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Forum: Australia
Aug 1st 2005, 6:20 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,454
Posted By Margie

Re: Can i ask for your honest opinions & thoughts

Hello, I'm scared too!!! :scared:

House sold, jobs resigned, cars sold and goodbye party held! Flights booked for 12.8.05. packing up and thinking OH MY GOD!!! I can't do this.

Cat goes to new...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Aug 1st 2005, 6:11 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,478
Posted By Margie

Re: Visa Received - Initial Entry Date to Aus?

We got ours in Jan this year and had to visit by 23rd Aug to validate.

We asked if only 1 person could visit or if we could postpone the visit. Told, no we all had to validate in 6 months or move...
Forum: Australia
Aug 1st 2005, 6:33 am
Replies: 57
Views: 3,989
Posted By Margie

Re: How low can family stoop?

Donna,

Sorry to hear this. How family never fail to surprise us!! :mad:

Anyway, we are all here for you. You've got to get it out, don't bottle it up. So moan away. We're going through the...
Forum: Australia
Jul 29th 2005, 5:08 pm
Replies: 189
Views: 10,916
Posted By Margie

Re: To the cowards who have sent me bad karma - why??

Don't let them put you off!!
I know I sometimes think twice or delete a reply because I expect the "twats" to make their "comments".

We're packing up now ready to leave in 2 weeks to come to...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 26th 2005, 7:59 am
Replies: 9
Views: 489
Posted By Margie

Re: Another hurdle cleared!!! It was good too!

Morning!

Yes we'll have to get some photo's!

Your hubby is right, things all just fall into place. We settled for a mid-way offer between our lowest acceptable offer and what we hoped it may go...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 26th 2005, 7:51 am
Replies: 5
Views: 2,721
Posted By Margie

Re: Are there "left luggage facilities" in Dubai Airport?

Thanks,
will look into that possibility.

Margie
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 25th 2005, 8:00 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 2,721
Posted By Margie

Question Are there "left luggage facilities" in Dubai Airport?

Can anyone advise?

Having a stop over in Dubai, on the way to Perth. 4 cases all around the 40kilo weight. We'd rather just take the one for the holiday onto the hotel and leave the rest to be...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 25th 2005, 4:13 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 489
Posted By Margie

Re: Another hurdle cleared!!! It was good too!

Yes you can drink, but only in bars and restaraunts.
The Burj Al Arab offered us tea in the Sky Bar, but as it is a bar the children cannot go, so we are in the 2nd floor lobby. Sure it will be out...
Forum: Australia
Jul 25th 2005, 4:04 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,189
Posted By Margie

Re: telling mum

Hi
How long until you actually leave?

I told my mum when we sent off the application, so she has had time to get her head around the fact we'd be going.

We told her quietly together and stated...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 25th 2005, 3:49 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 489
Posted By Margie

Re: Another hurdle cleared!!! It was good too!

Yes, flying with Emirates.
Used Quantas last time from Heathrow via Singapore.
Now Emirates go from Glasgow so it cuts the trip to London off and shortens the time for us.

Jeff has his Birthday,...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 25th 2005, 3:33 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 489
Posted By Margie

Re: Another hurdle cleared!!! It was good too!

Hi,
we leave the UK on 12.8.05, but we're stopping in Dubai on the way.
Arrive Perth on 17.8.05.

The party was much easier than I thought. I was expecting to cry as people left,but no it was...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 25th 2005, 3:04 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 489
Posted By Margie

Talking Another hurdle cleared!!! It was good too!

Hi,

We had our BIG leaving party on Saturday night.
After getting worried about nobody turning up, as you do, heaps of friends, work mates, neighbours and family appeared.

Even my big sister,...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2005, 5:23 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 3,350
Posted By Margie

Re: where are you in Perth?

Hi Lynn,

Sounds like a great place!
We fly out 3 weeks tonight to Perth.

Unsure of all areas and all guidance is a big help. Like the look of Hillary's and northern suburbs.

You say real...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2005, 5:08 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 455
Posted By Margie

Re: Looking For Some Cyber Friends / Pen Pals

Hi Jane and Russ,

We go to Perth 3 weeks today! Big party tomorrow night!
We have 2 girls, Rachel is 9 (10 in Jan) and Hannah is 6 (7 in Nov).

They have been really laid back and taken it all...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2005, 4:06 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,049
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else doing last day at school?

Bet you'll sing it all day now!
Know Fairford too.
Will keep in touch and hear how things go.

Cheers
Margie :beer:
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2005, 1:32 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,049
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else doing last day at school?

Sure is a small world.

Out of interest, did you grow up in Tetbury or go to Sir William Romney's school?

We visited Disneyland resort Paris at Easter, they have a ride called It's a Small...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2005, 12:48 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,049
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else doing last day at school?

Hi,

My girls finished school at the end of June when it broke for the summer hols.
They took it in their stride, it was the teachers, other mums, the headmistress and I who were in tears!

Our...
Forum: Australia
Jul 21st 2005, 6:46 am
Replies: 7
Views: 600
Posted By Margie

Re: we're here!!

Hi Natalie,

Thanks for your post.
We arrive in Perth on 17th August. Things are getting very stressful here, goodbyes, worrying over getting jobs and the exchange rate! So many negative threads...
Forum: Australia
Jul 18th 2005, 2:34 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,757
Posted By Margie

Re: Totally sh***ig ourselves !!!

Judy,

It seems there are several of us at this stage at the moment. I started a thread last week . We have 3.5 weeks to go and last week my sister gave me grief about how she's going to cope with...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 15th 2005, 5:48 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else been on a guilt trip?

Kay,

We visited Perth a year last Easter.
3 weeks, more holiday than a rekkie.

We are vaguely familiar with the area we wish to settle in. Having some family there will help.


Sorry if...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 15th 2005, 4:00 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else been on a guilt trip?

Jeremy,
Thanks for your comtribution,
not looked into this, great idea!

Margie
Forum: Australia
Jul 14th 2005, 4:30 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 3,413
Posted By Margie

Re: Our update A Year in Perth

Jill,

Thank you for a great post! I hope can do the same next year.

We arrive in Perth on 17.8.05.

Same ideas, we do not hate the Uk, I love my Scotland and adore Ireland, where hubby comes...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 14th 2005, 4:05 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else been on a guilt trip?

Hi Kay,

Thanks for your post. It is so hard, but it really helps to talk to others, like yourself who are going through it too!

I'm 41 and the children 6 and 9 , my dad died 3 weeks after the...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 14th 2005, 3:49 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Margie

Re: Anyone else been on a guilt trip?

Thanks for the Karma!
Your support appreciated

Margie
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 14th 2005, 12:58 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Margie

Anyone else been on a guilt trip?

Just need to vent some pent up feelings. Sorry if this is old news!
Here goes.

Advised close family last June (2004) of our application, some took the news better than others. My elder sibling...
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