Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Oct 23rd 2005, 12:34 pm
#331
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Hutch
Can't wait to get our son started at school there. He'll have about six months off before starting (he's just turned four) and then attend the school across the road from my parent's house. My father is on the PTA there (he's a retired English teacher with over 30 years experience) and he said the curriculum was far more rounded than in the UK and that they were far happier to let the kids be kids, before starting them on the examination and testing conveyor belt. At the school our son attends in the UK (one of the top 10 primary's in the country), he is already being tested on a daily basis which I personally find appalling. Both government and parents in this country seem obsessed with exams and whilst I agree there is always going to be a need for qualifications, I think children should also be allowed to be children.
nice to know that they let kids be kids longer i think the kids are all growing up so quickly, good post hope your wee lad gets on ok first day off school bless! where are you off to in Oz?
Oct 23rd 2005, 12:41 pm
#332
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by The Bowles Family
hi nice to know that they let kids be kids longer i think the kids are all growing up so quickly, good post hope your wee lad gets on ok first day off school bless! where are you off to in Oz?
nice to know that they let kids be kids longer i think the kids are all growing up so quickly, good post hope your wee lad gets on ok first day off school bless! where are you off to in Oz? Can't wait 
Oct 23rd 2005, 3:01 pm
#333
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by NJJ
Bastard washing machines.
Hello mate, long time no speak. Where you living now? Did I hear you're in Melbourne? This'll make you laugh...I had to go down to Warrigul for work for a day, about a month ago. The place just reeked of shit
All that prime farmland in the spring 
Take it easy
Oct 24th 2005, 9:41 am
#334
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Hutch
Place called Berry, about 100Km south of Sydney. Nice semi-rural little town. Flying out in 38 days for our regular 2 months to stay with my folks and then permanently in mid-2006 Can't wait
Can't wait Berry's a great little town!! I lived in Nowra for a few years when I was a kid. Good luck with yor move mate, hope it all works out for you.
ZX.......
Oct 24th 2005, 10:30 am
#335
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by zx10r_aus
Berry's a great little town!! I lived in Nowra for a few years when I was a kid. Good luck with yor move mate, hope it all works out for you.
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Oct 26th 2005, 3:15 am
#336
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by fireeater
Hello mate, long time no speak. Where you living now? Did I hear you're in Melbourne? This'll make you laugh...I had to go down to Warrigul for work for a day, about a month ago. The place just reeked of shit
All that prime farmland in the spring Take it easy
Yeah am in Melbourne now, East side bling bling etc. LOL
Warrigul eh? If you'd have kept going furhter east to Traralgon / LaTrobe valley etc the stink gets worse!
Hope Caroline told you I saw you in the paper the other day!
Oct 26th 2005, 4:22 am
#337
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
wsame old british expat crappy talk
Oct 26th 2005, 7:11 am
#338
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Re: Same **** Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by zx10r_aus
Berry's a great little town!! I lived in Nowra for a few years when I was a kid. Good luck with yor move mate, hope it all works out for you.
ZX.......
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Oct 26th 2005, 1:08 pm
#339
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by NJJ
Yeah am in Melbourne now, East side bling bling etc. LOL
Warrigul eh? If you'd have kept going furhter east to Traralgon / LaTrobe valley etc the stink gets worse!
Hope Caroline told you I saw you in the paper the other day!
Warrigul eh? If you'd have kept going furhter east to Traralgon / LaTrobe valley etc the stink gets worse!
Hope Caroline told you I saw you in the paper the other day!
We're moving east...hopefully to Elwood. I work from Ormond and it's a pain driving there from over here.
Oct 27th 2005, 4:39 am
#340
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
don’t leave the UK for any one or many reasons because they will all exist here. Come here because there is something you desperately need and want from Australia that you can’t find either in the UK or Europe. Not because something stinks back home.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't have put that better myself, totally agree, I had never been to Australia before we moved here so had no great expectations, just a husband who had lived here before and said we would could give the kids a better 'lifestyle' now I have to agree on that one, but still love the UK warts and all.
Marie
Couldn't have put that better myself, totally agree, I had never been to Australia before we moved here so had no great expectations, just a husband who had lived here before and said we would could give the kids a better 'lifestyle' now I have to agree on that one, but still love the UK warts and all.
Marie
Oct 29th 2005, 2:37 pm
#341
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by fireeater
Yeah, she told me and I saw it....I looked like a drug dealer :scared:
We're moving east...hopefully to Elwood. I work from Ormond and it's a pain driving there from over here.
We're moving east...hopefully to Elwood. I work from Ormond and it's a pain driving there from over here.
I live near Caulfield racecourse so it wont be far from you.
Oct 29th 2005, 2:39 pm
#342
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by NJJ
I live near Caulfield racecourse so it wont be far from you.
Oct 29th 2005, 2:50 pm
#343
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Re: Same S!it Different Bucket!!!!!!
Originally Posted by NJJ
I live near Caulfield racecourse so it wont be far from you.
