get my British passport

Right so it’s pretty straightforward, just filling out a form and mailing some money. Have the form, money, just need to renew my US passport (a dog chewed it).

I wonder if I’ll actually get to use it. I’m pretty sure my reserved relatives would pretend they’re on holiday, army-crawling across their living room floors if I actually showed up on their doorsteps. Nothing like family…

Probably best to go it alone.

So it seems I’m in a hurry to leave my country. I’m not running from the law and it’s not that I don’t like it here. It’s just that I’d probably appreciate it a whole lot more from a distance. My frame of reference is skewed as it’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to travel and I’ve got the green-grass complex. I know this. But life is short. I’m impatient…and I have family there.

So far, I’ve e-mailed people and solicited advice from my mother’s British friends.