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Forum: The Barbie
Feb 13th 2011, 10:08 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,449
Posted By GracieK

Re: Please Help!! Re;What do you miss!!

That's a good idea Pollyana - best get her to start her list now. Judging from what she showed me on Skype she got one bag of each type of sweet from Sainsburys confectionery aisle!!
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 13th 2011, 7:47 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,449
Posted By GracieK

Re: Please Help!! Re;What do you miss!!

My rellies are coming to visit from the UK soon and I was asked what we wanted to bring over!! Our family's list is...

- Galaxy Chocolate bars
- Smoky Bacon Wheat Crunchies
- Pickled Onion...
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 31st 2011, 2:22 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 26,043
Posted By GracieK

Re: Where to buy UGG boots in Sydney?

Hiya. My friend came out to visit in Sydney and was asked by a friend to get her some "UGG Australia" boots. It had to be that particular branded one and some bailey button 3/4 or weird design...
Forum: Australia
Nov 26th 2010, 5:15 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,111
Posted By GracieK

Re: Preschool costs in Sydney

Round my area (St George) the community preschools are around $35-50 a day. These preschools only do 9am-3pm and they seem to have waiting lists of around 18 months!! There are long day...
Forum: Australia
Nov 10th 2010, 10:16 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 648
Posted By GracieK

Re: Cheap Furniture in SYDNEY

You could try fantastic furniture but it depends on what your definition of good quality is :) We got rid of all our furniture in the UK and just went with one of their package deals. I've found...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 17th 2010, 3:43 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,014
Posted By GracieK

Re: Oyster Omelette - Yes or No

They have this traditional dish in Singapore called Or Luak (basically an oyster omelette). I don't eat shellfish but my Dad spent many a happy hour foraging oysters to make it.
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 12th 2010, 12:02 am
Replies: 178
Views: 17,823
Posted By GracieK

Re: What did you buy at Aldi this week?

I went looking for the office chair this week (all gone in one day boo). But I did notice that the Aldi in Hurstville Westfield yesterday still had loads and loads of the English confectionery (the...
Forum: Australia
May 3rd 2010, 3:34 pm
Replies: 43
Views: 32,716
Posted By GracieK

Re: good smelling washing powder

I started out with Omo Sensitive (but found the powder seemed to get clumped up in the drawer for some reason). I use Purity Sensitive liquid and a bit of napisan in each wash. I really notice the...
Forum: Australia
May 3rd 2010, 3:13 pm
Replies: 95
Views: 10,412
Posted By GracieK

Re: AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY PRICES

It all depends on where you buy your house in Australia, no? We also moved from the East Midlands (good old Loughborough) where our little 3 bed semi was only 120k. Moving to Sydney was like moving...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 29th 2010, 11:21 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 798
Posted By GracieK

Re: Baby Visa

If I recall, the doctor sent the medicals straight down to Australia House in London (not all the way to Oz).
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 29th 2010, 1:32 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 798
Posted By GracieK

Re: Baby Visa

We chose to validate our PR visas and get the baby visa after our littlun was born. Here's our timeline (these were in 2008 though).

Born - 25/07
Passport forms sent off - 12/08
Received baby...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 13th 2010, 8:54 am
Replies: 4
Views: 3,553
Posted By GracieK

Re: Aussie equivalent of UK Land Registry

I find this site very useful for finding out how much houses sold for and when...

http://www.onthehouse.com.au/
Forum: Australia
Feb 28th 2010, 10:27 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 620
Posted By GracieK

Re: What's Stanmore (Sydney) like?

My hubby works in Stanmore. He says there is an IGA (small supermarket, co-op style), a few hairdressers, a few bottlos, a railway station, and a couple of schools...

... oh yes he also told me...
Forum: Australia
Feb 12th 2010, 10:27 am
Replies: 20
Views: 3,763
Posted By GracieK

Re: Having a baby in NSW - Any advice on pre/post maternity services?

Firstly congrats! I've not experienced antenatal in NSW but I thought this thread looked a bit sad all by itself!! Have been looking into things and this is quite useful...
...
Forum: Australia
Dec 6th 2009, 12:05 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 607
Posted By GracieK

Re: JAL - how are they with toddlers?

I flew with JAL a few years ago so I'm not sure if they've upgraded their planes since but there was very little in the form of entertainment on the Japan/Oz legs. They classed UK to Japan as long...
Forum: Australia
Nov 2nd 2009, 1:09 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 14,190
Posted By GracieK

Re: Nappy Rash

My daughter had an awful nappy rash a couple of months ago, like you I was using Sudocrem but it just wouldn't go away. Eventually took her to the GP and she said to ask the chemist for "Hydrozole"....
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 10th 2009, 12:08 am
Replies: 3
Views: 4,488
Posted By GracieK

Re: Closest formula milk in Australia to Aptimal Forward 1+

We brought 2 boxes of Aptamil with us when we moved and tried a few when we got here. Almost all the options for baby formula here have a normal version and a +/gold/added prebiotics type option...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 19th 2009, 12:02 pm
Replies: 51
Views: 3,197
Posted By GracieK

Re: Your $ Day out in Sydney

The MCA and Art Gallery NSW are free (except for certain exhibits).

Tumbalong Park in Darling Harbour is good fun for the kids as it has a massive playground. Also the Maritime Museum there is...
Forum: Australia
Aug 16th 2009, 11:01 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,718
Posted By GracieK

Re: first shipping quote in, expensive?

We had 1/2 a 20ft container with Doree Bonner in December and it cost just shy of £1700 (full packing). We had 5 different companies round to do a quote and they ranged from £1600 - £3200 (all...
Forum: Australia
Aug 8th 2009, 2:35 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 829
Posted By GracieK

Re: SHIH TZU DOG

We brought our Shih Tzu cross Bichon out in December. It cost about £1100 for the flight, crate and handling with Animal Airlines. We filled in the forms ourselves and dropped her off at Heathrow....
Forum: Australia
Jul 30th 2009, 12:57 am
Replies: 9
Views: 959
Posted By GracieK

Re: Immunisations

As the others have said you need to ask your doctor to take down the details of the immunisations they have had from the red book and the doctor gets in contact with the Immunisation Register to...
Forum: Australia
Jul 8th 2009, 8:25 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 8,117
Posted By GracieK

Re: Medicare - Proofs Required

I feel for you... in fact we had exactly the same problem. We hadn't registered for Medicare when we validated either. Even though it was 6 months ago for us, it still makes me feel stressed...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 24th 2009, 3:08 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,206
Posted By GracieK

Re: Moving to Perth with a newborn

We moved to Sydney in Dec 08 with our 4-5 month old baby. We found that with family here it made it so much easier as we had somewhere to stay straight away and also someone we knew to babysit when...
Forum: Australia
Jun 1st 2009, 6:33 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,693
Posted By GracieK

Re: Asthma inhaler - hand luggage- OK??

I've always had mine in my hand luggage and not had any problems going to S'pore or Oz. The only time I got stopped was in Bahrain when they thought they were bullets (I used to have a Diskhaler...
Forum: Australia
May 18th 2009, 9:20 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,751
Posted By GracieK

Re: Nappies

Have a look on the bubhub forum. Plenty of recommendations for various cloth nappy types. I used Kushies on my daughter (brought over with us from the UK though).
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