The photo is of a house not too far away from Camden tube station. This is the house that decorates very elaborately at Christmas time. Right now he has a cover on his satellite dish in the shape of a big heart…maybe he put that up for Valentines Day but hasn’t took it down again. [...]
Feb
28
UAFA 90th Co-Sponsor
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Betty McCollum became the 90th co-sponsor of the Uniting America Families Act on February 25th, we love you Betty! The number sponsoring in the Senate hasn’t changed and remains at 12. Immigration Equality has re-launched its action alerts to target legislators to co-sponsor the act and these can be found on their blog. Obama, in [...]
Feb
23
Review of Shen Yun
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Not quite sure what to say about Shen Yun. I just assumed that they were a group from China and I was going to see something quite cultural and parts of it was. However, to me it turned out to be something between a propaganda and evangelical message. Firstly they were from New York and [...]
Feb
22
Today was our medical for our Canadian Immigration application. It was at a private clinic and cost us 500 pounds for the both of us. Quite expensive but at least we were treated far better than the NHS. It was kind of bizarre how many things the immigration people wanted to know…but I guess we [...]
Feb
18
Very pleased to hear about the possible return of Noah’s Arc in a film. The news is all over the ‘net so I will just let someone else go into it in more detail – go to Rod2.0. This is one of my favorite programs and was quite sad to see it come to a [...]
Feb
17
Freezing Weekend
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After a stressful Friday, ploughing through a contract to compare what a company had done and not done for an outsourced piece of work I was looking forward to the weekend. On Saturday Don wasn’t well enough to go visit my parents with me…so its good that he stayed at home. I walked to St [...]
Feb
17
Immigration Update
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Certainly has been quite a long time since I wrote about activities with LGBT immigration in the US so here is an update. Uniting American Families Act There are two new co-sponsors in the House making a total of 89 – really not a good turnout – but the gorgeous new supporters are: Earl Blumenauer [...]
Feb
14
Quite a lovely Valentines all in all…except the bit between 8am and 4.45pm…thats the work bit!! Although my colleagues at the office I was at today are extremely jolly and professional the work was a tad ungorgeous. Having some discussion with my work comrades today and I seemed to be one of the few celebrating [...]
Feb
11
Looks like Camden is quite accident prone at the moment. Today the roof was knocked off a bus [source: BBC] that got diverted away from its usual route through the area of the fire. Evidently the authorities know what caused the Camden fire this past weekend but they are not saying until the official investigation [...]
Feb
10
Camden Aftermath and New Year Parade
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Black smoke was still billowing out from the Camden Lock area this morning, we could see it as we approached Camden tube station. They now don’t know how it started, no one was injured, but the fire was bad and potentially a lot of damage has been done. Unfortunately not everyone could keep out of [...]
Feb
9
Breaking: Camden on Fire
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Large fire at Camden Lock – BBC London. After a lovely night with our friends in Chinatown this evening we were coming home on the bus. When we got into Camden a lot of fire engines, police and ambulances were trying to get past the traffic. Due to traffic coming to a stand still we [...]
Feb
8
Willow Springs Soap
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This past couple of weeks I have been working on updating our very good friends website. They are called Willow Springs Soap Co. and produce the most wonderful handmade soap. In addition to soap they have grown their product range to include bath, shampoo and many other wonderful items. If care about what you put [...]
Feb
7
Walk to Kings Cross
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This morning I changed my routine and walked from Camden to Kings Cross Station via the Regents Canal. Since the new year it seems that the Northern Line has become over-crowded and unbearable. The best thing about the walk were minimal contact with humans! The closer I got the worse it got, as soon as [...]
Feb
2
American's Take Over Camden
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….or at least that what it sounds from all the publicity. We got a letter from the National Health Service stating that our doctor’s surgery was now going to be run by UnitedHealth. The company is huge and worth billion’s [see profile on Yahoo Finance] and is the largest health and wellbeing company in the [...]
Feb
1
Thomas
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We have watched with interest the Halifax series of adverts and particularly enjoyed the Bollywood one. However, they have come out with an even better one this time featuring the campest asian guy and we love it. The Yorkshire Evening Post did an interview with Thomas Yau who works in a the Halifax call center [...]