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Old May 9th 2013, 3:24 am
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Got to sing the Australian National Anthem at the swimming Championships today- thought I'd practise ready for the ceremony. Only got a couple of words the wrong way round, but why did I get so emotional???
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Originally Posted by carolinephillips
Got to sing the Australian National Anthem at the swimming Championships today- thought I'd practise ready for the ceremony. Only got a couple of words the wrong way round, but why did I get so emotional???
Cause yer a wummin
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Originally Posted by Kapri
Granted this morning
Cogratulations

Good luck with all the arrangements
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Congratulations.

You are only two hours away from my house, in Aussie standard just 5 mins down the road.
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Originally Posted by Bernieboy
Cause yer a wummin
Naughty but also probably true

Originally Posted by old.sparkles
Cogratulations

Good luck with all the arrangements
Thank you when are you off?

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Congratulations.

You are only two hours away from my house, in Aussie standard just 5 mins down the road.
I'll look forward to meeting up for a


Flights booked today. We are going via L.A. to take the kids to Disney, then on to Fiji to relax for a few days before arriving in Aus on 8th July :thumbs up:

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Originally Posted by Kapri
Thank you when are you off?
We got here a month ago

Picking the keys up today for our new home - now just need container released by customs and all go
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Originally Posted by old.sparkles
We got here a month ago

Picking the keys up today for our new home - now just need container released by customs and all go



Hope it's all going well x
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Originally Posted by old.sparkles
We got here a month ago

Picking the keys up today for our new home - now just need container released by customs and all go


Hope they don't stitch you for some dodgy dirty shoes or something they dream up.
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Excellent news :-)
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How exciting, and here I am just ready to start looking into things. Hope things go well when you get there after what sounds like an amazing family holiday beforehand. :-)
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Thanks everyone.

The shippers have now taken all of our worldly goods to Felixstowe, Mr Kapri has handed in his notice and the leaving party is arranged. Less than a month to go now. I have swung from feeling elated to feeling terrified and back again.
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Originally Posted by old.sparkles
We got here a month ago

Picking the keys up today for our new home - now just need container released by customs and all go
How long did your container take? Our shippers have told us that ours is sailing on Saturday and that it's getting into Sydney on 8th July. That's 6 weeks sailing. I expected it to take longer.
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Originally Posted by Kapri
How long did your container take? Our shippers have told us that ours is sailing on Saturday and that it's getting into Sydney on 8th July. That's 6 weeks sailing. I expected it to take longer.
Its not the sailing time that holds most of them up - its the customs clearance time
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Originally Posted by Kapri
How long did your container take? Our shippers have told us that ours is sailing on Saturday and that it's getting into Sydney on 8th July. That's 6 weeks sailing. I expected it to take longer.
Our container arrived in Adelaide on 29th April and was released by customs on 14th May. We had nearly every box opened because we had martial arts weapons to declare and some weren't in the box they were supposed to be in. We got our stuff delivered on the 16th
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I think IIRC our container was 11 weeks door to door.

Packed up wk commencing 20 August 2012 and we took delivery on 6 November 2012

Nothing missing and no breakages DDs bike had a bolt that needed repairing but nothing to worry about
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