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Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2005, 1:00 am
Replies: 42
Views: 2,458
Posted By cutgrass

Re: A wood burner can damage your health..

You'll probably use 3 tonnes of red gum a year if it's your only form of heating. We do.

It's the best heating we ever had. Back in the UK we lived in our little double glazed house, sealed into...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2005, 12:51 am
Replies: 21
Views: 1,183
Posted By cutgrass

Re: Trivial cheese question!

Being a total cheese addict, and having lived here for 14 months I can tell you that if you look hard enough you will get ANY cheese here.

Australian cheese is pretty sad. An entire supermarket...
Forum: Australia
Feb 1st 2005, 2:59 am
Replies: 31
Views: 1,947
Posted By cutgrass

Re: hello from yorkshire

Here's some advice for when you get here (from a Yorkshire man living in Melbourne).

Speak slowly. When you switch into Yorkshire saying you might as well be speaking French. They will not...
Forum: Australia
Jan 10th 2005, 4:02 am
Replies: 7
Views: 650
Posted By cutgrass

Re: Advice on CV writing for Aussie employers

Although my experience is firmly in the IT management sector it's probably worth sharing.

Australian CV's are MUCH longer than UK CV's. I had a 2 page CV describing 7 years experience, and it...
Forum: Australia
Oct 29th 2004, 3:49 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,128
Posted By cutgrass

Re: There goes my UK career

I had exactly the same thing happen to me. Apart from how they found out. I got my reference directly from HR so nobody found out about it, but then they offered voluntary redundancy so I applied.
...
Forum: Australia
Oct 19th 2004, 6:08 am
Replies: 5
Views: 646
Posted By cutgrass

Re: Taking my laptop to Oz

Go to www.whirpool.net.au to find out about all the ISP's on offer.

Wireless connectivity is more common than plugging anything in.
Forum: Australia
Oct 19th 2004, 6:06 am
Replies: 3
Views: 415
Posted By cutgrass

Re: Palm Organiser in Aus

Salary packaging or tax claims can offset some of the costs. I work in IT so any hardware spend I make is half price once I claim back the tax.
Forum: Australia
Aug 5th 2004, 3:31 am
Replies: 4
Views: 520
Posted By cutgrass

It was me who complained. I thought the sketch...

It was me who complained. I thought the sketch was horrible.

For many of us '80s kids Christopher Reeve IS Superman. He was a total icon. It's also a total tragedy for him that he's a...
Forum: Australia
Aug 5th 2004, 1:32 am
Replies: 4
Views: 520
Posted By cutgrass

Melbourne - Nova 100 FM Listeners

Does anyone in Melbourne listen to Nova 100 in the morning (this morning)?

Did anyone here them talk about someone complaining about a Christopher Reeve joke they made a while ago and if so - can...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2004, 3:35 am
Replies: 3
Views: 427
Posted By cutgrass

Sound Proofing on buildings - caution

We're renting a unit and just got new neighbours, after the next door unit being empty since we moved in. The noise has been terrible and it's not in any way their fault.

We had them round for...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2004, 3:24 am
Replies: 11
Views: 808
Posted By cutgrass

We didnt go to Brisbane but went to Melbourne -...

We didnt go to Brisbane but went to Melbourne - we had exactly the same problem though.

We went into a serviced apartment first - expensive but only short term, we booked over the internet and...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2004, 3:49 am
Replies: 201
Views: 9,205
Posted By cutgrass

There is nothing in Melbourne to compare to the...

There is nothing in Melbourne to compare to the cheapness and convenience of Asda. But we knew that before we came.

My wife is an obsessive economiser and she took it as a personal challenge to...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2004, 3:16 am
Replies: 13
Views: 879
Posted By cutgrass

Remember that anything you spend on a tax...

Remember that anything you spend on a tax accountant is tax deductable. So you will get a portion of it back.

Also a tax accountant gets longer to send in your return than you do because they get...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2004, 3:13 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,270
Posted By cutgrass

Normal office hours in Melbourne appear to be...

Normal office hours in Melbourne appear to be 8.30 to 5.30. The 40 hour working week is expected as standard (minimum). I also commute 40 mins each way. So the working day is pretty long I would...
Forum: Australia
Jul 14th 2004, 3:22 am
Replies: 59
Views: 4,375
Posted By cutgrass

Just thought I'd answer a few questions that...

Just thought I'd answer a few questions that popped up in the responses:

In terms of IT salary - yes, I got lucky. I have less responsibility in terms of people management than my job in the UK...
Forum: Australia
Jun 30th 2004, 1:04 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 4,375
Posted By cutgrass

First 2 months in Melbourne

Having been a leech for the year leading up to our migration (i.e. reading everyone's stuff but not contributing that much) I can now give something back to the forum that helped me prepare for the...
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2004, 7:57 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 429
Posted By cutgrass

teaching jobs melbourne

can anyone tell me the best place to look for teaching positions (ages 5-11) in melbourne, Catholic or other?
Forum: Australia
Apr 6th 2004, 11:36 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,259
Posted By cutgrass

Sorry, what I'm saying is that reducing tax...

Sorry, what I'm saying is that reducing tax doesn't automaticaly make a property cheaper.

If VAT were abolished in the UK would goods become cheaper or would retailers simply make more profit?
...
Forum: Australia
Apr 6th 2004, 11:20 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,259
Posted By cutgrass

Do these policies tend to spread? Just wondered...

Do these policies tend to spread? Just wondered what the odds of this being taken up by Victoria are.

Since property purchases are all about affordability, and we include in that calculation the...
Forum: Australia
Apr 5th 2004, 3:22 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 491
Posted By cutgrass

Insurance Problem

We appear to be having some difficulty getting the goods we are travelling to Australia on the flight with insured.

We have been told that travel insurance is not available to us because it's a...
Forum: Australia
Apr 2nd 2004, 12:48 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 2,612
Posted By cutgrass

Anyone mocks my Yorkshire accent I'll be whupping...

Anyone mocks my Yorkshire accent I'll be whupping their ass with my Ecky Thump.

So now to a trivia questions: who knows what Ecky Thump is?
Forum: Australia
Apr 2nd 2004, 12:26 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 2,612
Posted By cutgrass

I'm hoping that my Yorkshire accent makes me...

I'm hoping that my Yorkshire accent makes me sound exotic.

I remember when we were looking at sites to put a call centre at work reading some study that said the Yorkshire and Scottish accents...
Forum: Australia
Mar 19th 2004, 9:31 am
Replies: 5
Views: 779
Posted By cutgrass

I once got called. The caller said to me...

I once got called.

The caller said to me "this is HSBC can you give me your date of birth"

I said "why".

They said "we can't tell you"

I said "then I'm not giving you my date of birth"
Forum: Australia
Mar 19th 2004, 9:08 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,203
Posted By cutgrass

I can also say that HSBC's service is pretty...

I can also say that HSBC's service is pretty good. We opened an on-line savings account, which is essentially a current account that you are expected to manage on-line. It seems to be reasonably...
Forum: Australia
Mar 18th 2004, 1:46 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,581
Posted By cutgrass

Excellent. That's exactly the response I was...

Excellent. That's exactly the response I was hoping for. Thanks.
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