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Forum: Australia
Jun 6th 2010, 11:25 am
Replies: 433
Views: 131,381
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Renewal of UK Passports in OZ.

If you're near central Sydney, the PO in the Broadway Centre (Glebe) is fantastic. Open Saturday mornings and no need to book an appointment at any time for passport applications, UK or Aus. I've...
Forum: Australia
Aug 7th 2009, 6:23 am
Replies: 51
Views: 6,400
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Citizenship Test

Just thought I'd update this thread with our experiences in Sydney this week.

We (my wife Louise and I) had to wait about three months for a test date (booked 13th May for a test on 3rd August)...
Forum: Australia
Aug 24th 2007, 9:38 am
Replies: 32
Views: 2,298
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: UK banks which are best to access from Aus

I've got accounts with both Royal Bank of Scotland (who know I'm in Australia) and first direct (who don't) which both have online access from Australia.
Forum: Australia
Aug 17th 2006, 12:28 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 709
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Rent

I get paid fortnightly here, so I wanted to pay the rent fortnightly. Seemed sensible to me. Nope, even though every property you look at has a price quoted per week you can only pay it at a...
Forum: Australia
Aug 17th 2006, 12:23 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 2,213
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Anyone emigrating with a baby?

We brought our little boy over when he was about 6 months old. Stopped for three nights in Singapore on the way and he (and we) pretty much adjusted whilst we were there, so when we landed in Sydney...
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2006, 9:34 am
Replies: 41
Views: 2,409
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: UK Bank account - shall we keep it open?

The Royal Bank of Scotland are quite happy that we live in Sydney and send all correspondence to our address here no problems. We're renting out our UK house so there's a fair bit of money still...
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2006, 9:27 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,518
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: How to get Oz driving licence?

They stopped doing this about three months ago. I got mine done when we first arrived and they punched a hole in my UK licence. When Mrs R got round to doing hers, she went in on a Friday afternoon...
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2006, 9:16 am
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Local Removal Companies - Sydney

Sadly we need someone to do it for us - both Mrs R and myself have bad backs, we might get half the job done but we'd never move the double bed or the fridge!
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2006, 9:14 am
Replies: 29
Views: 1,925
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: UK schools versus Aussie Schools

Not a scientific example, but my wife was a University Lecturer in the UK. When we first arrived here she did a bit of teaching in a TAFE (FE college), teaching students who came to the college one...
Forum: Australia
Aug 14th 2006, 8:56 am
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By gavinrobertson

Local Removal Companies - Sydney

Anyone have any recommendations for someone to do a local removal within Sydney? We've decided we don't much like the house we've been renting the past six months, and are moving a few streets away...
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2006, 12:10 am
Replies: 3
Views: 492
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: John Masons

If they've told you your container number, put it into this site here http://www.track-trace.com/container.php and it should tell you what's happened to it.
Forum: Australia
Jul 8th 2006, 12:06 am
Replies: 35
Views: 7,679
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Anyone know where you can buy Hula Hoops in Oz??

Marmite is in quite a lot of supermarkets here, it's called My Mate but it's the same stuff.
Forum: Australia
Jul 2nd 2006, 12:26 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 3,013
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Recent Experience Of John Mason

No, that was how long it took. They collected it in mid Feb, but as it was a part load it didn't ship until late March. We were told it'd be in Sydney at the start of May, but when that date...
Forum: Australia
Jun 28th 2006, 11:39 am
Replies: 35
Views: 3,013
Posted By gavinrobertson

Well everything arrived yesterday, only four and...

Well everything arrived yesterday, only four and a half months after it was packed up in the UK. All seems OK apart from a chest of drawers that's seriously damaged but fortunately insured. Now...
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2006, 10:41 am
Replies: 35
Views: 7,679
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Anyone know where you can buy Hula Hoops in Oz??

There's also http://www.britishsweets.com.au/ who have a real shop in Glebe Point Road. They do stock Hula Hoops, according to the website. We went there for some gravy browning. Mrs R is addicted...
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2006, 10:21 am
Replies: 7
Views: 651
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Considering driving upon arriving in Sydney?

Another reason for not driving when you arrive is that, if you rent a car from the airport, you're pay an Airport surcharge on every day of the hire. So if you've booked a car for a month, that's a...
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2006, 9:59 am
Replies: 32
Views: 2,400
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Credit card

We opened a bank account with Westpac from the UK before we moved. When we arrived we had to go to the branch to prove who we were. They told us we could have a credit card if we wanted even though...
Forum: Australia
Jun 8th 2006, 11:15 am
Replies: 35
Views: 3,013
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Recent Experience Of John Mason

They packed our stuff in the middle of Feb in the UK, and we still haven't got it. We were told it'd get to Sydney in April, turned out it only got to Singapore then. It's June now...
Forum: Australia
May 1st 2006, 11:50 am
Replies: 24
Views: 1,489
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Laptop advice please.

That's what we did - bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 when we got here. It cost us $1500 four weeks ago and it's gone down $50 already! The knowledge that Dell will fix it no questions asked if it goes...
Forum: Australia
May 1st 2006, 11:41 am
Replies: 9
Views: 670
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: asthma in Oz

Have a search through the forums, there have been several previous threads about this. Pollen related asthma is apparently quite bad in Sydney in Spring. A lot depends on which part of the country...
Forum: Australia
Apr 30th 2006, 5:05 am
Replies: 5
Views: 580
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Shipping - How long did yours take

We left at the end of Feb, but because we had a part container our stuff waited weeks to leave the UK. It's on its way now, but I don't expect to see it much before the end of May, which will be...
Forum: Australia
Mar 19th 2006, 1:44 am
Replies: 82
Views: 6,458
Posted By gavinrobertson

Aaagh! I only just found this today, we'd have...

Aaagh! I only just found this today, we'd have gone along yesterday if we'd known. We've been here three weeks but haven't been on-line at all till today. We nearly went to Balmoral yesterday but...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 2nd 2006, 8:09 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,063
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Selling a car on Ebay?

I've just sold my car on e-bay, advertised as must collect by 4th Feb, as I don't want it sitting on the drive when the taxi comes to take me to the airport.

Two days after the auction ends, the...
Forum: Australia
Jan 31st 2006, 10:37 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 893
Posted By gavinrobertson

Re: Renting question.

This might sound a bit stupid, but I take it you provided photocopies of all these documents? Just trying to work out what we need to take, I was going to put together a little pack with photocopies...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2006, 10:14 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 669
Posted By gavinrobertson

What did you wish you'd taken?

Mrs Robertson is keen that she doesn't spend her first week in Australia endlessly saying 'Goodness me - I wonder why I didn't put one of those in our baggage?' (or some similar turn of phrase!). ...
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