Thank you! Hopefully you are next...drop your CO an email, may have been a coincidence, but may give them a nudge

Moving on to the next stress stage now, renting the house, outing loadsa stuff and moving into a carvan to save a few more quid!

Fantastic News Sue.........You can cope with the next stage stress because you know you have the golden ticket....hopefully our path's will cross at some point

We lived in a caravan for a year while we built our house in 2007. Me, hubby, 2 kids, dog, cat and kitten.........one hell of an adventure!!!
I'd advise getting the widest caravan (think it was 12ft) as it makes a massive difference and buy some fans as they are boiling in the summer and freezing in the winter! Me and kids used to get dressed under the quilt in the morning as it was just too cold to get undressed
One good thing is there's hardly any housework to do, you just have to be really organised..........I ran our caravan like a military barracks to keep it tidy!

I'm going to send an e-mail, hopefully it will give them a little nudge in the right direction. Thanks Sue x

Exactly, all the planning now is the exciting stuff, now we know we are going! We can stay in touch on here and maybe meet up for a BBQ one day in Oz!

Good luck with everything

Defo keep in touch, so pleased you got your visa....when do you think you will be coming out? We leave on 21st June overnight in singapore then a short flight into perth

Let me know if i can help you in anyway.

We are looking at Sept/Oct time, as we dont think we have enough money saved yet. Would like to have a comfortable month off when we land. We were hoping to do the same as you, overnight in Singapore then on to Perth. Definately stay in touch! Good luck

Well Done. Where are you heading

Perth, absolutely no idea what area we intend to save enough to take a month or so off, hire a caravan or mobile home and tour until we find somewhere we like, good for work and schools for the kids

well in great news, doesnt it all seem worth while all of a sudden!!!!!!

Thats the problem with WA it is a huge place, and we have to go where the jobs are. Might see you there we are hoping to be over there the same time.

Would be good for us (John1 and Babysinead) to stay in touch as we have made the final visa journey together

BBQ sounds good!!

We were discussing today wether to bother shipping or not.....we have no furniture of any value. Really all we would be taking are some personal effects, photos, clothes, toys etc. Cant decide wether worth shipping tvs, surround sound etc, will it work ok out there?? We have to ship hubbies tools (Carpenter) so is it worth throwing a few more boxes in? I have not idea how small a shipment you can send and what the costs are! Decisions decisions

Sue we are taking nothing, apart from sentimental stuff that we are going to have posted out at a later date (until then will stay in the fathers in laws garage) we have sold nearly all our stuff and have got some good prices for things, but i believe that you can hire 1/2 a 20ft container (or 1/4 worth asking) crown relocations are meant to be the best and they can be haggled on price. We got a quote for a 20ft container, 5k !!!!! no thanks. Their is a massive IKEA in WA so when we get our perm rental we will pop their and furnish the house, cheaper.
TV's do work but they are about the same price to buy as here....so why have the extra cost of shipping.

Love to all stay in touch.

Thats great, thanks for the advice. None of our tvs etc are not pricey ones, just £300 new, so we can probably buy the same second hand over there. Was thinking the same, storing the photos etc in a garage and sending them by courier once we have a fixed abode. I think you are allowed two suitcases each on the flight anyway! Will have to ship hubbies tools, but not enough for a container, will have to find out best way to send them. Maybe a post on the tradies thread.

Sooooooo exciting! Just trying to sort out this house to rent out and book us in a caravan now! Will definately stay in touch

I'm with Soapsud sue we are taking nothing but sentimental stuff and having it shipped later as well. If you have anything wooden it has to be treated at a cost anyway.
New life, new everything I say

All Wood??? We have solid oak bedroom furniture and solid Wood Next dinning room furniture we were going to take. Will all that have to be treated? If anyone knows the answer please reply as we paid a lot of money for this furniture 2yrs ago and really wanted to take it with us. Thanks