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HI folks! We are back in blighty and loving it! Kids are in school and doing well. House is in mid decorating phase. Container approaching red sea so won't be too long once it's gone through the cut. Got a fair bit of gardening to do, but I don't mind cutting green grass! Got 2 nice cars for us, sadly no vw yet, but will get one soon! Planning permission in file pending with council for extension to our house so exciting times ahead. Anyone contemplating the move back, just do it, it's no where near as bad as people like to make out, even in the Midlands! Right got to take kids to nanny's! Enjoy the sunshine, it's raining here for first time in 2 weeks since we got back. Real ale tonight , yum yum yum. Good luck! Tony, Cheryl, Kate and Jessica

Just going to sort uk house out first then see which way I want to roll.... Wished id come to oz when I was in air force, then the box would be ticked already! Cost me a fortune doing it at my age with kids in tow. South America looks fun too! Snowing at home ... Brilliant!

House gone, cars gone, container gone, ship about to dock in Fremantle, cases packed, holiday let vacated, friends house hijacked. Drive to airport at 1830! Not quite chilled out yet, just got to check luggage in then I can relax. Is there a poms in Canada site?

there are loads of companies that do it, new suburbs/estates are popping up everywhere all the time. I would probably spend in an area that was established with reputable schools, road and rail networks. But you would get more land for your money further from city you go. Depends on what you want , a large block with distant views of the city or a postage stamp with views of the ocean.

Im looking at hundreds of cardboard box's ! And its more entertaining than Ozzie TV My Boat is on its way to Freo from Melbourne! So it shall set sail from there the day after we arrive in UK. 4 more sleeps

yes Ive been back twice also.... looking forward to this new adventure as much as I did when I cam here

im sweating after, clearing garage and packing a few more tools away. Slowly selling stuff off, house getting emptier!

yes mate, 10pm take off, unless I can get it airborne any sooner

nice place VS! I can smell the fires in the country pub already! Cant wait to go back next weekend!

if it has no rego it isn't legal to drive on roads. So you trailer the vehicle away. You would then repair / restore it and take it to an approved garage to 'go over the pits' they would issue a cert saying its roadworthy ( or not) and then you take the cert to Dept of Transport and get it licensed ( rego'd). Yellow stickers are, as I believe, to be just like you say, needs to be repaired, approved by engineer. Be careful buying un rego'd cars, as here unlike UK, they wont have a list of things wrong with the vehicle ( in Uk you get failure notice). So seller could tell you it just needs brakes adjusting and when you take it over pits....could be rotten/ twisted / 3 cars in one......im sure you get the picture.

finally finished work! Few more things to sell then wait for removal people to come! Can't wait, life's to short to stay in one place!

You flying emirates on 5th vs?

Depending what you do within aerospace sector the major airlines are Qantas, virgin, alliance, skippers and Cobham. Also a company called andi carry out ndt testing and other aircraft component maintenance. Google will be your friend for contact info.

I'm going home.

My one way ticket booked too! Container arrives next Tuesday!!!! Very exciting

Big thing for us was we both had large families back in UK and when you got kids, and grandparents it gets hard. Skype doesn't help, it make it harder. Also the work situation, as already mentioned, isn't all that rosy at the moment. The grass isn't greener, its beige most of the year.

I've just read that yeah.

Facts are a more reliable guide.

Have to agree with VS on this. Work seems to be picking up very quickly in Uk and Europe at the moment. With the mining downturn that's been going on for over a year now its effects are slowly filtering down to other sectors. As much as people disliked a certain side of the UK, the willingness for Brits to jump on a plane and chase the sun and sangria, will always ensure that I have a job! Australia was never going to be my home, it was an adventure, which we took, didn't work out, oh well, on to the next opportunity. Its not the be all and end all of our life and as we didn't sell our soul to get here we can just slip back and get ready for the next adventure! Admittantly it gets more difficult as the kids get older, but we will deal with that as and when.

My container, 20Ft, fully packed and items disassembled/reassembled all materials/boxes cost us just shy of $10k we could of saved a few hundred $$$ by taking a slower boat but figured less time at my moms house would be better for everyone and worth every cent/penny. Insurance around 600 sterling We are selling quite a few things here as we don't have so many rooms in the house in UK. Obviously 3 cars to sell, 1 gone already ( thank you nice man from Freo ) I'm going to go self employed when back in Blighty and have people throwing themselves at me at the moment which is nice. Just Paid $550 for 2 weeks car hire in UK to see me through until I buy one. Yet to book one here in Perth for final few days. One saving grace about 457 visa is your sponsor pays for your flights, which is around $5k saved. Vacate clean from rental $500, carpet cleaner $180 gardener $50. Furnished accom for 3 nights $400. Kids are at school right up to day before we fly... so gives me and mrs some breathing space to sort stuff out. In Uk will have to reunite ourselves with taxman. ALso we have to try and get kids in local school which is going to be biggest headache, as we are over half way through school year and as it is the only 'outstanding' rated school in our area its allegedly over subscribed. Many nights of tears and heartache and headaches to come....living the dream baby

yeah I'd avoid mining and oil and gas for a while. All the big players in those fields are posting big looses at the moment. More redundancies recently, one guy got laid off and tried to hang himself in toilet of the plane ( the plane i'm employed to maintain) on way back. Sad times.

I'm building up packing boxes! trying to decide what stays in oz and what comes back to UK. Vacate clean booked for 2 weeks today, container would of been already gone 2 weeks today, hand in keys 2 weeks tomorrow!! Getting scarily close now.

its on the road to Denmark from Albany, English Bloke and his Mrs run the place. His Mrs's uncle was some major player in a famous swiss chocolate producer...that famous I forgot what the name of company was! Anyway tasted nice and they sold lots of other stuff like ALCOHOL and Chilli. was brilliant even the kids liked it.

the reception in some areas is very bad. We used to live near comet bay college and it was perfect, then we moved nearer comet bay primary school and we cant get many channels on freeview or Telstra box. We have to loop the aerial from box to wall socket in a particular way, and avoid it touching power cables or we don't get anything! Its frustrating as we are only probably 500 metres away from old house!

I believe it be per item...but unsure as we only had 1 item quarantined. It was an artificial Christmas tree which had real pine cones on it! they wanted $250 to spray it......or they would burn it for free you can buy a bloomin big Christmas tree for $250! Even in rip off Perth