Originally Posted by St.Georges Girl

My Mum's got that Miele one and always says how good it is but I HATE the cutlery tray, it's such a pain putting them all in there individually.

Originally Posted by Wol

Weeel.....

I bought the top-of-the-range Miele, the one with the turbo head, and I have to say that it's one of the worst designed vacuums I've ever used. It cleans well but is a pig to handle. The hose is at least 12" too short, the handle is gross - almost unuseable when the crevice tool etc are fitted - the titchy wheels make it awkward to pull around, there is no soft brush with it, there are several strange joiners which don't appear to have any function, expensive onetimeuse bags with automatic closures.... I could go on!

Our Miele tumble dryer had to be exchanged after we'd had nothing but trouble with it for the first three months - the authorised Miele "engineer" knew next to nothing about the machine and even denied it had a diagnostic I/R port despite being shown it and the reference to it in the manual!

Electrolux have always been good machines.

Originally Posted by Deadmeat

Nooooooooooo! Confusearama now ... I think a fresh thread is in order ...

Originally Posted by comet555

I have one here in Canada and I love it. I like to think of it as the only male who cleans up around the house (yes...I have actually given it a gender)!

I looked into this a while ago and you can get them in Australia.
http://www.roomba.com.au/index.html#

You can also get the new version that washes your floors. It's called the Scooba. I would love to get one of those too!

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Bought one of those a few months ago...took it back and got a refund. It was very slow, I had to keep refilling/empying it, left the floor very wet...all in all it was over 2 hrs before I could walk on the kitchen floor. I bought it from Sharper Image...I noticed a few weeks ago they've stopped selling them...I wonder why.

Originally Posted by clougherty family

Hi all,

I have managed to get interviews for our citizenship, mine on 17th May and OH on 11th June (he has been out of the country since we've been here). I am really pleased that we will still be here to do this, but here comes the problem. I phoned City of Perth and also City of Joondalup to see when the next ceremonies are and Perth said not until August and Joondalup said end of the year. What can we do? If we pay for the citizenship and have the interview, we are not citizens until attending a ceremony. If you don't attend one within 12mth then you have to reapply. I can't see us still being here by then, and if we sell the house we won't be able to put settlement off until these dates. Does anyone have any ideas/information for me??

Jo

Originally Posted by CadburysFingers

Well, we have just had our citizenship ceremony today in Joondaloop, and there did seem to be a few spaces there for single people, so I would definitely enquire if I was you. There were 7 groups of people called up to take the oath (no, you dont have to know it off by heart beforehand) and in those 7 groups were a total of 75 people, that isnt a divisible number, consequently that means there would have been room for a couple of others. there were 5 groups of 11 and two groups of 10. The ceremony itself was excellent I have to say, not what I was expecting at all, we all thoroughly enjoyed it.

Originally Posted by JAJ

Most Middle Eastern countries refuse to let their citizens give up their citizenship even if they want to.

This causes problems for some Australians visiting their former countries as Australia cannot extend consular assistance to someone claimed as a citizen by that other country (when in that country).

Indonesia bans dual citizenship (so any Indonesians who become Australian lose their citizenship).

Have you any other examples in mind?

Originally Posted by clougherty family

I have managed to get interviews for our citizenship, mine on 17th May and OH on 11th June (he has been out of the country since we've been here). I am really pleased that we will still be here to do this, but here comes the problem. I phoned City of Perth and also City of Joondalup to see when the next ceremonies are and Perth said not until August and Joondalup said end of the year. What can we do? If we pay for the citizenship and have the interview, we are not citizens until attending a ceremony. If you don't attend one within 12mth then you have to reapply. I can't see us still being here by then, and if we sell the house we won't be able to put settlement off until these dates. Does anyone have any ideas/information for me??

Jo

Originally Posted by cornishoz

we just rang our local mayors office in south coast nsw and said we didnt want a big ceromony and they said just come in and the mayor will do it as a one off . we had our citizenship within 10 days of being notified.i know things are scaled up in perth but perhaps they can be flexible according to circumstances. or maybe there are more benefits to living in a quiet rural area apart from the slower pace of life, great fishing, beaches etc

Originally Posted by clougherty family

Thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by DunRoaminTheUK

Did you ever manage to get to your citizenship ceremony?

Are you still happy back in the UK?

Originally Posted by clougherty family

Hi,

No we didn't get it. It would have cost us a lot of money to stay in Perth whilst waiting for a date and after weighing it all up we decided not to bother. We are very happy back here, feels like we never left. A couple of things occured to me over the weekend, I have started reading the newspaper here which I never did the whole time we were there and every morning when I get up I turn the radio on, another thing I just realised I never did. I have the radio on Heart 106.2 all day in my kitchen and it's because there is good music on!! It suits some people to live in Perth, but now I'm back I can categorically say, it wasn't for us. I had worries before we came back because obviously we didn't want to make the wrong choice, but I have absolutely no regrets now about coming back.

Jo