So, anyway, I've got to get a new one, which of course entails getting passport pictures taken. As standard UK passports are valid for ten years this provides a handy opportunity to see how much you've aged since the last photo was taken, and to be horrified at your transformation from apple-cheeked youth into Keith Richards. Here's my two photos for comparison purposes:
Not really a dramatic transformation, I think, to be fair. My hair's a bit greyer and thinner (though less so than I'd feared), and that's a truly disastrous pair of glasses I'm wearing in the 1998 picture, but apart from that they're not too dissimilar, possibly because I was a bit hungover when both pictures were taken, the 1998 one in a branch of Boots in the middle of Edinburgh, and the 2008 one in another branch of Boots right here in Newport a week or so ago. That picture up in the attic is obviously still doing its job.
You can do a lot of the passport application process online now, though obviously there's some handing over of photographs (and your existing passport if you're renewing) which has to be done the old-fashioned way, i.e. in person or by post. Further information can be found here. Not at all, here to help.
2 comments:
you look like a criminal. i'm scared.
Yes, the second one (which is the one I assume you're referring to) is a bit serious, but the lengthy list of things you're not allowed to do in the photographs these days includes smiling excessively, so I may have overcompensated a bit.
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