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jo and scott

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  1. thanks for your replies :-) I think it would be great if mil went out, hired a car, but she comes on her own, so I think it would feel odd, so its just me and her all day every day, even when ive met up with friends, she came along, which was fine. but I felt suffocated after a while. we all took my mil to the airport, we were a little bit sad, for about 5 minutes ! I balled my eyes out all the way home to secret harbour when I dropped my mum at the airport tho :-( im trying to think of ways to cope when she comes out again, I don't want it to be stressful, but I am already feeling anxious :-/
  2. i remember feeling totally excited, not nervous, just couldn't wait to get here ! woohoo !
  3. Good luck pegg! I loved having my mum here. Maybe it's because it was just for 2 weeks so we did have a great time! I would just rather mil come in Feb. We lived with her for a long time whilst saving up for the visa so I feel awful. She's very demanding and I just can't cope with her and the girls at the same time.
  4. Thankyou :-) both our mums have been out to visit, my mum came at Easter for 2 weeks, she still works full time. It was great but she has decided on 3 weeks next time. We can't wait, our girls are excited too!! My mil arrived in January and stayed for 6 weeks, she's retired. I found this quite difficult as the girls wanted to go to the park / meet their friends, we'd only been here 11 weeks! She wanted to do different things to the girls. She won't drive or go out by herself. I've said to her it would be really lovely for her to visit for 3 weeks in February, she replied to Scott, if it's not convenient for me to stay, then I'll stay in a hotel. Basically I'm not bothered when is okay for you, I'll do what I like! I'd like to go camping with friends in January as it's the school holidays. She would not want to go camping. I can't cope with her whilst the girls are off school. Like you say, visitors are on holiday and we're not. Scott spoke to her this week and asked her when she's coming out and she said just after Christmas When it's just mil and myself, we have an ok time but she's not the easiest person to be around.
  5. Hi pp how do you cope with families visiting for long periods of time?
  6. The owner of our holiday let picked us up for a small fee.
  7. I really like Spill the Beans café in Rockingham.
  8. IKNOWC but I cant believe we have been here for 9 1/2 months !! loving it too :-))
  9. I went to aldi in rockingham today, I didn't like it, I prefer coles and woolies. I bought a few bits tho. I was checking the prices and they were not cheaper.
  10. we live in secret harbour, our girls go to comet bay and love it !! years 5 and 6. we looked around comet bay college too, which we were really pleased with, a few years back it wasn't that good but its good now. there are certain areas of secret harbour that are better than others, even the real estate told us which areas to avoid which was good.
  11. we are going to use anglo pacific and my understanding is that you list what is in each box ie box 1 - books / dvds box 2 - cds / clothes this is what we are doing. you don't have to list each individual item. hope this helps :-)
  12. thinking about it now, I wish we had a 2 hour stopover, I feel like its a waste sleeping in that time, I could spend that time sleeping on the next flight, scott thinks we will be buzzing at Singapore and wide awake lol !!!
  13. oh no :-/ hopefully I will sleep on the flight. I cant even imagine what the flight is going to be like !! xx
  14. thanks ! ive checked out the airline and there is lots to do, I just hope we are not too tired to enjoy it all :-/
  15. hi pp, we have an 11 hour layover time at Singapore airport, what is there to do for us and our 2 girls aged 9 and 11 ? so far ive found out about the swimming pool, butterfly garden, the 2 hour bus tour, by the time we have done all that and had some food I don't know if there would be enough time for anything else, I do feel the need to go to raffles for a Singapore sling tho ;-) thanks !
  16. we have 30 kilos with Singapore airlines, I queried it with them that we should have 40 kilos as we are emigrating but they said no, it used to be 20 but it was upped to 30. I also queried laurens medical items that she needs, no extra allowance for that either !
  17. oh wow ! lauren will love that, shes enjoying being off at the mo and its lovely having her home, she is doing some school work books from WH Smith, and she loves them ! think I may go back and get some for lucy too if they are going to be off for that long. I would definitely love to meet up ! we are staying at penguin island view retreat which I don't think is too far from you :-) I cant wait to fly out now, ive organised a couple of leaving do's, just need to finish the packing and sort out the shipping. xxx
  18. hi louise, im not sure where we are going at the mo, ive never been so we will have a good look round before deciding, I do have friends in baldivis tho :-) im unsure of senior schools, need to research more :-/ do you have children ?
  19. oh no :-/ im glad we are staying the night before in the hotel, I do not fancy a mad rush in the morning, we are getting picked at at 1pm so my mum and a few other family members can see us off from home :-) we are flying with Singapore airlines, so much to do at the airport, swimming then showers, food, 2 hour Singapore bus tour, butterfly park, and maybe a Singapore sling in raffles ;-) so excited now :-))
  20. im packing ready for our move in 5 weeks !! currently sorting the kids toys and its painful. hope everyone is well :-))
  21. thanks :-) I cant believe we are nearly on our way ! ive just confirmed the holiday let booking for 4 weeks and booked the premier inn for the night before we fly. its all coming together :-))
  22. thankyou ! we started this process in june 2013, we had to save each bit of money as we didn't have the money in the bank. our 189 visa was granted on 11th may 2015. we gave ourselves 2 years to do this, and wanted to be in perth before our daughter lauren started senior school, she was supposed to start on the 7th sept so we are just over our timescale. lauren hasn't started senior school. Our visa cost £8627.00.
  23. we have booked our flights for Monday 26th October !!! feeling very emotional about it all, its been a long time coming,
  24. thankyou, ive found a lovely 3 bed with a pool in Guildford :-) going to book it tonight !!!! very excited now !!!!
  25. hi pp, we are hoping to book our flights for Monday 26th October and are looking for a holiday let for 3 weeks, anywhere in perth will do ! does anyone know of a holiday let available please ? we are also wondering whether to book a stopover in Singapore for 1 or 2 nights. very excited now, 2 years ago seemed such a long time ago and now its actually happening !!!!!
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