel office at college to get myself issued wi’ a staff ID card as they’ve been tightening up on security of late, due to having had to expel a load of prebubescent wannabe-’gangstas’ [who naturally threatened to come back and torch the college]. i hadnae heard anything [...]

in which your humble author conducts a series of wild and dangerous experiments to test the fragility [or otherwise] of his originally submitted passport snaps…
having been told by the irish embassy, that the passport snaps i had originally submitted had been ruined by their laminating machine - with the suggestion that this had somehow been [...]