Progress

Miranda rang yesterday. It turns out that she needs a Spanish CRB check for me, which she hadn’t mentioned until now. Considering that a few weeks ago we were supposed to be going to panel tomorrow, it seems quite an oversight, but maybe they don’t assess that many foreigners at our local authority. She gave me some instructions that she’s looked up on the Criminal Bureau Records website, and I’ve been in touch with the Spanish consulate to find out more. As it happens I will be in Spain next week, so I hope to be able to get it while I’m there. Also, their medical adviser has returned our medical reports and they are fine. Well, fine-ish. There aren’t any major issues, but Glen’s body mass index is over 30, so they have suggested that he loses some weight. Glen is not impressed, but has promised to do something about it.

Miranda also said that she had some more questions for us, but given the weather conditions she would just email them over rather than come over. They deal once again with Glen’s mum and dad, and there are some follow-up questions on the personalities of the children we might want to be matched with. She also asks about whether we’ve even been bullied because of our sexuality, and how we would deal with any bullying that a child matched with us might suffer because of having gay dads. I wonder if the latter has been prompted by recent media coverage of gay adoption...

In any case, we have set up a meeting in just under three weeks to discuss our home study report (so we assume we’ll receive it before then). It looks like things are moving on again!