The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
All about our adventures in Oz.
Australia / August 26, 2006 / John / 0
I’ve just done a BACS transfer of a substantial five-figure sum to our currency broker. It was sore. Still, it’s done now and it’s still ours – it just isn’t in pounds any more. Other than that – not much happening. It’s all likely to kick off next week, so we’re enjoying a relatively sane
Australia / August 23, 2006 / John / 0
Yup – apparently so. There’s been no movement whatsoever, of course, but then we expected that. We’re very much in limbo at the moment. I’m having various conversations at work about handovers and we’re looking around for flights and planning a leaving party, but there’s nothing we can actually commit to at present. It’s looking
Australia / August 17, 2006 / John / 0
So, have a look up top there. See that bit that says fifteen months and one week? Well, let me enlighten you. The first fourteen months and three weeks of that are a cakewalk. Sure, you hop from panic to panic – first you worry about getting stuff together for the skills assessment, then you
Australia / August 10, 2006 / John / 0
Had a phonecall from the panel doctor who conducted our medicals. When they said “they’ve been sent off today” they didn’t mean the medicals had been sent to Sydney. They meant the HIV tests had been sent off. Anyhoo, I received a call yesterday saying that everything had come back from the labs clear and
Australia / August 8, 2006 / John / 0
The police clearances from Scotland Yard arrived this morning and I’ve couriered them along to our agent. The whole bundle is being pulled together today and sent by courier to Adelaide. So that’s absolutely everything we need to do. Our sponsor still has a few non-DIMA related loose ends to tie up at the far
Australia / August 5, 2006 / John / 0
Adelaide pulled a blinder on us a few weeks ago. When they asked for medicals and police checks to be done, they also said that – as there had been some stationary changes – we should resubmit the WHOLE application on the new stationary. I’m glad I didn’t do the application myself or I’d have
Australia / August 2, 2006 / John / 0
Well, medicals have been sent off, sponsorship and assurance of support are in hand, but there’s nothing more we can do until the police reports arrive, so we’re sitting on our hands once again. The medicals will likely have arrived in Sydney by now, so at least that’s one thing out of the way. Once
Australia / July 29, 2006 / John / 0
Well, we’ve moved – we’ve finally offloaded the dirty great millstone that’s been around our necks for ten years. Crown Removals were extremely professional and I can’t recommend them enough. The guys came in and got straight down to it – packing and wrapped four hundred cubic feet of posessions and lugging them into the
Australia / July 26, 2006 / John / 0
Well, Crown Removals are coming to uplift and store all the stuff we’re shipping over tomorrow. We’re still frantically packing, having to get stuff ready for shipping, deciding what we’re taking to the other house, and working out what to do with all the rest. We had our chest x-rays done today, so at some
Australia / July 25, 2006 / John / 0
Well, today has been….. interesting. But enough of that. Sponsorship and Assurance of Support has now been lodged with Centerlink in Australia, so it’s just a matter of attending Xrays, waiting for police clearances, and that’s it. So, we’re pretty much focussing on moving house at the moment. We’re forming two piles – stuff to