Page 2 | STATS THREAD FOR THOSE IN OR MOVING TO AUSTRALIA

eidsvold · 06/09/2006 03:26

what about me?!?! the token aussie for a while on mumsnet until you lot decided to come and join me back here

eidsvold - proper aussie

brisbane
dd1 - 4yo
dd2 - almost 2
bump - due end of mar 2007

The rest of us are fine drivers - just those weeny westerners who have no sense of the road

don't mind passing road trains unless they are full of cattle - and then hate having to clean a windscreen of runny uriny manure - gotta love the country

flannelettepyjamas · 06/09/2006 06:02

flannelettepyjamas (formerly yummimummy)

Brisbane

4 years

DH (Aussie)
DD 15 months
Bump due end March (same day as Eidsvold - spooky)

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MrsBigD · 06/09/2006 06:36

eidsvoid didnt know about you but will duly add you and Flannellettepjs once I'm in the office

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Bouj · 06/09/2006 06:44

Me too!

Brisbane, ds1 3.5yrs, ds2 17weeks. I'm aus, dh english. been back 2 years now. excuse typing, feeding ds2!

suzywong · 06/09/2006 06:57

it is true, Perth has the worst drivers on record according to the RAC.

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MrsBigD · 06/09/2006 11:51

a little update

ADELAIDE

Sandcastles (previously melissasmummy)
10 weeks
DD 3
dh emigrated here when he was 4, came to uk for holiday, met me, spent 17 yrs there with me, now in Oz as he was just missing family too much! Love it here (even tho I have no really friends yet sob)

BRISBANE bouj
I'm aus, dh english. been back 2 years now
kids: ds1 3.5yrs, ds2 17weeks.

eidsvold - proper aussie
KIDS: dd1 - 4yo , dd2 - almost 2, bump - due end of mar 2007

flannelettepyjamas (formerly yummimummy)
4 years
DH (Aussie), DD 15 months. Bump due end March (same day as Eidsvold - spooky)

PERTH

HumpyDumpy
Been here 8 months
Got a DD 2years old Aussie DH.
I'm abit of an erratic poster, as don't always have access to a computer as DH takes laptop to work.

Suzywong
2 years
boys 5 and 3
Australian dh
bloody love it but miss Boots and Waitrose

SYDNEY Arfishymeau
already here - Eastern Suburbs Sydney
kids: 1 permanent DD of 3.8, 2 x DSS of 20 & 15 (hols as at Uni/Secondary school in UK. Hoping they'll transfer)

MrsBigD
looking at moving there April/May 2008, no idea which area yet but looking like North Shore somewhere
kids: dd currently nearly 5, ds 2

Robinpud
coming to Sydney for 1 year ( but who knows?!) exchange arriving on 22.01.07
dh ,dd aged 9, dd aged 5

Sunnydelight
Moving to Sydney next April, holidaying there first for three weeks in November (shame it wasn't January, I could have joined the meet up!). I'm pretty convinced by people on here to go North Shore, but don't know quite where yet.
Kids: DS1 13, DS2 7 and DD 3.
It would be great to know people in Sydney - particularly others with "widely spaced" families!

UK

DERBY

Astrophe
Australian, living in Derby for 3 years (returning to Aust 2009??)
Lived on the north shore, so thats my specialty (ask me anything )
Kids: DD 2.3, DS 6 months

GLASGOW

Katyjo
previously Port Melbourne
We haven't quite decided yet.
We were living in Melbourne but came back last september, got married in december, had ds in march (we have been together for 12 years but everything happened at once!)

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Original poster

MrsBigD · 06/09/2006 15:27

anybody else wants to be added ?

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PeppaPigsMum · 10/09/2006 09:08

hi - back from my holidays in Noosa and catching up with the threads...great list MrsBigD!

PeppaPigsMum
Northern Beaches, Sydney since May (previously in Melbourne for 7 months)
1 dd - 2.5 yrs
on a long-term business visa - dp working, i'm a SAHM at the moment. still deciding whether we'd like to stay or not (agree its a fantastic lifestyle, but miss everyone in the UK)...

looking forward to a meet-up - will reply on relevant thread when i've got a sec!

eidsvold · 10/09/2006 09:11

what did you think of Noosa??

PeppaPigsMum · 10/09/2006 11:39

lovely, but expensive accommodation close to town. had a really relaxing time. and its very warm compared to Sydney at the moment, particularly the evenings - DD didn't wear shoes the whole week. i can see why people settle on the Queensland coast - amazing beaches, great climate.

have the holiday blues now - its rained non-stop since we touched down in Sydney yesterday and dp is back to work tomorrow .

tangox3 · 10/09/2006 22:01

tangox3
Moved to Melbourne (Camberwell) mid-August
ds 2, bump due 4th Nov
Come from NZ but have lived overseas since 2000. Very glad to be nearer the grandparents!

tribeoffive · 11/09/2006 09:57

Sydney
Moving endDec06/Jan07
Suburb not decided yet
DH,dd13,ds4,dd3,dd1 and hopefully ds15 summer07
AND the cat

sunnydelight · 11/09/2006 10:16

The penny dropped with DS2 last night re. our cat and the predictable hysterics followed so I have had to promise to look into bringing him. BUGGER, BUGGER, BUGGER!!!

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MrsBigD · 11/09/2006 12:40

A little update and sympathies for cat induced hysterics. Thankfully we have hamsters and are hoping they will die of old age before we move... and dd is really looking forward to getting 2 cats once we've moved to AUS

ADELAIDE

Sandcastles (previously melissasmummy)
10 weeks
DD 3
dh emigrated here when he was 4, came to uk for holiday, met me, spent 17 yrs there with me, now in Oz as he was just missing family too much! Love it here (even tho I have no really friends yet sob)

BRISBANE bouj
I'm aus, dh english. been back 2 years now
kids: ds1 3.5yrs, ds2 17weeks.

eidsvold - proper aussie
KIDS: dd1 - 4yo , dd2 - almost 2, bump - due end of mar 2007

flannelettepyjamas (formerly yummimummy)
4 years
DH (Aussie), DD 15 months. Bump due end March (same day as Eidsvold - spooky)

MELBOURNE tangox3
Moved to Melbourne (Camberwell) mid-August
kids: ds 2, bump due 4th Nov
Come from NZ but have lived overseas since 2000.

PERTH

HumpyDumpy
Been here 8 months
Got a DD 2years old Aussie DH.
I'm abit of an erratic poster, as don't always have access to a computer as DH takes laptop to work.

Suzywong
2 years
boys 5 and 3
Australian dh
bloody love it but miss Boots and Waitrose

SYDNEY Arfishymeau
already here - Eastern Suburbs Sydney (Coogee)
kids: 1 permanent DD of 3.8, 2 x DSS of 20 & 15 (hols as at Uni/Secondary school in UK. Hoping they'll transfer)

MrsBigD
looking at moving there April/May 2008, no idea which area yet but looking like North Shore somewhere
kids: dd currently nearly 5, ds 2 in 2 days

PeppaPigsMum
since May
Northern Beaches (previously in Melbourne for 7 months)
kids: 1 dd - 2.5 yrs
on a long-term business visa - dp working, i'm a SAHM at the moment. still deciding whether we'd like to stay or not

Robinpud
coming to Sydney for 1 year ( but who knows?!) exchange arriving on 22.01.07
dh ,dd aged 9, dd aged 5

Sunnydelight
Moving to Sydney next April, holidaying there first for three weeks in November (shame it wasn't January, I could have joined the meet up!). I'm pretty convinced by people on here to go North Shore, but don't know quite where yet.
Kids: DS1 13, DS2 7 and DD 3.
It would be great to know people in Sydney - particularly others with "widely spaced" families!

TribeofFive
Moving endDec06/Jan07
Suburb not decided yet
DH,dd13,ds4,dd3,dd1 and hopefully ds15 summer07, AND the cat

UK

DERBY

Astrophe
Australian, living in Derby for 3 years (returning to Aust 2009??)
Lived on the north shore, so thats my specialty (ask me anything )
Kids: DD 2.3, DS 6 months

GLASGOW

Katyjo
previously Port Melbourne
We haven't quite decided yet.
We were living in Melbourne but came back last september, got married in december, had ds in march (we have been together for 12 years but everything happened at once!)

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tribeoffive · 11/09/2006 13:41

SUNNYD Got a nice man (i hope) coming wednesday to prepare another quote for moving our stuff and the CAT. If the cat thing works out the most expensive well then the cat is def BUGGERED![SAD]

Papillon · 11/09/2006 13:44

i will work on dh bout cat

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MrsBigD · 11/09/2006 14:17

as per the other thread...

just could not resist

TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN, SPORT

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sunnydelight · 11/09/2006 19:56

I really don't want to bring the cat conversation to the new thread - there are limits If you find a way of transporting cats tribeoffive I would be very grateful for the info. BTW have you got any further with a decision about where to live? I'll probably check out St. Ives in November (mainly because of what Bloss has said about schools), but realistically we might have to go nearer to the train line.

sunnydelight · 11/09/2006 19:57

That should of course have read a CHEAP way of transporting cats!!!!!!

mymama · 13/09/2006 12:43

just seen this

mymama - born and bred aussie
Brisbane
hoping to spend a year in uk NOv 2007 - Oct 2008.
dd 8
ds1 5
ds2 3
have many uk friends just emigrated last 2 years who tell me that speaking englsh is the only thing the two countries have in common.

Original poster

MrsBigD · 13/09/2006 12:59

And to integrate mymama

ADELAIDE

Sandcastles (previously melissasmummy)
10 weeks
DD 3
dh emigrated here when he was 4, came to uk for holiday, met me, spent 17 yrs there with me, now in Oz as he was just missing family too much! Love it here (even tho I have no really friends yet sob)

BRISBANE bouj
I'm aus, dh english. been back 2 years now
kids: ds1 3.5yrs, ds2 17weeks.

eidsvold - proper aussie
KIDS: dd1 - 4yo , dd2 - almost 2, bump - due end of mar 2007

flannelettepyjamas (formerly yummimummy)
4 years
DH (Aussie), DD 15 months. Bump due end March (same day as Eidsvold - spooky)

mymama
born and bred aussie
hoping to spend a year in uk NOv 2007 - Oct 2008.
kids: dd 8 , ds1 5 , ds2 3
have many uk friends just emigrated last 2 years who tell me that speaking english is the only thing the two countries have in common.