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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 19th 2013, 3:37 am
Replies: 15
Views: 2,215
Posted By tdib

Re: U.k. National Insurance Contributions

Hi Mike

Would you mind reposting the link to that information please?

I am looking at moving back to the UK from Australia in 2018 and IF I start paying voluntary contributions now AND pay the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 16th 2010, 12:52 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,857
Posted By tdib

Re: Never thought I would be posting on here.

Hi Welsh Heart,

Wow - that's a blast from the past! I remember PB and Dotty back from the days when I was researching the move to Australia. Like you, I regarded them as cynical, nay-saying...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 3rd 2010, 8:20 am
Replies: 23
Views: 6,685
Posted By tdib

Re: Do British chimneys have "flue shutters"?

When me and my brother moved into a flat in London we found a copy of "The Daily Sketch" under the lino. It was from 1958. I still have the front page and its looking like the railwaymen are going on...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 3rd 2010, 8:03 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,654
Posted By tdib

Re: Lincolnshire

Ha ha !

Have a read of this !

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/31/foreign-nurses-taught-english-euphemisms

:D
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 30th 2010, 1:14 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,654
Posted By tdib

Re: Lincolnshire

I went to Lincolnshire "on business" a few times - I think I was visiting Interflora who have offices there. Very rural and the bits I saw were actually very picturesque. Not a lot there though and...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 29th 2010, 9:39 am
Replies: 48
Views: 6,205
Posted By tdib

Re: Should I stop using this forum?

Heh heh.

My son's football team played against East Fremantle last week at their ground. They play in the colours of the Italian flag (a red,white & green strip), the corner flags on the pitch are...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 29th 2010, 5:32 am
Replies: 23
Views: 6,685
Posted By tdib

Re: Do British chimneys have "flue shutters"?

Don't know if they do now.

The house I grew up in had a coal fire and that definitely had a flue-shutter (although I don't remember it being called that). There was a sort of metal loop that hung...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 29th 2010, 5:21 am
Replies: 48
Views: 6,205
Posted By tdib

Re: Should I stop using this forum?

Hi

Its an interesting question. In my previous incarnations I have been skulking around British Expats for a long time - starting out by looking for info on moving to Australia about 10 years ago...
Forum: Australia
Aug 23rd 2010, 12:09 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,447
Posted By tdib

Re: Moving to Australia

Sounds promising for you. Certainly a couple of years ago in WA when the boom was in full swing professions like yours were very much in demand - to a crazy level! I'm sure you wouldn't struggle to...
Forum: Australia
Aug 23rd 2010, 11:54 am
Replies: 26
Views: 2,447
Posted By tdib

Re: Moving to Australia

Hi Jonathon,

Yes - look into getting a visa first because if you can't get that then it all becomes a bit of a moot point.

Polly is right that "seek" is the main jobs website and you can check...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 19th 2010, 9:29 am
Replies: 11
Views: 2,102
Posted By tdib

Re: Flashbacks?

Last night was pretty cold here in Perth and a lot of people must have been using their wood-burning stoves because there was a real smell of woodsmoke in the air. The combination of the cold, dark...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 19th 2010, 9:13 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,206
Posted By tdib

Re: Thinking of heading back

Hi toodlepip,

Re-reading what I said to you - I sound like a bit of a know-it-all. Sorry if it came across that way!

Anyway -I will now open both loungeroom doors so I can get my big-head...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 19th 2010, 7:18 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,206
Posted By tdib

Re: Thinking of heading back

Hi toodlepip,

Just two thoughts...

1) I think - other things being equal - your kids should do all of their secondary schooling in either one country or the other. IMHO its too disruptive to...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 19th 2010, 7:03 am
Replies: 75
Views: 8,265
Posted By tdib

Re: I have made a descion and it feels great!

Ha ha - not at all ! If anything it has made me feel a bit better now that I am not going there ;)

I am actually from Wakefield but I worked in Leeds for 10 years and my first wife's family lived...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 18th 2010, 11:39 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 8,265
Posted By tdib

Re: I have made a descion and it feels great!

When it looked (tantalisingly) like I might be able to move back we were looking at the North Leeds suburbs along the ring road. Horsforth would have been my pick...

Alas and alack - not to be...
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2010, 10:50 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 2,928
Posted By tdib

Re: Scared ... 2 weeks and we be in Perth

Hi B&S - its perfectly normal to have "a bit of a wobble" now that all the planning and dreaming is becoming a reality. Its a nervy / exciting time and I guess if all you were feeling was apathetic...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 8th 2010, 12:47 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 8,265
Posted By tdib

Re: I have made a descion and it feels great!

I had a friend who had "mild" tattooed over one nipple and "bitter" over the other.

Often been tempted to follow suit....;)
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 8th 2010, 8:20 am
Replies: 75
Views: 8,265
Posted By tdib

Re: I have made a descion and it feels great!

I have just checked my "OZ Lotto" ticket and, sadly, there will be no move to Ilkley for me for at least another week:(

I worked in Leeds City Centre for 9 years and I used to love having a walk...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 5th 2010, 11:53 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 9,312
Posted By tdib

Re: Going home!!!

I am from Wakefield but live in Perth. When I go back to Yorkshire on holiday I love the way my accent blends in with everyone elses. Feel like I am back with my own tribe again - ha ha :lol:
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 5th 2010, 10:53 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,486
Posted By tdib

Re: The final painful chapter

Hi Kerina

I sympathize as a marriage break-up whilst living abroad is a lonely experience BUT, as you rightly say, it has brought some clarity to your situation. At least you can now start shaping...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 4th 2010, 11:52 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,234
Posted By tdib

Re: Do peopole who have moved back live their lives differently?

It's a good question but not one I am likely to be able to put to the test anytime soon...:unsure:

Like a lot of migrants I have had a huge wake-up call as to what was right on my own doorstep in...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 4th 2010, 11:29 am
Replies: 46
Views: 16,415
Posted By tdib

Re: families left behind

Phew this thread is a heady emotional brew alright.

I don't have anything to add here that hasn't been said more wisely and eloquently by the other posters. I think I will point my sister towards...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 2nd 2010, 12:20 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 3,963
Posted By tdib

Re: I don't see how we'll ever move back....

Hi

Is your OH's sole motivation to stay having that job with that particular company? If so it must be some job! I know I am stating the obvious but people move from country to country without a...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 2nd 2010, 10:39 am
Replies: 227
Views: 27,028
Posted By tdib

Re: "Inbetweenies" Thread:For those who are definitely returning, but not for a while

That does sound a cut above the typical 800 beef snags,fatty chops,carbonized onions and salad-on-paper-plates I am more used to...;)

An don't forget a trailer-load of cartons of "piss" and a...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 2nd 2010, 10:16 am
Replies: 227
Views: 27,028
Posted By tdib

Re: "Inbetweenies" Thread:For those who are definitely returning, but not for a while

Disagree completely about Christmas in Australia Jon. To me Xmas in Aus is just another backyard BBQ on a hot day - same as most other weekends. If it wasn't for my son I don't think I'd bother with...
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