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Forum: The Barbie
Mar 9th 2009, 12:49 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 8,925
Posted By dj nee

Chemical for cleaning concrete roof tiles?

Hi all...wondering if anyone can help?

I'm going to have a go at restoring our roof as i'm a 'neil of all trades'!! haha
I'm re pointing where necessary and now have to get rid of the moss etc...
Forum: Australia
Jan 8th 2008, 9:21 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 2,425
Posted By dj nee

Re: personalised number plates

Or even more annoying, using black number plate screws and 'cleverly' placing it to make a new letter..
Sad, sad, sad!!!
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 8th 2008, 10:43 am
Replies: 63
Views: 3,650
Posted By dj nee

Re: Packing your own boxes

Best of luck to everyone :D
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 8th 2008, 2:44 am
Replies: 63
Views: 3,650
Posted By dj nee

Re: Packing your own boxes

The boxes were just basic things like you'd get in No Frills or whatever in the UK....nothing fancy!

To make sure they were secure i drilled a couple of small holes each side where the lid meets...
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 8th 2008, 2:36 am
Replies: 63
Views: 3,650
Posted By dj nee

Re: Packing your own boxes

We packed our own..

Definately do an inventory!

We also put numbered stickers on each of the boxes corresponding to the inventory for easy reference..

Also worth doing is adding an address...
Forum: Australia
Jan 8th 2008, 2:20 am
Replies: 8
Views: 814
Posted By dj nee

Re: Kids and snakes

Yeah its a difficult one for sure.

Especially after telling the kids whilst back in the UK that "it's fine....it's only a spider....don't worry!"

Now we're having to go back on our word!...
Forum: Australia
Jan 8th 2008, 2:12 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,425
Posted By dj nee

Re: personalised number plates

Is it S4R4H ? :huh::lol:

Seriously though, i wouldn't bother....personal plates are well cheap here. So cheap that when someone's got one nobody really looks at it anyway as everyone seems to...
Forum: Australia
Dec 20th 2007, 9:51 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,131
Posted By dj nee

Re: My container's arrived, why the delay?

Our stuff arrived on 14th too, and we have also been quoted 10 - 20 days....which is very annoying as Pickfords told us we would have our stuff before Xmas (was collected in the UK Sept 19th)
...
Forum: Australia
Dec 3rd 2007, 8:58 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,201
Posted By dj nee

Re: Mazda owners!

Blimey...thats crazyness :blink::confused:
Forum: Australia
Dec 2nd 2007, 10:13 am
Replies: 27
Views: 2,433
Posted By dj nee

Re: feeling so guilty

I had to leave my 66 yr old Mum on her own too, so i know how you feel. To make it even worse she fell off a ladder and broke her foot and is on a zimmer frame! (it happened in March but seems to be...
Forum: Australia
Dec 2nd 2007, 12:18 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,201
Posted By dj nee

Re: Mazda owners!

Thats a Ford fault too though. I had 2 Fords in the UK that had that problem. (try to put it into reverse...wont go...depress the clutch slightly, then it goes in ok)
My wife's mum has a Ford over...
Forum: Australia
Dec 1st 2007, 12:38 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,201
Posted By dj nee

Re: Mazda owners!

We just bought a new Mazda 3 Maxx Sport and we absolutely love the thing...

Only thing i can pick at is the air con doesn't seem as 'icy cold' as the Toyota Corola we hired beforehand, but it's...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 29th 2007, 11:54 am
Replies: 59
Views: 3,115
Posted By dj nee

Re: Why do i feel like this

Its hard to give a decent comment to this as we have only just arrived....but i feel the image you have of the UK in your head is probably really filtered and rose tinted compared to the reality of...
Forum: Australia
Nov 29th 2007, 10:53 am
Replies: 8
Views: 942
Posted By dj nee

Re: New in VIC

Hi guys!
Hope all goes well with the sale of the house. I busted my gut on our place to make sure it would sell quick..repainted everything. Each viewing we had i spent the whole day making sure it...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 27th 2007, 9:10 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 14,890
Posted By dj nee

Re: WHY ARE WE LEAVING THE UK?

can someone tell me what a frangipani is? Never heard of it!
Forum: Australia
Nov 27th 2007, 8:43 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 2,768
Posted By dj nee

Re: Any niggles?

Many thanks for the replies...deffo some useful tips in there that i will follow up :)

And yeah, people crossing on a green when you are turning left is a bit odd...and i had to ask the question...
Forum: Australia
Nov 27th 2007, 9:46 am
Replies: 30
Views: 2,768
Posted By dj nee

Re: Any niggles?

:)
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 27th 2007, 8:31 am
Replies: 239
Views: 14,890
Posted By dj nee

Re: WHY ARE WE LEAVING THE UK?

I think you covered most of it there!
Forum: Australia
Nov 27th 2007, 8:28 am
Replies: 13
Views: 883
Posted By dj nee

Re: Crown or Pickfords?

We used Pickfords and i have to agree that they are very good.

We packed all of the stuff ourselves, so they just came and loaded it up on the lorry. From memory we paid £2500, and that was with...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 27th 2007, 1:47 am
Replies: 30
Views: 2,059
Posted By dj nee

Re: How do i make the correct decision move to australia or not

In our case the decision was really easy.

We were struggling like mad in the UK...had been for years, so it was a good way out for us.

We will never live like kings here, but it seems much...
Forum: Australia
Nov 27th 2007, 12:51 am
Replies: 8
Views: 942
Posted By dj nee

Re: New in VIC

Hi James! My mum listened to Radio Cornwall loads :)

I will email asap.....will be happy to let you and your listeners know why we left Cornwall.

Mainly down to huge house prices and low...
Forum: Australia
Nov 27th 2007, 12:47 am
Replies: 30
Views: 2,768
Posted By dj nee

Re: Any niggles?

Cheers for the replies everyone :)

To Timber Floor Au, i was used to paying £9.99 - £12.99 for a 24 pack of Carlsberg from my local Asda in the UK. And they were the big cans (550ml??)
At the...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 26th 2007, 11:07 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 17,479
Posted By dj nee

Re: what a crap place Perth is.

Sounds like heaven to me....
Forum: Australia
Nov 26th 2007, 11:04 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 2,768
Posted By dj nee

Re: Any niggles?

I had a close call where i didn't check the left hand mirror enough and went from middle lane to left lane and nearly went into someone. Thinking about it though, in the UK i didn't really use the...
Forum: Australia
Nov 26th 2007, 10:30 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 2,768
Posted By dj nee

Any niggles?

Please look at this post light-heartedly! It's amazing here, so the last thing i want to do is sound like a whinging pommie!! It's just there's a few things that im finding funny / weird / bizarre...
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