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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 10th 2008, 3:20 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,136
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Suggestions of what to do in Calgary???

Our kids LOVE the science museum and they have a new bob the builder display there at the moment.
Southland leisure centre is great for kids as it has a slide and waves.
If its nice weather the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 4th 2008, 9:14 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,433
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Mums 'n' Tods / Coffee Mornings etc

I was an NCT teacher in England and the lack of anything similar leaves me at a total loss. I just had to pay $4000 to hire a midwife for my 4th baby!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 10th 2007, 4:51 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 557
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Some help re Mobile PAYG in UK and....

I've got a pay as you go vodafone nokia triband. Works fine between here and England.
To top it up in Canada I have to use an english credit card which is registered on the phone so I can top up by...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 4th 2007, 6:17 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 622
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Calgary car hire

we have used cheap-car-rental 3 times here in Calgary and they are great, was a fantastic deal considering it includes everything, with no hidden extras
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 17th 2007, 1:43 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,361
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Having a baby!!!!!

Thanks , thats great advice.
This is our 4th baby, the last 2 babies were born at home in the uk, one on the floor and one in a pool. This time its costing $4000 to do the same, as we moved to a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 17th 2007, 2:04 am
Replies: 25
Views: 1,361
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Having a baby!!!!!

Thanks for all the info and the congrats everyone!!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 17th 2007, 2:03 am
Replies: 25
Views: 1,361
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Having a baby!!!!!

Do you know where you will be delivering?[/QUOTE]

hopefully on our living room floor!!!!!!!(with a nice team of midwives looking after me!!)
Forum: Canada
May 16th 2007, 9:37 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 4,524
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: If you knew then what you do now would you still move to Canada?

For the kids - yes, they love their school, have loads of friends, lots more to do and would hate to move back.

Me - no, loved it here to begin with but am nearly 2 years on and realise all the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 16th 2007, 9:19 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,361
Posted By ross&carolyn

Smile Having a baby!!!!!

Well we are going to have a wee Canadian in the family!

Just wondered if anyone else has had a baby here on a permanant resident visa, does it mean the baby will be a candian citizen, do we have...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 16th 2007, 9:12 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 2,561
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: My first 4 weeks in Calgary

Mandi,
Sounds like its going great up there in the north !!! Hope you had a good time in Banff.

As for how Canadians keep warm in the winter, well we must really be getting into the Canadian way...
Forum: Canada
Mar 3rd 2007, 10:48 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 1,688
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: New to Calgary

Hi Mandi
We live in Somerset in the SW and have 3 kids as well, of similar ages. A son of 12 as well as a daughter of 10 and a son who is nearly 4.
Would be happy to help out with any info I can....
Forum: Canada
Nov 17th 2005, 3:11 am
Replies: 2
Views: 392
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Schools in Calgary

hi that was me - its the milton williams creative arts school based at willowpark school in the SE. There was a very comprehensive application to fill out with refences from teachers and a letter...
Forum: Canada
Nov 17th 2005, 3:07 am
Replies: 22
Views: 6,153
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: post from Canada to UK

i posted 2 letters the same day, one to the insurance broker who is in calgary (as we are) and one to england to my mum - guess which got there first??!!

Calgary to england 6 days

calgary to...
Forum: Canada
Nov 16th 2005, 3:14 am
Replies: 104
Views: 7,314
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Talking to Canadians - culture shock

They all seem to recognise a northern accent due to coronation street being on back to back all weekend!!!! I'm from Devon and apparently sound australian!!
Forum: Canada
Nov 15th 2005, 2:58 am
Replies: 52
Views: 3,162
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Question about Canadian educational system

I have found the schools on the whole very good here.

In Calgary they have normal run of the mill schools and then schools that specialize in different ways of learning like the science school,...
Forum: Canada
Nov 15th 2005, 2:46 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,429
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Big garden in Calgary

grade four
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 6:18 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,521
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Any veggies there?

its not vegetarian baby food, hipp and organix make meat products its just that its organic, which a lot of parents look for when feeding their babies.
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 6:10 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,429
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Big garden in Calgary

we have a wooden fence on the sides but the chain link fence at the back has to stay.
we ideally wanted a lake community - sundance was the favourite because of the schools but to honest we don't...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 3:10 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 881
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Leaving parties

I had lots of lunches out with different friends (ended up going to canada a stone heavier!)
The friends I met at antenatal classes years ago had a big lunch for me and I knew I was in trouble when...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 2:53 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 3,429
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Big garden in Calgary

ha ha $309K

I live in somerset the house 2 doors up is mls c3191565.

Its a great place to live its been fantastic having the big green area behind us with the playpark, the kids were able to...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 4:19 am
Replies: 25
Views: 1,521
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Any veggies there?

No organix or hipp organic or any baby ranges like that, more recently heinz have started doing veggie baby food but I never felt they had quite the same ethos or quality as hipp or organix.

In...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 4:12 am
Replies: 30
Views: 2,692
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Has / Is anyone in a similar position to us??????

Research hard where you intend to move too. Here in Calgary its very much an employees market with employers almost fighting over employees!!!

I moved here with my husband, he got a job in finance...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 4:00 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,229
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Organising a Canadian mortgage

We came over and bought in May but didn't move here until July, it didn't count as a second property as we had sold our english house.
As long as we had 35% or more to put down the banks were very...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 3:57 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,429
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Big garden in Calgary

we looked at houses in older areas that had lovely gardens but in the end decided to go for a newer house with a smaller garden because we wanted to live near familys with younger kids, there didn't...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2005, 3:44 am
Replies: 104
Views: 7,314
Posted By ross&carolyn

Re: Talking to Canadians - culture shock

I have been here 4 months now and work in a childrens clothes shop, so for everyone moving here with kids here is the rundown of english to canadian translations

waist coat = vest
gillet = vest...
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