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Forum: Australia
Jul 18th 2008, 5:28 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 943
Posted By Spikey

Re: melbourne primary school question

Hi, I think it's pretty unlikely that a state school would let her start. My daughter was 5 on 2nd April and is in Prep this year, she is one of the youngest and quite a few of her classmates were 6...
Forum: Australia
May 11th 2008, 10:10 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 10,420
Posted By Spikey

Re: Dentists in Australia

I'm getting root canal work done and a crown (eventually) on a tooth that was a problem back in the UK, I chose then to have it heavily filled rather than crowned - and the filling broke the day we...
Forum: Australia
Nov 30th 2007, 12:55 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,037
Posted By Spikey

Re: Transferring small amounts of money from Oz to UK via the internet

PMSL - I spoke to the same young kid I think! Quite insistent that 'it will work' when I was trying it there and then on the laptop and it most definitely wasn't working.

Someone else suggested...
Forum: Australia
Nov 30th 2007, 9:17 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,037
Posted By Spikey

Re: Transferring small amounts of money from Oz to UK via the internet

Thank you! I'll check them out and mention BE.
Forum: Australia
Nov 30th 2007, 8:33 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,037
Posted By Spikey

Transferring small amounts of money from Oz to UK via the internet

Has anyone managed to do this? I've been trying to transfer about $400 from my Westpac account to my Abbey account in the UK and having a nightmare as it just won't recognise the bank/branch...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2007, 5:47 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,643
Posted By Spikey

Re: Drugs in Melbourne

You're obviously hanging about in the wrong areas then :lol:
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2007, 4:36 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,643
Posted By Spikey

Re: Drugs in Melbourne

I work in the drug and alcohol field here in Melbourne, and used to in London a few years ago. I don't think it's any worse here - although heroin seems much more popular than in London (cocaine is...
Forum: Australia
Sep 5th 2007, 2:44 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 5,405
Posted By Spikey

Re: Pap Smear

Me neither, I was told that it was very unlikely to return as treatment is 99% successful but obviously they want to follow up.
Forum: Australia
Sep 4th 2007, 6:28 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 5,405
Posted By Spikey

Re: Pap Smear

Yes, me too - the being checked annually for 10 years thing - but I still remember reading that it's actually quite unlikely to come back after treatment - but it's reassuring to be checked I think...
Forum: Australia
Sep 4th 2007, 6:06 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 5,405
Posted By Spikey

Re: Pap Smear

Oh, you've reminded me I need to get one done. I had an abnormal one about 5 years ago and treatment - I hadn't realised it was as bad as it was until we had our visa medicals and I got my medical...
Forum: Australia
Jul 5th 2007, 3:08 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 10,221
Posted By Spikey

Re: moving to melbourne

I think that's manageable in Melbourne. It would depend how close you want to live to the CBD. $75k is a higher than average salary here.

We came over with a lot less than 100K gbp, my oh is in a...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 5th 2007, 12:28 am
Replies: 373
Views: 17,757
Posted By Spikey

Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)

Maybe, they don't stay on orange very long at all though do they - and he was only 0.9 seconds late - hardly any time at all. We'll pay up like I said but it does seem harsh. Making excuses for him...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 5th 2007, 12:16 am
Replies: 373
Views: 17,757
Posted By Spikey

Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)

Thought it was something like that, he thought the camera had got him but didn't think fine would be this excessive! As he said, if he'd braked sharply for the red light he would have ended up being...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 5th 2007, 12:08 am
Replies: 373
Views: 17,757
Posted By Spikey

Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)

My OH just received a notice tonight - $215 and 3 points for going through a red light - 0.9 seconds too late it seems.

He (we) know it was wrong and will pay up but that amount and number of...
Forum: Australia
Mar 21st 2007, 1:43 pm
Replies: 1,069
Views: 185,094
Posted By Spikey

Re: The Melbourne thread

Those areas are nice but housing is so much more expensive there! My OH has a long commute but we've chosen to live in Rowville which many consider too far out because you get so much more house for...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 16th 2007, 9:38 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,243
Posted By Spikey

Re: Hong Kong anyone???

We booked a family room at one of the metropark hotels in Kowloon. It was ok - but only 3 single beds and there are 4 of us (children aged 6 & 3) so quite a lot of bed hopping for the 3 nights we...
Forum: Australia
Mar 15th 2007, 5:05 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,952
Posted By Spikey

Re: Your opinion on these areas to live please

There's been a settlement in Rowville for at least 100 years, I think it is quite well established and has good facilities. Parts of Narre Warren are fine too, not hoon land at all.

Although I can...
Forum: Australia
Mar 15th 2007, 12:52 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,952
Posted By Spikey

Re: Your opinion on these areas to live please

That definitely sounds like Rowville primary, they're just revamping the playground and a new pirate ship has gone up to replace the old one. My son is nearly 7, there isn't an Edmond in his class...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2007, 1:47 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,952
Posted By Spikey

Re: Your opinion on these areas to live please

Hello - definitely up for a coffee - which school are your girls at here? Will pm you...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2007, 1:44 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,101
Posted By Spikey

Re: Enrolling Kids into Aus Schools from UK

The school year starts on the last day of January.

Term 1 Jan - end March
Easter holiday
Term 2 Mid April - end June
1st 2 weeks July - holiday
Term 3 Mid July - 21st September
2 week...
Forum: Australia
Mar 13th 2007, 8:16 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,952
Posted By Spikey

Re: Your opinion on these areas to live please

Hi, we're in Rowville and I really like it here. We headed here as my SIL lives here. The only downside is that there is no station, although I saw a poster in the library for a proposal for one in...
Forum: Australia
Mar 13th 2007, 5:55 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,101
Posted By Spikey

Re: Enrolling Kids into Aus Schools from UK

My son started school the week after we arrived here, I enrolled him when we arrived.

I guess it depends whether you're looking at state school or private, but if you live in the catchment area...
Forum: Australia
Mar 13th 2007, 5:51 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 3,105
Posted By Spikey

Re: Anyone emigrated to Oz without ever visted there?

We had never been to Oz before coming to Melbourne last November. No regrets about not doing a reccie - I don't think it would have helped at all as we would have been in a holiday frame of mind...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 19th 2007, 9:48 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 959
Posted By Spikey

Re: medicals - high blood pressure...

I have what they call labile blood pressure i.e it can be all over the place. You don't necessarily have to be on meds for life - I was on them for 2 months after the birth of my son, and for 6...
Forum: Australia
Feb 19th 2007, 12:27 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 978
Posted By Spikey

Re: Melbourne School Fees

Dandenong itself isn't great but plenty of nice areas in commutable distance from there - we rent in Rowville which is about 10-15 minutes drive away from there. The school fees for my 6 year old...
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