Pollyana

Please turn off your caps lock!!! Its a bit like shouting - as well as making posts hard to read

Thanks

comet555

I was about to say that as well, but you guys beat me to it!

Pollyana

Snap!!!!

graciebluecat

sorry about caps i sgned in on caps forgot to turn off , tyoed it all up without looking thanks for the telling off guys wont do it again

Pollyana

Hey, don't worry, gave us all a laugh to discover we were all thinking the same thing at the same time!

Heres another laugh - WTF am I doing still up, its 4am! Maybe its cool enough to sleep now, only 26 degrees, but nice breeze coming in

graciebluecat

4am god and your still up i would love to be there with the degrees being so high, here i am sat with a weeping eye blocked nose and cough from hell as the weather is shit and too many viruses flying around you lucky thing i wish i was you right now,soon to be in oz though hey and i nevr used caps

Pollyana

I'll swap! Anytime you likr. I only feel alive at night this time of year, been too hot all day to go out, right now it feels like an English summer (I'm actually in Brisbane). Off to bed shortly, knowing I'll wake up about 5 hours time in 35 degrees and blazing heat again. I've not got a cold, but I have raging sinuses from aircon at work. Cough for the same reason, it makes the air too dry.

Nowhere is perfect, remember that - but at the same time, a lot of people are better suited to Aus than I am!

2 weeks time I'll be in Bristol. I want it cold, wet, windy, and British

curly

Blimey Pollyanna, you're still up? what time are you off to bed?

Pollyana

Very shortly, its cool enough to sleep now...take note anyone heading for Brisbane. This is normal for this time of year. Sod whatever the BBC says, its 25.1 degrees and its 70% humidity.

curly

so what time will you sleep to???

btw sleep tite

Phil & Chele

£8.50 - £10.50ph !!! thats great.... can he hang internal doors got 9 that need doing in Poole.!! We to looking at selling up and moving to Oz ..

graciebluecat

hiya oh you live not far we are in ensury pk way andy my hubby would be happy to give you a quote he wrks for himself at the moment as chippynot employed its just never regular when self employed never know whats coming in and we got a ridiculous mortgage to pay,pm me when you want quote,are you in the process of visa app yet?or just thinking of moving,?... ...message for polyanna i know humidity is horrible thats one thing that concerns me, on a recent trip with my family to goa it was hot but dry and i loved it, all my muscles kill here in the uk. in goa i felt great,my body wants heat, hope you like bristol and the freezing weather!!!.its always nice to experience what were not used to.

jad n rich

Glad you found my wages info helpful, that was the contractor rate, no hols or sick pay etc on those rates and its not continual work, you constantly need to re- quote to keep yourself in work. But yes carpentry is not badly paid by aussie standards, (this is licenced qualified rates).

Please dont kid yourself on the cost of living. Houses at this stage are still cheaper than UK, no doubt. But, keep an eye on SE QLD prices, 1200 migrants a week has caused a massive rental shortage, rents are going up, property prices have been steady for 3 years, interest rates are being tipped to steady, by the amount of sales around I think prices will start to move, developers have already started hiking the land prices again. Not a boom yet, but grumblings of movement.

Apart from that most stuff is the same or higher as UK (yes I do know the prices was there last week). Petrol is cheap, but most trade contractors quote for work over hundreds of klms, add a large vehicle full of equipment and petrol wont seem cheap. Food is ludicrously priced. You have many factors to consider if you have a family such as healthcare, you pay for kids glasses, dental, braces, specialists, prescriptions and significant contributions for education even if its a state school. Plus you must remember UK has some very competitive markets, be it food, airfares, books, clothing, there is not such competition here and as such prices will often be quite a nasty shock compared to UK.

suzimc

Hi Rumswizz,

You can download it from UKNova - we are in exactly the sam position as you (in the US but got our PR and just waiting to move to Oz - and we watched 3 episodes last night that we downloaded last week

Where are you by the wya, and when are you planning to move?

CadburysFingers

Just watched a couple of eps of this, and found it to be everything that was bad about UK TV, but if its your cup of tea/you missed it/and you are familiar with torrents then it is here to download:

http://www.uknova.com/details.php?id=38675

http://www.uknova.com/details.php?id=39022