Even though she has never been outside of a 1.5m radius of her parents' home, Baby Bea sees herself as very much an international jetsetter (indeed, if there is any other kind of jetsetter).
As such, Bea knows that she will one day be the proud possessor of not one, but two, passports and nationalities, Italian and British. She is however, quite excited about the prospect of adding another to her collection.......a blue passport. An Australian passport!!
You see, Daddy, despite what his accent and sporting allegiances might suggest, is actually as Australian as Paul Hogan, Banjo Patterson, Dame Edna Everage and Steve 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin. This is all due to his own Mummy, who was born in the exotically named Wagga Wagga, which Daddy tells me is on the Murrumbidgee River near to Wadonga and Wangaratta. I have absolutely no idea what all of this means, but wow, how great are those words!!
Now the Australians are a picky lot and apparently even Baby Bea needs to jump through a few hoops before they will grant her citizenship, in this case as Daddy himself got his Australian nationality through descent, he needs to prove that he has spent at least 2 years of his life in the country of surf, stubbies and BBQs.
Luckily Daddy himself went to Australia a lot when he was a child and then went for extended visits when he was a little older, so Daddy and Poppa are going to gather together all his old passports to work out whether he meets this 2 year target.
If he doesn't he has until I am sixteen to build this up. So Daddy, pack up your surfboard, let's go down under!
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