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Has anyone tried that Indian Food restuarant on Mandurah Road, out near Secret Harbour, called Klush House?? I was`nt much impressed with Chutney Mary`s last year, there is one in Subiaco, across the road from the Subiaco Hotel, and The Regent Theatre! We had a mild Korma, rice, and crackers. Cost $28 for a tiny little dish of Korma, for 2, the rice was half cooked, (meaning still crunchy) we paid for bottled water, and it never came. Went to the pub afterwards to cool down.....a Hahn Ice went further. But then I`m not really an Indian food lover, but I do like a home cooked sweet curry, with bananas and sultanas spiced with Mango chutney!

suggest this be moved to the gardening thread, but here goes. Because of the sandy soil near the beach and in some suburbs, you have to add a lot of *fodder* to help sustain the soil and its micro-organisms, to get good results, both for floral and edible crops. So, shredded newspaper, old carpet, green lucerne hay, leaves from trees, ( though not so much the eucalyptus and native trees as they take a long time to break down) fruit and deciduous trees(those that loose their leaves during the winter) Dynamic Lifter, ( a granulated mix of chook manure and sawdust commercially made) blood & bone, horse, cow, goat, even pidgeon poop will work, and break down. Most of the sandy soils will need a dose of SoilWetter, which is a commercial application of soapy residue (by-product of oil refining)which will , once applied, and well watered in (I do mine with a watering can about every 8 months) will help the water stay at the root level of your plants. A check can be done such as, water a small patch for 10 minutes, turn hose off, check the spot you watered, if its wet down to 6 inches, doesnt need soil wetter, if however its dry after about 2 inches, SW is needed. The soapy residue keep the soil wet, and helps your plants survive. If however you don`t wish to use the soil wetter, I suggest you only put your plants in pots in and around the garden. When purchasing potting mix and other manures for your gardens, look on the ingredients, some of the more expensive ones do have the soil wetter added. Another good buy at the same time, are Soluable Water Crystals. They are a granulated crystal, which when watered will swell up and sustain the plant for a longer time, watering your plants normally each couple of days, will keep the crystals swollen, and help your plants survive longer..

With all the things going on in this area, I am only just now getting around to checking everyone out! I presume some of you work, so when or if I organize a finger food, fun and games evening some time would you and yours be interested to join. I have a dart board, pool table, scrabble, backgammon,packs of cards (some of them unusual) mahjong,, trivail pursuit, even twist I think still. We cant have everyone just sitting staring at the walls. Your thoughts on this would be good> free to answer for your suggestions. I have a large house and have in the past had over 60 people in it at any one time, then of course there are the children/ teenagers to entertain.

Can you do any work for/with children with disabilities, or even teaching assistance, for children with numeracy and Literacy skills needing to be updated. There are many teachers, fully qualified in WA who have`nt got jobs, part time or otherwise. But the skills I mentioned above are something the education dept is trying to improve, since they started to do a National skills assessment test for primary and secondary students, this area was found to be ineffective. Maybe look for a positions that will help your score improve out here, whilst you are trying to get more hours to qualify in Britain!

Hello, for those of you who are planning to meet me & Jackboots at The Steel Tree cafe, @ Railway Terrace Rockingham Beach, on Tuesday 5th July, about 10ish! I have booked a table for 5 under the name PerthPoms... courtesy, to the cafe, in my book. Anyone who wishes to join us, men, women etc, welcome! I will be wearing a cowboy hat with a red boa, around the brim.

Hello, for those of you who are planning to meet me at & Jackbootsat The Steel Tree cafe, @ Railway Terrace Rockingham beach, on Tuesday 5th July, about 10ish! I have booked a table for 5 under the name PerthPoms... courtesy, to the cafe, in my book. Anyone who wishes to join us, men, women etc, welcome!

John Holland is a division of Leighton Holdings,part of a it is a Dutch Company Hocschief (something like that) has just been taken over by a Spanish Division, sort of a a league of nations. JH has fingers in lots of other buildings. Brookfield=Multiplex was one that did`nt get the contract, but parts of all these companies, are sub-contractors who it seems all work together. JH is also doing 5 other major works in other cities. Check them all out on LinkedIN...

3,582 women I presume have read this thread, congratulation, ladies... Thought for the day! what`s left of it. Friendship is as steadying a hand on the rudder of a boat, and as reliable as sunrise after night! Have a good weekend, enjoy the rain, hail and sunshine, thanks for the cold weather, you lot, I believe you brought it with you!

here is the rest of it.... To refine this approach, Canfield suggested entering the name of a specificcompany, just below the title box where you wrote 'human resources' or 'HR.'Ideally, a list will come up with little blue numbers next to the names at thetop of the list. If '2nd' appears next to a name, click on that name, and onthe right side of the screen you will see who among your connections links tothat person. I tried a couple of companies, like Financial Times and the WallStreet Journal, and met with no success, but perhaps if I had more connectionsthis would work for me. Canfield also suggested using the title 'recruiter' andthe company name. Next Canfield suggested a tactic to use if you're thinking of changing yourwhole career. In the title box, put your dream profession or dream title. Youcan gather all sorts of information this way. You can pore over the profiles ofpeople who have your dream job now and consider how they got there. If youshare a connection, then you have an excuse to send them a quick e-mail,preferably with your mutual connection's name in the subject line, and suggestyou go for coffee or have a phone chat. You can also use LinkedIn to follow what's happening at companies whereyou'd like to work. Go to the gray bar at the top of any LinkedIn page. Hoveryour cursor over the word 'More' at the center of it, and click on the word'Companies.' Once you enter your company of choice, you'll get all sorts of info,including a list of current and former employees and new hires to whom you mayhave connections. All of these connections present networking opportunities. Ifthere are a lot of new hires, that means the company is in expansion mode,Canfield points out. Information on this page can also provide fodder forquestions you might want to ask in an interview, should you get your foot inthe door. At the top of the page, under the search box, you can click on a link thatsays, 'Follow company.' That will feed you news about new hires, promotions anddepartures, which will appear directly on your LinkedIn home page. Finally, a piece of advice that didn't come from Canfield: Stay in touchwith your network. I spent July 4 weekend with a pair of successful thirtysomethingdesign and media professionals who told me how they make maximum use ofLinkedIn. One of them, Jennifer Gormley, a designer who's also the mother of a19-month-old, has a lucrative business doing freelance projects. When she'sready to take on new work, she runs through her list of LinkedIn contacts andsends out short personal notes, letting potential clients know she's open forbusiness. Her husband, Matthew Rechs, who left a high-level job at a digitalmarketing agency last year with a nice package, is getting ready to go back towork. He's currently juggling three or four serious job discussions. He foundall of them using the same strategy - running through his LinkedIn list andletting his connections know he's around. Source: smh.com.au

I have some information for anyone who wants to use the website LinkedIN..... its one where everyone who is looking to change jobs SHOULD be using, as so many Bigger companies, use it to check on peoples, qualifications etc. You will know what I mean, when you read HOW to use the website... It was written by a female researcher from SMH Sydney Morning Herald.... I read this report when it first came out and saved it, and haveshared it with quite a few people. I have no idea who the writer was, except Iguessed it was a woman who did outside work with SMH. LINKEDIN.. How to master the site to make the most of your job search, When I wrote a story about LinkedInback in April, I was struggling to grasp how the site could be useful to mepersonally, a baby boomer with a full-time job. Now I get it. LinkedIn gives menot only a place to display my work and credentials to colleagues but also akind of passive invitation to recruiters and potential employers who might wantto seek my services. I also understand that I've so far only scratched the surface of whatLinkedIn can do. People actively searching for jobs can make use of oceans ofdata that LinkedIn's 70 million users have created. For more advanced advice on how to use LinkedIn to find a job, I got back onthe phone with Krista Canfield, a spokeswoman at the Californian company. Sheoffered a number of suggestions. First, she showed me how to search geographically for contacts whowork in the human resources departments of companies. At the top left-handcorner of the screen, next to the search box, click on the word 'Advanced.'That takes you to an 'Advanced People Search.' On the right-hand side of thescreen, in the 'Title' box, type either 'HR' or 'human resources.' Below thetitle, there's a drop-down menu where you choose 'Current.' Your next move is to narrow that search by location, which you do on theleft-hand side of the screen. You might stick close to home, or, if you're opento relocating, cast the net wide. Just below location, you can choose anindustry to narrow down to. I admit that while Canfield was laying out this strategy I was skeptical.Would anyone really find a job through a cold connection to someone in H.R.?But that's the point of LinkedIn. You're looking for a link through someone youknow. I'm afraid I didn't come up with much when I tried this method, checkingoff 'newspapers,' 'online media' and 'writing and editing' as my industries. Itseems I'm not connected to any H.R. people at companies where I'd want to work.This exercise reconfirmed how important it is to keep adding to your list ofconnections. The more you connect, the exponentially greater the chance you'lllink to someone who can help you find a job.

Abc News tv! I still have an old radio, uses, AM, and FM . My Dad listens to 6IX,the grapevine, where people can ring in and give their opinions about all sorts of subject. not sure of its place in the digital era. Curtin radio, run from The Bentley grounds of Curtin university of technology etc, has some music, golden oldies (rock N Roll) but sometimes in the afternoons they have informative talks about anything and everything, even gardening I think. Triple JJJ is the abc`s younger generation music. I dont listen to the radio much, the one in my car, the fuse went, and as its so distracting I havent replaced it. Anyone gets in my car who wants music, has to do the singing themselves. I listen to 96fm and Mix. 94.5fm, as its the one I used to listen to in the country town I came from. 6PR used to be mainly racing and footy, (just remembered that one) if that helps...you could probably look on wikipedia, to find one that`s closer to what you want!

If the moderators of this site will allow me, I just realized I might have broken one of the rules of posting information about links to website etc. If someone wants me to share an article I have about how to use the site I mentioned above, they can message me about it. its quite a few paragraphs, but it will show you how to use the site to get your resume attention, as so many companies are using it to check people`s bona-fides and credit ratings with jobs and experience and things like that!

I want to bring your attention to an online website that will help you get that job you are looking for in Australia, or where ever in the world you are looking. There is quite a long article in Wednesday`s * West * its called Linkedin! It listed on the New York stock exchange in May, if I remember, but it has since been sold! I`m not sure who bought it but its used mainly to list yourself and link you and others to work, skills, and new ideas. LinkedIn brings together people online to cultivate and manage their careers and business networks. It has more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories, with 44 million in the United States I read about it on the Sydney Morning Herald a few years ago, but as I am not looking to change my job, and am not looking to be approached by other people , or asked to nominate my friends for new jobs, I resisted joining it. Lots of my colleagues and friends are on it. Your bank Manager, the guy who works at the local servo, probably even your postie is on it.. Its used by lots of Multi-nationals, to check out your work history, and lets face it, even in this day and age its not what you know , its who you know that gets you and your resume out there to the kind of positions you are really looking for, tearing your family apart , just to move to Australia, and have the same kind of job earning the same amount of salary, is not what you are looking for! by listing your self on LinkedIN, and adding extra to your resume all the time, not letting it stagnate with the same information, is not how to get yourself noticed here in this country! below is some of what I found on a share of information page on the WESt in May Shares of social network LinkedIn more than doubled in price after launching on the New York Stock Exchange in a tech stock feeding frenzy reminiscent of the infamous dot-com boom. It may call itself a social network, but its more a job search and resume network than those you are used to seeing like facebook and twitter!

A normal recipe for cooking in an oven, is useless to me, as my gas oven died about 2 years ago! I have an electric frypan, and use that infrequently. But I got one of those newer convection ovens for my birthday last month. It only has 4 recipes in the booklet, so does anyone have a favourite recipe for Xmas Recipes, I can practice on, to cook for my Xmas in July evening on the 23rd July??

Some students older and younger, can do such courses through the TAFE ( Technical and Further Education) colleges, have a look around Balcatta. I know there is an electrical college up there, so maybe there is other types like that! I know of some other people in their 40`s who when they have wanted to take on a job , they have had to go back to school and do their 11 and 12 years of education, so don`t be embarrassed about being 18 in a high school, chances are the older students will be in their 30s or 40s. it happens.

what sort of carpenter are you, a cabinet maker type or building? The company Diploma, are building multi story apartment building in various suburbs oF Perth, they are advertised in the real estate pages of the West and Sunday Times. But BGC, a company owned by a *Pom* Len Buckeridge, has told his mates that he wants his home building companies to be on every one`s mind when they are looking for carpenters, brickies, plumbers, etc for teams, and projects. BGC is also a hardware sales company. I know also that Bunnings (one of the largest hardware sales companies Australia wide, (WA owned) also have trademen`s centres attached to most of their larger stores, they are separate from the stores, usually in another street, away from the Hardware hub, maybe asking at those places, will give you an idea of what building companies are looking for carpenters. keep watching the news papers, for contracts being let on tenders.... read the tenders sections in the *West Australian* Saturdays and Wednesday`s, for which companies are tendering on such and such tender, to get an idea of how much work is coming up. Check out SkyscraperCity dot com, look for future building contracts in Perth, etc.... if this helps......

I`m not sure if this will help you, but, some times the reason you get the rental, is when you can say you can offer 3 months, or 6 months rent in advance... The power of money! When you can consider, that the houses available at the moment, can have up to 75 people looking and applying for them, and the owner, if they are buzy professional, or people who work away with limited time to check all the applicants out, will go with the one who can offer them the fastest and best return on their investment! It happens. And if you have the funds, when you consider every time you have to put in an application for a rental, the letting fee you have to give them, won`t be back in your pocket until after the place has been let.usually 10 days. So consider carefully, that the funds you are giving away are going on real places you NEED, as if you are applying for more than one you still have to live until its returned.... The company get interest on all your application fees, with 75 applicants its a real money earner for them. So I have been told (but don`t quote me) just gossip...If you do go to check a place out and there are numerous applicants before you, check with some of the applicants about the advertiser to make sure they are bone fide ! (the private rentals I mean) you have to be careful....

The red sky would maybe have something to do with the wind, full of dust, but it could also have just been the sun struggling to get through. Did the rainbow end at your place, the Shopping centre, which way was it facing. You can tell I was`nt around to see it this morning. What did you think of the thunder, down here in Rockingham it sounded more like artillery and heavy armory, the crashes on the ground were horrendous. We in WA usually do have spectacular storms at the start of our Winter. Last year in March we had the most dangerous storm I had ever seen in my lifetime (60 years) with wild hailstones that damaged cars, and windows, the only ones who gained out of it were the insurance companies, having so many more people insure the goods and chattels. keep calm, by the time you arrive it MIGHT have left. But we are just ending a drought. All you immigrants might just be bringing this state, the rain you have over there, it might be just trying to catch up with you!:jiggy:

We had for about 10 years, a guy showing us on channel 9 *Burke`s backyard,* Don Burke, if you see any of his gardening books grab them, they will help. Also Garden Guru`s on the same channel, and Gardening Australia, 6.30pm on Saturday`s on ABC, you will learn, as we still do, everything and anything about your garden! of course if you get the ISP iinet or Westnet (which incidently are the same company now, having joined-up a few years ago) and wish to watch any of the gardening shows, you can through Iview, on the website abc.net.au, you can watch other sports etc on that channel through your computer and it doesn`t effect your monthly download. I do all the time.. shshshs for the guys, they often have the Soccer (world cup) rugby, and other sporting programes from all around the world too you can tell them that when you are arguing about which ISP to get..(Internet Service Provider) gardening etc....

The company is Civmec Construction and Engineering, Nautical Drive, Henderson, 6166. In the Australian Marine Complex (AMC), the photo of it in the paper, has it sitting just on the edge of the coast, it juts into the sea.

Poinsettia`s can be the cherry red, there is a pink and a cream, or white as well. they grow in dry area`s and also down near the coast as well. There are double and single flowers too. Sometimes the colour of the flowers depend on the type of soil you have as well. The lemon tree flowering that`s right, they will grow and flower all year here, make sure you put some of your washing water on the soil around the circle of the growth, and get some males to urinate near them occasionally. The best citrus trees grow around the back of pubs in the bush, are usually placed near the laundryor the public toilets. People who are just putting in new lawns or gardens, because a lot of our houses are built on very sandy soil especially near the coast, should water in some Soilwetter, to help the sand retain the water and help the growth.. other wise when you water the lawn, it doe`snt retain the water dig down into the soil, and if its not wet within 4 inches, you need to do it!

Yes I will be there, by that time some of the rain will have washed the mud out of the gutters!