Advantages: Great for the whole family , easy to follow , funny , Disadvantages: none
Passportto paris
Twins Melanie and Alyson porter (played by Mary-kate and Ashley Olsen) are average American teenage girls.
During their Spring Break they plan on going to the spring fling dance , a popular dance at school , but their parents suprise them with tickets to Paris.The girls are disappointed but decide there'll be plenty more dances that they can attend.
So during their Spring Break they visit their Granpa in Paris who is the American ambassador.
Before ariving they are excited about spending some quality time with their Grandad who they have not seen for some time.
They soon discover that they will not be spending much time with their grandpa but with his assistant Jeremy Bluff who acts as their chaperone.
The girls disagree with almost everything he does and said , and try to come up with all kinds ...
Advantages: Great one-liners, great idea for a film, love it! Disadvantages: None
One of my favourite films, Passportto Pimlico was a film I first saw when I was a child, and the concept of it really appealed to me.
It came out in 1949, and is set a in post second world war London, Pimlico to be precise (funny that!). It stars Stanley Holloway (also in The Lavender Hill Mob, My Fair Lady and much more), Margaret Rutherford (Miss Marple), and a very early appearance from Charles Hawtry (Carry On films).
To summarise slightly, because I don't want to give too much away, and besides, it is definitely a comedy worth seeing, there is an unexploded bomb, some kids are playing and accidentally(?) kick a tyre down the hole, which sets off the bomb, to reveal a hole (which I gather was a buried cellar) containing among jewels, coins etc, a set of important documents revealing to the inhabitants that Pimlico is in fact ...
Advantages: Fast, efficient and totally secure Disadvantages: Costs a bit more for peace of mind
Note this advice applies only to priority passport renewals by UK citizens - it doesn't cover first passports or anyone whose nationality is more 'complicated'. Other procedures apply in those instances.
Do you know where your passport is? Do you know when it's due to expire?
Organised readers will smugly be thinking "Yep, it's in the top drawer, under the insurance paperwork with another 5 years to run". Some readers may be wriggling in their seats slightly uncomfortably thinking "Well I know where it should be but I'm not completely sure and it must be due to run out soon because I still had hair/didn't have wrinkles/had that ridiculous make-up when the photo was done". Or maybe one or two of you are going to spend a few hours worrying because you really can't remember where you put it or when it runs out.
Recently my ...
