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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jul 27th 2019, 9:47 am
Replies: 3
Views: 416
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Getting new passport when in UK for 2 weeks

Thanks for the advice BritInParis. I just hate sending my precious original birth certificate.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jul 26th 2019, 10:33 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 416
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Getting new passport when in UK for 2 weeks

i am visiting UK in October for about 10 days from Australia . I have an old black passport which expired in 1994 - so I have to do a NEW passport application .My relatives are near Newcastle , so I...
Forum: Back Home
Jul 21st 2019, 8:40 am
Replies: 16
Views: 7,731
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: 4 year update.

Novocastrian,
How was it moving back to N/C ?
We are hoping to move back from Australia later this year. I left Northumberland in 1974 and my wife (Gateshead) left 25 years ago. Of course we have...
Forum: Back Home
Oct 1st 2018, 10:49 am
Replies: 70
Views: 36,878
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Why did I not love this country before???????

A great post - sounds like you really have made the right choice.How I envy your contentment.
We are planning to come back to UK (we both grew up in the the NE) - for me after going to OZ in 1974....
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 1st 2018, 10:11 am
Replies: 5
Views: 6,463
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Back to the UK with 2 teens, GCSE Year 11 and Year 9

I might need help too! We are considering moving to UK in 2019 from OZ. our son is doing Yr 11 here but cannot handle what is effectively A level English - it is compulsory and if you don't pass it -...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 16th 2017, 7:18 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 990
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Considering moving back to UK for OZ with girl in yr 11 and boy in yr 10

Thanks for your experience - we would go now -IF we could sell the house. Unfortunately,all our capital is tied up in it and we don't have enough cash to just go and hope for the best.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 16th 2017, 10:08 am
Replies: 9
Views: 990
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Considering moving back to UK for OZ with girl in yr 11 and boy in yr 10

We are both from NE , OH is a real Geordie whereas I am a Northumbrian. I have been in OZ since 1974 .Both of us married Aussies (both mistakes but then we would have never met over here!) and we...
Forum: Australia
Feb 25th 2017, 9:11 am
Replies: 42
Views: 4,906
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: UK social worker looking to work and live in Victoria - advice please

Frankston is like any suburb with social problems - bad parts in North Frankston, around the railway station, drugs , violence, crime. But that's pretty much everywhere these days . If you look at...
Forum: Australia
Feb 25th 2017, 9:04 am
Replies: 42
Views: 4,906
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: UK social worker looking to work and live in Victoria - advice please

I suggest you use www.domain.com.au or www.realestate.com.au to check the prices in Frankston, Hastings and Crib Point. Unless you are going to an auction to buy a house, I am pretty sure that if...
Forum: Australia
Feb 24th 2017, 3:48 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 4,906
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: UK social worker looking to work and live in Victoria - advice please

If you want to be near the beaches - I would choose Frankston.
The lifestyle down on the Mornington Peninsula is great (we live in Balnarring) bayside (sheltered ) and ocean side beaches, over 60...
Forum: Australia
Feb 24th 2017, 9:34 am
Replies: 42
Views: 4,906
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: UK social worker looking to work and live in Victoria - advice please

Err. Make a positive suggestion rather than criticising mine.
Forum: Australia
Feb 24th 2017, 5:07 am
Replies: 42
Views: 4,906
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: UK social worker looking to work and live in Victoria - advice please

Hi,
I would recommend Frankston - it is much cheaper than other suburbs on Port Phillip Bay , is on train line to Melbourne (1 hour and a good service from Melbourne ). Like all places "cheaper" ,...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 14th 2017, 6:43 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 4,430
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: wanting to return after 59 years.

I didn't realise it would be so simple - thanks for the advice. Now the difficult bit of leaving OZ!
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 13th 2017, 8:27 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,947
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Moving back to UK from Sydney, Australia

Thanks Novocastrian. I guess the problem is I had so many relatives and connections with N/C - but they are either dead now and have scattered to other part of the U.K. I think it would be hard to go...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 12th 2017, 8:11 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,947
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Moving back to UK from Sydney, Australia

Did you move back to NE - or somewhere different? I have been in Melbourne since 1974 and thinking of come back to UK to retire. My wife is from Gateshead and me from Ponteland but cannot image going...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 12th 2017, 8:02 am
Replies: 29
Views: 4,430
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: wanting to return after 59 years.

And "southerner" means anyone south of the Tyne ( refer to Ross Noble) . Personally I come from Ponteland - once a proud Northumbrian village but almost a suburb of the Toon now.
But I digress - I...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 30th 2016, 7:46 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,303
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Thanks Quokka.
I am still resident in Australia - so not sure whether I will need to be UK to get the pension or can get it sent to OZ.
I have sent an email to Longbenton.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 30th 2016, 1:01 am
Replies: 266
Views: 37,303
Posted By Exnorthumbrian

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Hi,
I worked in UK for about 18 months, then came out to Australia in 1974 and worked here. Does that mean that I can add 27 years (1974- 2001) onto my "UK pension years" to make 28.5 .?
Can you...
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