Now that I am transitioning personally and professionally–I’m now teaching at Houston Baptist University if you didn’t know–it gave me an opportunity to reconsider what to do with the blog. It’s blindingly obvious that once I finished my studies I’ve had trouble maintaining momentum with it. I think it’s been helpful to others, so I didn’t want to cancel it. As a result, in keeping with its name Dunelm Road, I’ve enlisted a few friends from my time in Durham (Dunelm is Durham in Latin) to join on as full contributors. As such it will represent some of the Durham Diaspora. Here’s the new crowd: John Goodrich (teaching at Moody in Chicago), Ed Kaneen (in the midst of PhD studies at Durham), and Jason Maston (teaching at Highland Theological College in Dingwall). Welcome, mates. I expect between us we’ll be able to string together something more interesting than what has been posted of late.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011 at 10:36 am
Hi Ben
I have been skimming through your blog as i ended up here search for some answers about moving to the UK from the USA. My wife and step kids are Americans and we are going through the process of appliying for a visa for her to come to the UK to stay and work but we are worried about making sure we do not mess it up. Particularly we are (as many people these days) looking to make sure we make the most of our money and as such have not reserved anything flights wise until such time as the Visa is granted. But here’s our dilemma the application is asking for us to provide evidence of reservations with our other supporting documentation and as such we are stuck between a rock and a hard place and need some advice from anyone that can help.
Would appreciate it if you could either direct me to a good resource that could answer my question(s as i am sure there will be more) or if you could help I would be truly greatful.
I appreciate any information/advice you can give
kind regards
Glen
Monday, 24 October 2011 at 7:11 pm
I’m not sure what to do in that situation. All I know is that things are getting much more difficult visa-wise than they were 6 years ago when we started.