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Tonight I have booked 2 round trip tickets to New York. Of course, we'd delayed booking, so they were out of £330 cheap tickets and it cost £479 each. We are getting Flying Club miles, but I'd rather have the money. (Not that I'll turn down 7,500 miles, including the online booking bonus.)

Then I reserved a rental car, which, surprisingly, was cheaper on National's website than on Expedia (I used expedia to search, but not to book). It's only reserved, not paid for, so I can always change it. Must check about Neil's car and credit card insurance as I didn't take extra insurance--I know he's got some kind of rental car insurance on his car policy. I remember being told that LDW and CDW are often unnecessary anyway.

Today I got an envelope from the DVLA.

Enclosed was my passport, application, cheque, and a letter saying they were unable to process my application because my passport didn't have the correct immigration stamps (they're in my old passport).

NO ONE EVER TOLD ME I NEEDED THEM!!!!

Not the application form, not the woman at DVLA Stanmore who looked over my application and passport.

What really pisses me off is that it took over 2 weeks for them to tell me that--that's how long they said it would take to send my provisional licence.

So now I have to send it back, along with my old passport, and hope that they accept it.

Grrr.