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Use a camera shop that understands lighting and exposure! This sounds like schoolboy errors on the behalf of the photographer.
When I was quite young; hemp seed used to form a fairly high proportion of pet bird seed. My mother was in the habit of blowing out the husks from the canary’s food pot at the bottom of our garden onto an area of ‘natural’ park land. As a result some very pretty six foot high plants sprung up during one warm summer and she received a visit from the local constabulary telling her to cease and desist! (Cannabis growing was not actually illegal at the time, and was readily available on Doctor’s prescription).
A huge 45 year long study in Dunedin (New Zealand) has shown (amongst many other things) that cannabis consumption has many positive side effects and only one evil one – regular users suffer far more gum disease than the average population! There are lots of very interesting findings in relation to health, nurture and ageing to be found in the Dunedin Report (A very readable overview can be found here).
“There are reflections in your photo.”
Spectacles? Best not to wear them as even ‘non-reflective’ lenses often cause issues. Jewellery is often the other problem area for females as the digital pic includes the upper quarter of the body.
Just to get back to the subject of HMPO, on-line renewal is extremely efficient. I filled the form in on Saturday and sent off my old passport on Monday. I received an email yesterday to say my new passport is in the post!
Back in my old student days, there were a few London pubs which had both atmosphere and beer.
In Stepney The Prospect of Whiby
In north London The Spaniards Inn
In Fleet Street The Cheshire Cheese
For atmosphere Dirty Dicks
I see that the latter has been Elf & Safetied since I last went there. When I was a student it made its reputation from the ‘fact’ it had not been cleaned or dusted for 200 years. Now just a sample has been hygienically moved to a glass case!
I quoted a verifiable legal definition of ‘personally known’. However here is what the Government says:
“A countersignatory must be a professional person or a person of similar standing, who enjoys a good reputation in the community, possesses credentials that can be checked, who would have something to lose by wrongly countersigning an application. The countersignatory must have also known the applicant for at least two years and hold a current British or Irish Passport. In addition IPS must be able to contact the countersignatory if necessary.”
I would recommend that John asks his pharmacist if she would be willing to sign. She can only say no!
I think you are all reading too much into the ‘personally’ thing. It basically means a person who can recognise you on sight and knows your name, and you have both known each other by name for at least two years. Personally does not mean a ‘friend’.
The legal definition is: “someone who acknowledges a person’s identity and can recognise that person.”
Any professional can do it – social worker etc.
See link – quite a lot of people are eligible even the manager of your local pub!
If you use the online application for passport renewal then you do not need anyone to verify your photo (provided your appearance has not changed too much since your last passport —- ageing is ok). However I would strongly recommend using a photo shop and ask them to email the original (uncropped) to you, get this before you start filling in the form. I’d use a photo-shop as they know all the rules on lighting background etc. Costs about £10 usually, and gives you a supply of pics for bus pass etc.
Gett the digital pic before starting the form. NOTE the digital pic MUST be unedited (they look at the exif data on the photo).
edit- you cannot use a scanned pic!
To be fair (don’t see why I should!), it depends on where you are in France. Imo Paris is by far the most intolerant, but many parts of rural France are a delight. I’ve not yet been to Brittany but I gather from my wife’s French cousin that they can be downright rude to people from other parts of France and switch to Breton, bit like North Wales in that respect!
I certainly agree that they are the least friendly if you try to speak poor French. In contrast other countries are pleased that you have made an attempt. Btw after giving my colleague a rough seven days, they allowed him to revoke his French Nationality (he should have done it when he was 18), and leave without further ado. however I think it cost him a fair bit in advocate fees etc.
As it happens I have just applied for a passport renewal. The T&C state the following:
“When you get your new passport you must sign it with black ballpoint pen. You can’t use it until you do.”
If you still have an old XP licence try running it under Virtualbox.
Post Brexit even France may not be a ‘friendly’ border! I remember pre-EU days one of my colleagues being hauled away at the French border post. He was born in France to a French mother and technically still French and without knowing he had skipped his NS for eight+ years. He was immediately detained to start doing his National Service in the Regiment du Train (punishment duties).
The best innovation for rugby was the 10minute ‘sin-bin’. I wish they would bring it in for yellow card offences in football, it would soon eliminate some of the most cynical ‘accidental’ fouls.
The link is broken – all I received was a ‘ooops!’
I sympathise with Bob, Unfortunately he was probably a victim of the IFA money grubbers who just wanted to continue milking their no-risk (to them) 2-5% fee structure. All the warning signs were blinking bright red at the time but there were very few voices willing to state the obvious – that the dam was about to burst and preferentially destroy all those who came late to the party. It wasn’t helped by Gordon Brown’s actions to pillage pension funds, a move that could not have come at a worse time, but typical of a man who sold out our gold reserves at their lowest possible price.
There were very similar warning signs flashing just a few months ago when we previously touched on stock market risk, and I mentioned Warren Buffett’s predictions that the current dam was about to burst and send us into a full-blown Bear Market. I do not think we have yet seen the worst of that forecast. as Price/Earnings ratios are still at a stupidly high level, and we have yet to see the full negative effects of Brexit – whatever that word is supposed to mean.
“If the grass is really so much greener in the US banking industry perhaps WF should have borrowed there rather than from Russia”
Richard the US banking system is even worse than ours! You do not borrow from banks but from venture capital companies, these pretty much requires you set up your company there, that would expose WF to all sorts of spurious ‘look & feel’ patent claims. Not really practical for them.
Unfortunately the UK still has one of the world’s poorest infrastructures for innovative financing. It is one reason why companies still like going to the US despite all its associated software patent squatting downsides.
Thanks Boris, I wish WF luck. Their product is well-built both from a software and hardware standpoint. As a new WF owner I’m impressed with both their customer support and their timely security updates. Re damage to the company, I do not think the average Joe pays that much attention to company business news and that is where WF were pitched – certainly not a bleeding edge techie appealing product. Just solid with a good general choice of specs. I certainly did not get too worried about Russian financing much better that than Middle-East sub-rosa ISIS supporting countries. (most of those being in the footie business!)
Thanks for the forum suggestion. I took a look they seem reasonably well supported including the ‘official’ camera apk. I’ll certainly hold off for now, but it looks like a viable backstop.
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