Sorry to derail.

Quick question, I am stupid so please do not get angry.

Do you guys meet other Irish / British people in Australia and have any kind of issues over catholic / protestant stuff that seems to have been a bit of an issue over in N.I.?

We are from The south of Ireland.

We have neighbours or should I say friends from the Uk and NI. Never an issue with us. Maybe on a Saturday night after a few beers I might drop around to fire the odd pipe bomb at them just incase they feel homesick. And once I give the car a quick check in the mornings before starting it. All is good

You will be fine.

Paddy

I turned my headlights off when I was flagged down for a breathalyser once. Scared the crap out of the cops.

I just know one of my friends said his mother was shot in the troubles and his dad grew up with guns and stuff.

They're nice people though and I haven't really brought it up with them as I do not want to start any problems.

I am from NI myself and lived for 3 years with 3 other lads, there were 2 from each side of the fence and we are still the best of friends, we had and still have some great times together and there was never a word said out of place.... At the end of the day no one else could tell a difference between us and after a while neither did we.

Anyway there are plenty of other people who deserve our abuse more.

I hear that NI is so full of Croatians now that the Irish can't find anyone to fight with.

lol This made me giggle, thanks cuppa! After the day I've had I needed a giggle, also the one about switching the headlights off as you approached the peeler, EVEN BETTER LOLOL

At the end of the day we're all the same, and I even felt that when I lived in NI. It was slightly different for us though as I was a police officer and my OH in the army, so we always felt like we were 'watching our backs' especially since things kicked off bigstyle last year. We always joked that we'd be a double whammy/2 for one/buy (kill) one get one free kinda thing, but it's so nice not having to worry like that anymore. Though in saying that I'm proud of my wee country and always will love it, it's just not my home anymore, but a part of my heart will always belong there. It gets a bad press which it really doesn't deserve!

LOVE YOU NORTHERN IRELAND!!! (I don't miss your crappy weather tho!)

Good to see you back online Jen... I see you only been here 4 weeks and already introduced Blackskull weather to QLD.

Its hasn't rained in places for like 10 years and Jen arrives and it hasn't stopped pi**ing... nice one jen

HAHA cheeky sod lol

hey there jen havnt posted in months hows it been

hey there i thought you applied on a school teacher visa were you not teaching primary school chillder in ards or somewere??? our visa has stalled altogether ,we have friends in sydney that had employers and everything and in constant work in the city but had to come back home because they got there visa stopped .whatever visa you have well done.. we have a lot of family in brisbane ,dont know if they are bias but they say qld is the most diverse and beautiful state

Hi Hannash, yeah we've been here 3 weeks now, this being our 4th. I ended up cancelling my 175 visa and went on my OH's ENS 120 visa instead. We've been very fortunate, especially as the visa was processed in 33 days! QLD is definitely lovely so far, not that we've seen very much of it as yet, however today it's absolutely P*SSIN it down but hey ho, it cools things down which can't be a bad thing! lol

Hey Jen

Your right its been pissin down all day here and I so wanted to go round the neighbours with my new pipe bomb but I guess it will have to wait

Glad you are enjoying it so far if you are ever down the sunny coast guve us a shout and I will have a beer or two in the fridge

Paddy

Cool, I might hold you to that, though I prefer wine or vodka or if I'm feeling flash a nice wee orange bacardi breezer mmmmm

Never I had more than enough of that in Belfast.Once you leave N.I it ceases to be a problem at all.