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Feb 16th 2007, 11:26 am
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I went to Rossett too Georgie! But I'm 34 so doubt our paths would have crossed......yes Dunlopillo is just up the road, still at loggerheads with all the Pannal residents! Although I do love my Dunlopillo bed which funnily enough a girl I used to know called Justine got for me over 10 years ago and its still going strong! Surely it cant be your sister - ha ha!!
I ran a customer service department before having the kid but at the mo I have twin boys aged 2 years 3 months, and a baby girl aged 11 weeks so at present I'm being a Mum!! I am sure I would be able to pick up something in Customer Service again but who knows? OH is a Management Consultant so who knows..?
Whereabouts in Melbourne are you - I have a second cousin who I'm really close to just near Geelong which I know is further out but she works in teh city, although she is about to have her first baby so may now be off.
I ran a customer service department before having the kid but at the mo I have twin boys aged 2 years 3 months, and a baby girl aged 11 weeks so at present I'm being a Mum!! I am sure I would be able to pick up something in Customer Service again but who knows? OH is a Management Consultant so who knows..?
Whereabouts in Melbourne are you - I have a second cousin who I'm really close to just near Geelong which I know is further out but she works in teh city, although she is about to have her first baby so may now be off.
Did Justine work at Dunlopillo as an accountant? Well if she did it is my sister and how did you know her? My dad worked there too! It was great as we used to get lovely free beds and pillows. Ours wore out before we left and bought a new one here. Aussy beds are sized Double which is smaller than a British Double, then Queen which is a bit bigger than a British double then Kingsize which is massive! In Britain its King then Queen i think!!!
Isnt it a small world!
Where did you work then? I have worked all over the place my last job was Ackrills for 5 years working part time. Before that i worked at Boots Opticians and Benefits Agency both for 4 years each. I have had lots of inbetween jobs like CPL, Cheltenham and Gloucester too many to go through!
I am at TAFE here doing Childrens Services Cert III and hope to work in child care (Obviously). It is a job thats in demand so hopefully i will finish it in a year. That is unless nursery dont keep sending Bobby home with the likes of a runny nose! Already had to miss my second day at college because of this. And its not like i can really ask anyone to look after him. That is the hardest part - not knowing anyone only to say hi to.
Sounds like you will be better off as you have a bit of family here to call on. With all your young brood sounds like you could do with all the help anyone offers!! How do you cope? 2 year old twins and an 11 month old. All I can say is good luck on your flight here, knock them out with phenegan and dont fly Qantas!!! They hate kids so i have heard.
Feb 16th 2007, 11:40 am
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Ha ha - yes it is the same Justine!! She even came to my wedding at RUdding in Oct 96.
I knew her when she went out with Lee (!!), I am sure she will remember me from that time as Charlie my husband is an Aussie. Infact I just asked him if he remembered Justine having any connection with Australia - he said yes of course dont you remember she had lived there. I couldn remember but thought then it was the same person!!
I worked (and still do) for a tracking company based near Wetherby. WHo knows what will happen if and when I go back........not yet though as baby is only 11 weeks old (not 11 months!) ANd I will fly Singapore if I can, have always found them the best on trips over there! We took the twins when they were 5 months old with Emirates who werent bad. And last year we went to Malaysia with them and flew Singapore who were as usual fab - we are mad I know but its to meet up with OH's family from brissie - they class it as half way!!
I knew her when she went out with Lee (!!), I am sure she will remember me from that time as Charlie my husband is an Aussie. Infact I just asked him if he remembered Justine having any connection with Australia - he said yes of course dont you remember she had lived there. I couldn remember but thought then it was the same person!!
I worked (and still do) for a tracking company based near Wetherby. WHo knows what will happen if and when I go back........not yet though as baby is only 11 weeks old (not 11 months!) ANd I will fly Singapore if I can, have always found them the best on trips over there! We took the twins when they were 5 months old with Emirates who werent bad. And last year we went to Malaysia with them and flew Singapore who were as usual fab - we are mad I know but its to meet up with OH's family from brissie - they class it as half way!!
Feb 16th 2007, 11:51 am
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Ha ha - yes it is the same Justine!! She even came to my wedding at RUdding in Oct 96.
I knew her when she went out with Lee (!!), I am sure she will remember me from that time as Charlie my husband is an Aussie. Infact I just asked him if he remembered Justine having any connection with Australia - he said yes of course dont you remember she had lived there. I couldn remember but thought then it was the same person!!
I worked (and still do) for a tracking company based near Wetherby. WHo knows what will happen if and when I go back........not yet though as baby is only 11 weeks old (not 11 months!) ANd I will fly Singapore if I can, have always found them the best on trips over there! We took the twins when they were 5 months old with Emirates who werent bad. And last year we went to Malaysia with them and flew Singapore who were as usual fab - we are mad I know but its to meet up with OH's family from brissie - they class it as half way!!
I knew her when she went out with Lee (!!), I am sure she will remember me from that time as Charlie my husband is an Aussie. Infact I just asked him if he remembered Justine having any connection with Australia - he said yes of course dont you remember she had lived there. I couldn remember but thought then it was the same person!!
I worked (and still do) for a tracking company based near Wetherby. WHo knows what will happen if and when I go back........not yet though as baby is only 11 weeks old (not 11 months!) ANd I will fly Singapore if I can, have always found them the best on trips over there! We took the twins when they were 5 months old with Emirates who werent bad. And last year we went to Malaysia with them and flew Singapore who were as usual fab - we are mad I know but its to meet up with OH's family from brissie - they class it as half way!!
Poor old Lee still living with his mum round the corner from where i lived. His daughter is a year younger than my William who is 6 and she goes to Wedderburn school.
I am off to bed now so i will keep reading this thread and will post later
Goodnight
Feb 16th 2007, 12:02 pm
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I dont think we've met either....but if we have I am 5 foot 11 with dark hair and OH is 6 foot 3 with blonde hair adn a big nose!!
Feb 16th 2007, 12:51 pm
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still up but def going to bed in a minute! Yes i think i now your hubby its the big nose bit! I cant remember if i new him as Charley though. If it is the same guy he was lovely with a GSOH and if i recall i worked at Michael Langford Travel for a while and the woman i worked with for a bit (might have been called Sue) knew him i think . Ask him if the name Georgina Overend rings a bell I am a Sharp now though.I have red hair and always sadly went to Carringtons ans i always went out with Justine thats how she met Lee as i knew him first (sadly for me ha ha) . I did like your hubby if it is him - though not in that way!! He had quite a dry humour and think he thought i was a bit dizzy. I thought he had a nickname ?
Feb 16th 2007, 1:11 pm
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He remembers Sue - did she used to occasionally "go out" with Andy G, Lee's mate - also known as Serial Killer? And he thinks he remembers you vaguely too! It would have been him, he used to go out with Lee a lot years ago! Poor thing rarely gets out of the house these days with three kids.......
Anyway - get to bed!!
And to eveyrone else wheres my congrats for getting the kids citizenship!!! Where are you all!!!!!
Anyway - get to bed!!
And to eveyrone else wheres my congrats for getting the kids citizenship!!! Where are you all!!!!!
Feb 16th 2007, 1:16 pm
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THought it would be a good idea to have a thread for all those of us who are either in the process of or thinking about or already got a spouse visa, be you a Pom or an Ozzy!! As there seems to have been a few of us on threads recently and we all seem to be heading for Brisbane!!
I'll start off - I'm Rachel, British, my husband is dual citizenship UK/Australia as he emigrated with his family when he was 4. He has been living back here in the UK (Harrogate in Yorkshire) for the last 12 years with me! We have been married for 10 years and have three kids, twin boys aged 2 and a 10 week old baby girl.
We've talked about going back to Aus for years and never ever been able to make a decision. Various things have kept us here such as his elderly grandparents who we basically looked after until their deaths in 1999 and 2003; and a small investment in a company that we both worked for. He has now left the company and I am on maternity leave.
We have now made the decision that its time to go for it, the ties we have here are my family who I love dearly but I know they will come out and stay for months at a time! My husbands family are mainly in Brisbane - his Mum lives in ST Lucia and one of his sisters in Windsor. His other sister lives in Perth and his Dad divides his time between Tasmania, Cyprus and the UK (Nice!). So its Brissie where we will be heading.
I have just sent off for citizenship for all my kids and once thats through will be heading to London to get their Aussie passports. Then in about JUne time (got a holiday in Majorca in May) I plan to kick off with the actual application (keep putting it off....quite daunting!) and we hope to be in Australia at the latest January 08, may have another Xmas here first. We will see.
Thats me, loads more I could say about me and my family adn my situation but will wait for some more of you to come along first!!
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I'll start off - I'm Rachel, British, my husband is dual citizenship UK/Australia as he emigrated with his family when he was 4. He has been living back here in the UK (Harrogate in Yorkshire) for the last 12 years with me! We have been married for 10 years and have three kids, twin boys aged 2 and a 10 week old baby girl.
We've talked about going back to Aus for years and never ever been able to make a decision. Various things have kept us here such as his elderly grandparents who we basically looked after until their deaths in 1999 and 2003; and a small investment in a company that we both worked for. He has now left the company and I am on maternity leave.
We have now made the decision that its time to go for it, the ties we have here are my family who I love dearly but I know they will come out and stay for months at a time! My husbands family are mainly in Brisbane - his Mum lives in ST Lucia and one of his sisters in Windsor. His other sister lives in Perth and his Dad divides his time between Tasmania, Cyprus and the UK (Nice!). So its Brissie where we will be heading.
I have just sent off for citizenship for all my kids and once thats through will be heading to London to get their Aussie passports. Then in about JUne time (got a holiday in Majorca in May) I plan to kick off with the actual application (keep putting it off....quite daunting!) and we hope to be in Australia at the latest January 08, may have another Xmas here first. We will see.
Thats me, loads more I could say about me and my family adn my situation but will wait for some more of you to come along first!!
Rachel
I'm the Aussie, well dual national and my wife is British, well Scottish but since 1707 they haven't been able to issue their own passports.
We met in Melbourne, on the tennis court of course, but we also both happen to be schoolteachers as well. We married in Melbourne but to my wife's eternal regret she did not take out Australian citizenship when we had our 8 years of married life there. We moved from Williamstown to Bendigo and spent 5 great years there and then we moved to Scotland as my wife was very homesick, having originally gone on a 2 year placement but didn't see family, friends and home for nearly 10 years (except for our honeymoon which was a cruise to the UK). We live in a lovely part of Scotland, the south west or the Highlands in miniature as it is sometimes known.
We go back to Williamstown most years for a visit and a while back we bought a property there. At some time in the future we will return to our nice house by the sea with the view of the bay, city centre skyline and the hills beyond but for now we are happy living in Scotland and are fortunate to be able to get the 'best of both worlds'.
When we make the move, we'll have to apply for a Spouse Visa for her but it will be a mere formality and we will be given permanent resident status immediately. I actually came across this website accidently in a search for information on Spouse Visas.
That's it, am I now a fully fledged member of the Spouse Visa Circle?
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Feb 16th 2007, 1:20 pm
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Hi OzTEnnis - yes you are now a member - please send your subscription fees directly to me..
How fab for you having a place in Melbourne as well as here....do you rent it out when you arent there?
How fab for you having a place in Melbourne as well as here....do you rent it out when you arent there?
Feb 16th 2007, 1:27 pm
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still up but def going to bed in a minute! Yes i think i now your hubby its the big nose bit! I cant remember if i new him as Charley though. If it is the same guy he was lovely with a GSOH and if i recall i worked at Michael Langford Travel for a while and the woman i worked with for a bit (might have been called Sue) knew him i think . Ask him if the name Georgina Overend rings a bell I am a Sharp now though.I have red hair and always sadly went to Carringtons ans i always went out with Justine thats how she met Lee as i knew him first (sadly for me ha ha) . I did like your hubby if it is him - though not in that way!! He had quite a dry humour and think he thought i was a bit dizzy. I thought he had a nickname ?
Feb 16th 2007, 1:30 pm
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Sorry now i am really confused and i will get to bed now! I know the name Andy G will have to pm you as others shall be bored and we are off your original thread night night.
Feb 16th 2007, 2:29 pm
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We could rent it out to BE's and BV's but we don't want the place wrecked!
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Feb 16th 2007, 2:37 pm
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Hi All,
Just saw this thread now, so thought I'd say "hi"
I am the British/Aussie dual nationality part of the Spouse visa and my other half is British (by way of India)
We met online in a chat room in 1997 and met in 1998 for real when I flew back to England for 6 weeks and he then later flew to Australia for 10 months. We then moved back to England together in 99 and lived in West London until last Nov when we moved back to Perth!
At the time the application seemed very stressful but in hind sight it was pretty easy, just time consuming whilst collating information. Luckily I am like a magpie and for some reason had visa statements going back to 2000 so we had plenty of documentation to prove our defacto relationship.
The OH has a perm resident visa and has now found work here, contracting for the Dept of Housing whilst I work for a Finance group who specialise in Super and Pensions. We both work in Central Perth.
Anyway just wanted to say Hi....will check back later (when the OH has stopped shouting at me to come watch the DVD he has ready)
Just saw this thread now, so thought I'd say "hi"
I am the British/Aussie dual nationality part of the Spouse visa and my other half is British (by way of India)
We met online in a chat room in 1997 and met in 1998 for real when I flew back to England for 6 weeks and he then later flew to Australia for 10 months. We then moved back to England together in 99 and lived in West London until last Nov when we moved back to Perth!
At the time the application seemed very stressful but in hind sight it was pretty easy, just time consuming whilst collating information. Luckily I am like a magpie and for some reason had visa statements going back to 2000 so we had plenty of documentation to prove our defacto relationship.
The OH has a perm resident visa and has now found work here, contracting for the Dept of Housing whilst I work for a Finance group who specialise in Super and Pensions. We both work in Central Perth.
Anyway just wanted to say Hi....will check back later (when the OH has stopped shouting at me to come watch the DVD he has ready)
Lovely to hear things are working out well for you.....C x
Feb 16th 2007, 2:40 pm
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Now that I've updated the stats I will say hi to everyone!!
Welcome to TWHurl, Charb, Gigi100 and ElshaUK!!
TWHurl - you are in good company as we have another token bloke - Dried Graze in Bendigo!!
Phoenix - will take you up on that lunch offer!! And look what happened when you got sad about being lonely in PErth, along comes ElshaUK and TWHurl to keep you company!!
Gigi100 - do you miss good old Harrogate? Whereabouts did you live and how long for? I am confused......if you are the Aussie what is your sister doing in Harrogate....?
Anyway, my happy news for the day is that the kids Aussie citizenship by descent certificates arrived in the post today!! Hooray!! I didnt realise that there was an Aussie commission in Edinburgh but I might well go up there to get the passports instead.....good idea!!
Welcome to TWHurl, Charb, Gigi100 and ElshaUK!!
TWHurl - you are in good company as we have another token bloke - Dried Graze in Bendigo!!
Phoenix - will take you up on that lunch offer!! And look what happened when you got sad about being lonely in PErth, along comes ElshaUK and TWHurl to keep you company!!
Gigi100 - do you miss good old Harrogate? Whereabouts did you live and how long for? I am confused......if you are the Aussie what is your sister doing in Harrogate....?
Anyway, my happy news for the day is that the kids Aussie citizenship by descent certificates arrived in the post today!! Hooray!! I didnt realise that there was an Aussie commission in Edinburgh but I might well go up there to get the passports instead.....good idea!!
Feb 16th 2007, 2:44 pm
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My name's OzTennis and I'm an alcoholic.... Nah, sorry, wrong confession speech (don't drink actually which goes against the Aussie male stereotype)
I'm the Aussie, well dual national and my wife is British, well Scottish but since 1707 they haven't been able to issue their own passports.
We met in Melbourne, on the tennis court of course, but we also both happen to be schoolteachers as well. We married in Melbourne but to my wife's eternal regret she did not take out Australian citizenship when we had our 8 years of married life there. We moved from Williamstown to Bendigo and spent 5 great years there and then we moved to Scotland as my wife was very homesick, having originally gone on a 2 year placement but didn't see family, friends and home for nearly 10 years (except for our honeymoon which was a cruise to the UK). We live in a lovely part of Scotland, the south west or the Highlands in miniature as it is sometimes known.
We go back to Williamstown most years for a visit and a while back we bought a property there. At some time in the future we will return to our nice house by the sea with the view of the bay, city centre skyline and the hills beyond but for now we are happy living in Scotland and are fortunate to be able to get the 'best of both worlds'.
When we make the move, we'll have to apply for a Spouse Visa for her but it will be a mere formality and we will be given permanent resident status immediately. I actually came across this website accidently in a search for information on Spouse Visas.
That's it, am I now a fully fledged member of the Spouse Visa Circle?
OzTennis
I'm the Aussie, well dual national and my wife is British, well Scottish but since 1707 they haven't been able to issue their own passports.
We met in Melbourne, on the tennis court of course, but we also both happen to be schoolteachers as well. We married in Melbourne but to my wife's eternal regret she did not take out Australian citizenship when we had our 8 years of married life there. We moved from Williamstown to Bendigo and spent 5 great years there and then we moved to Scotland as my wife was very homesick, having originally gone on a 2 year placement but didn't see family, friends and home for nearly 10 years (except for our honeymoon which was a cruise to the UK). We live in a lovely part of Scotland, the south west or the Highlands in miniature as it is sometimes known.
We go back to Williamstown most years for a visit and a while back we bought a property there. At some time in the future we will return to our nice house by the sea with the view of the bay, city centre skyline and the hills beyond but for now we are happy living in Scotland and are fortunate to be able to get the 'best of both worlds'.
When we make the move, we'll have to apply for a Spouse Visa for her but it will be a mere formality and we will be given permanent resident status immediately. I actually came across this website accidently in a search for information on Spouse Visas.
That's it, am I now a fully fledged member of the Spouse Visa Circle?
OzTennis
When do you think you'll make the move the OzTennis? C x
