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Forum: The Barbie
Nov 22nd 2006, 12:54 am
Replies: 0
Views: 322
Posted By robs12

What's in my sock??!!

Am in the fortunate position of just having moved into a house with pool. It's a salt water pool with a auto Chlorinator, and all seems to work fine with no adjustments needed to keep the water where...
Forum: Australia
Oct 23rd 2006, 12:26 pm
Replies: 41
Views: 2,603
Posted By robs12

Re: Quality is Australia's biggest enemy...

It's not all bad...a couple of weeks ago we bought some bedroom furniture & a mattress for ourselves, & two mattresses & beds for the kids. None of it expensive...in fact quite cheap. When the...
Forum: Australia
Oct 20th 2006, 12:55 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,005
Posted By robs12

Re: Anyone recently researched best & cheapest small cars?

We just got a new Jazz & V impressed - it feels much bigger than it looks, & is quiet & comfy. The interior is better than the Getz (IMHO), but then again, it's more expensive. Averaging 5.1lt/100km....
Forum: Australia
Oct 20th 2006, 12:45 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 872
Posted By robs12

Re: Tracking your Container?

We have some stuff on the Chasdine Maersk (& I won't go into the gruesome detailsof our shipping company yet, but it has been bad news from the start...). We are told it is due into Perth approx 15th...
Forum: Australia
Sep 29th 2006, 2:10 pm
Replies: 154
Views: 11,977
Posted By robs12

Re: Rip off Australia!

Just bought a brand new Honda Jazz 1.3 GLi (1.3 SE in UK) for $17775 OTR = £7100...
a new CRV is being 'cleared' out for <$30K = £12K..so cars (at least Hondas) are much cheaper.
Petrol is <...
Forum: Australia
Sep 8th 2006, 8:58 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 592
Posted By robs12

Re: Any Ideas On Short Term Investment With Equity From House While Waiting For Visa?

Not qualified to give financial advice, DYOR etc etc
We sold ours last week. Planning to keep £ for now..until such time as rate moves in favour (which IMHO it will in next few (6-12) months)....
Forum: Australia
Sep 2nd 2006, 5:30 pm
Replies: 43
Views: 3,373
Posted By robs12

Re: OH MY GOD! Just had the quotation for shipping

Fairly sure that's not right - any DVD will play in any DVD player, as long as the player is multiregion, which most are (or usually can be made so by entering a code).
A UK TV will not work if you...
Forum: Australia
Sep 2nd 2006, 3:31 pm
Replies: 43
Views: 3,373
Posted By robs12

Re: OH MY GOD! Just had the quotation for shipping

We've just moved 280cu ft - quoted at £7.06 per cu ft, including packing & unpacking boxes, packing materials, door to door South Coast UK to Perth. But that doesn't include insurance.
With us...
Forum: Australia
Aug 29th 2006, 5:52 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,654
Posted By robs12

Re: Credit rating in Oz

Don't know if it would be of any use or not (but I got one anyway) - you can get a credit report from Equifax for £2. Order & pay on line & it arrives in the post a couple of days later - addresses &...
Forum: Australia
Aug 27th 2006, 3:01 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 648
Posted By robs12

New car prices?

Anyone know of a website where one can get a real life OTR (on the road) price for a new car? (E.g equivalent to the 'Target prices' given in What Car mag in the UK - What you should be really aiming...
Forum: Australia
Aug 25th 2006, 5:33 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,081
Posted By robs12

Re: OMG - packers have arrived - we are really doing this!!

Ours is all gone also - took a while since only one guy turned up.... With only 15 boxes. No clothes boxes, no bike box, nothing for the mattress. Ran out of tape before it was all done. ....Didn't...
Forum: Australia
Aug 23rd 2006, 5:09 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,081
Posted By robs12

Re: OMG - packers have arrived - we are really doing this!!

Packers due in here on Friday...currently living in boxes & cleaning bikes!
Sounds like we're leaving in droves...last one out don't forget to turn off the lights.. :D
Forum: Australia
Aug 9th 2006, 7:06 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,932
Posted By robs12

Re: two year wait???can it be true??

Took just over 1.5 years from when we first applied to when we got the e-mail...applied Jan 2004, got visa Oct 2005...we did it ourselves, & there were no holdups/problems...
When we finally got...
Forum: Australia
Aug 3rd 2006, 8:58 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,112
Posted By robs12

Re: Currency exchange - any ideas??

UK interest rate increase today - give it a couple of days (or even one..) & I reckon we'll be back at 2.5.
Forum: Australia
Aug 2nd 2006, 6:48 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,481
Posted By robs12

Re: Rising House Prices in Perth

:D :D :D
Forum: Australia
Aug 2nd 2006, 6:20 pm
Replies: 123
Views: 10,003
Posted By robs12

Re: 18 months in Aus...

No worries ....it's often just as hard to be an arrogant git...at least that's what I try to convince myself :p
Forum: Australia
Aug 2nd 2006, 6:11 pm
Replies: 123
Views: 10,003
Posted By robs12

Re: 18 months in Aus...

Errr....

'As above' meaning congrats on a good post as all those posts above..

I'm not sure why he expects to get banned? <<I posted this under an assumed name, fully expect to get banned.>>
...
Forum: Australia
Aug 2nd 2006, 5:57 pm
Replies: 123
Views: 10,003
Posted By robs12

Re: 18 months in Aus...

As above - except I'm not sure why you expect to get banned :)

I suspect that there are many more of us 'wearing ties' than apparent from the posts here (or elsewhere).
Forum: Australia
Aug 2nd 2006, 5:44 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,481
Posted By robs12

Re: Rising House Prices in Perth

We are also selling up in (sunny!) Sussex & moving out to Perth in September (& how we are looking forward to that!!). Everyone has a different view, but we'll be investing the money for the next few...
Forum: Australia
Jul 31st 2006, 5:49 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 775
Posted By robs12

Re: Engineering - transferable experience

Not sure if I'm allowed to link to another site, but if you take a look at the aussiemove forums, a chap by the name of paulaine posted on 23 July
<<I have been a great fan of Aussiemove and it has...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 23rd 2006, 7:45 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 1,853
Posted By robs12

Re: Help and Tips needed on doing a Boot Fair!! Pleeeeezeee!!

You came back with only 2 boxes full???!!! I must be doing something wrong....
Glad you enjoyed it!
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2006, 9:34 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,100
Posted By robs12

Re: Which Airline?

If you stop in KL on the way, they will give you a free return flight to somewhere else in Malaysia if you stay at one of the hotels in their brochure. And the hotels are pretty cheap. We're going to...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 19th 2006, 9:27 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 1,853
Posted By robs12

Re: Help and Tips needed on doing a Boot Fair!! Pleeeeezeee!!

Go with the attitude that you have nothing to lose - you are there to get rid of your junk, not make a fortune.
Have a giggle - bartering & haggling & chatting with strangers - if you know you won't...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2006, 9:04 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,100
Posted By robs12

Re: Which Airline?

We flew Qantas in Feb & it was a nightmare. The abridged version involved a 5 hour wait on the tarmac at Heathrow with no food, no air con & no TV due to a 'lost' bag & some problem with power. Then...
Forum: Australia
Jul 17th 2006, 6:57 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 23,212
Posted By robs12

Re: QROPS Pensions

This all sounds interesting.... I am about to move out to Perth, running a UK SIPP at the moment, & loathe to lose half of it or hand it over to someone else to manage (read 'skim from'). Would very...
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