Well here i am all settled in our new home in Sydney, Just waiting on Tony & kids arriving next Thursday 16th Jan. Well my first night here in our new home was a bit of a scary experience, if you had seen me you would have laughed & laughed & laughed but i didnt because i put the air conditioner on which was fine all clear i was doing just fine, i goes to the toilet then sees a cockroach, well i pooped my pants as i not physically seen one for real before in my entire life so out came the spray (thankyou Jo for the advice of what to buy, you saved my life ) it died then i goes back into living room to watch telly but when i looked up at the air conditioner unit there was something staring at me out of the vents, well that was it, i was OMG WHAT THE HECK IS THAT, no it wasnt small to me it was blooming big, again i pooped my pants, out came the spray (I have a lot to thank Jo for for recommending this spray ) i moved the furniture and sprayed for dear life of which it fell on the floor but nope it wasnt dead, i pooped myself again so i am spraying and spraying then i had enough of it still wriggling so out came a box i had so it got a good beating of which i may add took a few hits to finish it off then i rang Jo in a frenzy which she told me i should have took photos of it but all i could think of at the time is you are not sharing my blooming bed I finds out after meeting one of our neighbours that is was a light brown grasshopper. Well i am sorry if anyone thinks i was cruel but at the time and my first night here i had no idea what it was and it was in my space and was not stopping for supper. After all that i could not sleep all night so was awake all night. Next morning i saw another cockroach so sprayed that and then went shopping and got cockroack baits of which are now all over the house and i went and bought one if them plug in elecric signal things what sends out signals to deter beasties and believe it or not i have not had one beastie in this house since and i have been here for 2 & half weeks now. Our dog lies tomorrow and will arrive in quarantine on thursday and our furniture is on it was now thanks to GBLiners who apparently did a fantastic job packing it all up, and ye people they even packed up my Rabbit (after hubby cursed me like for leaving it behind for him to sort and explain to customs hehehe) but they didnt take anything out of draws so didnt see it lol, we should get our furniture etc middle to end of february. I have got my Ozzy driving licence now which i did day after arriving in Oz, got my golden sticker in my passport and got our new car too so all tony has to do when he gets here is build the 15ft pool we bought so he has it easy lol. I started work on the wednesday after xmas and am absolutely loving it, made work friends too and a lot of them are from the UK too so that helps, been doing a lot of night shifts so hence reason i havent been on here much and i only got my internet on on 3rd Jan. The only other thing i can say is I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck to all the others waiting on there visas, wont be long now and congratulations to all of you who got your visas while i been offline. It is and was all worth it as it is an amazing country, missed you all muahhhhhh xxxxxx
Lynne
Great to hear you have settled so well & that work car etc is all going great for you.
Where abouts in Sydney are you ??
Enjoy yourself and many best wishes for your future in oz
gizmo x
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Glad youve found your feet and are settling well,looks like youve had a few experiences with the wildlife,lol,,but thankfully nothing too scarey ,,hope everything goes well and tony gets there fine take care
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Well look at you girl!!!! Living in Oz and living life to the full...Oh you did make me giggle on the fone, only because the blooming creepies wasnt in my house tho!!! So glad you are settling in well and will be heading down to see ya real soon..hey you forgot to mention about the sofa episode Lynne!!!
If any of you newbies ever worry about your visa then just read thru Lynnes threads, She never gave up and had mountains to climb but here she is, a true blue aussie... HUGZ xxxx
Awwwww thanks Jo you just made me cry yes i did forget to mention about the sofa episode as i bought a new black leather sofa and when guys came to deliver it they couldnt get it in the bloody door so it sat under my carport for a few days then a kind neighbour helped me and we squeezed it in the door as i said it WILL go in because i didnt want any other sofa, i wanted THIS ONE LMFAO and also when i was getting that beastie from the air conditioning it was ready to land on my other sofa where my jeans were so had a panic the beastie was going to land in my blooming jeans so had to move couch quick before the grasshopper fell out of the air conditioner unit well i looked like this at that point
Lynne
Great to hear you have settled so well & that work car etc is all going great for you.
Where abouts in Sydney are you ??
Enjoy yourself and many best wishes for your future in oz
gizmo x
Hi Gizmo, thanks hun, i am in Kellyville which is near the Koala Park and right near Castle Hill, hope you are well and good luck with your future too
Just wanted to also say i have posted some photos on the gallery of me in my PIO T-Shirt at the airport and some of house and car, dont know how long it will take PIO to show them but they have uploaded fine just awaiting on the approval they have to go through
Lynne
Great to hear you have settled so well & that work car etc is all going great for you.
Where abouts in Sydney are you ??
Enjoy yourself and many best wishes for your future in oz
gizmo x
Where do you live Gizmo, just though we might be able to meet up sometime if you liked
Hi Lynne
I know the koala park - but not really that area only been passed the park a few times.
I am on the central coast so if you ever coming this way give me a yell, yep maybe i could meet with you sometime that would be good
gizmo
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Hi Lynne, was only talking about you on FNCC this week, and asking if anyone had hear from you and how you were doing, and there you are...................
So glad you have settled in so well, and only just over a week until Tony and the kids arrival, how quick did that go.......(probably not for you)
Keep us posted how it's going...............
KP Nuts
ps, pete says Pepper need to go to sleep.....................
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) it died then i goes back into living room to watch telly but when i looked up at the air conditioner unit there was something staring at me out of the vents, well that was it, i was OMG WHAT THE HECK IS THAT, no it wasnt small to me it was blooming big, again i pooped my pants, out came the spray (I have a lot to thank Jo for for recommending this spray 
) i moved the furniture and sprayed for dear life of which it fell on the floor but nope it wasnt dead, i pooped myself again so i am spraying and spraying then i had enough of it still wriggling so out came a box i had so it got a good beating of which i may add took a few hits to finish it off then i rang Jo in a frenzy which she told me i should have took photos of it but all i could think of at the time is you are not sharing my blooming bed 
I finds out after meeting one of our neighbours that is was a light brown grasshopper. Well i am sorry if anyone thinks i was cruel but at the time and my first night here i had no idea what it was and it was in my space and was not stopping for supper. After all that i could not sleep all night so was awake all night. Next morning i saw another cockroach so sprayed that and then went shopping and got cockroack baits of which are now all over the house and i went and bought one if them plug in elecric signal things what sends out signals to deter beasties and believe it or not i have not had one beastie in this house since and i have been here for 2 & half weeks now. Our dog lies tomorrow and will arrive in quarantine on thursday and our furniture is on it was now thanks to GBLiners who apparently did a fantastic job packing it all up, and ye people they even packed up my Rabbit (after hubby cursed me like for leaving it behind for him to sort and explain to customs hehehe) but they didnt take anything out of draws so didnt see it lol, we should get our furniture etc middle to end of february. I have got my Ozzy driving licence now which i did day after arriving in Oz, got my golden sticker in my passport and got our new car too so all tony has to do when he gets here is build the 15ft pool we bought so he has it easy lol. I started work on the wednesday after xmas and am absolutely loving it, made work friends too and a lot of them are from the UK too so that helps, been doing a lot of night shifts so hence reason i havent been on here much and i only got my internet on on 3rd Jan. The only other thing i can say is I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xxxxxx
yes i did forget to mention about the sofa episode as i bought a new black leather sofa and when guys came to deliver it they couldnt get it in the bloody door so it sat under my carport for a few days then a kind neighbour helped me and we squeezed it in the door as i said it WILL go in because i didnt want any other sofa, i wanted THIS ONE LMFAO 
and also when i was getting that beastie from the air conditioning it was ready to land on my other sofa where my jeans were so had a panic the beastie was going to land in my blooming jeans so had to move couch quick before the grasshopper fell out of the air conditioner unit 
