onecrankypom

Lived in North Lakes for 5 years and have to say you don;t get alot for your money

Melbourne was a great move still travel up to Brisbane to see the Boys feel like i found home here in Melbourne just a few things to sort out been here since April 12 Brisbane seems like a distant memory but This once cranky pom a happy one still things to sort out regarding the boys but Im happy finally

Possible having to make a trip home in under a week so want to sort aussie passport out dont know any one in melbourne any advice how ican get some to veirfy who i'm this needs to be done tomorrow and have no idea where to turn as i not sure i be coming back

Mordy? cant find that on the map and how do i contact these people

Urgently need a room as flatmate has turned nasty and decided to give me notice only been in melbourne for 6 weeks and really at wits end. Private message me.

CAl you know where to find me lol

As most of you know i was heading back to the UK but Late Novemeber **** hit the fan with Ex wife to be lol now she moved back to her parents and taken my boys didn't react the best way in the worse split ever. Spent Xmas on my own and even had the boys denied access to my Australian citizenship cerm and this week i been made out to be a nut case yes i did things wrong but i realized she wasn't worth fighting for anymore. But staying here in Aus to get my rights sorted and meet a nurse from Melb and both agreed to return to the UK in 2 years time together so hoping to give a different city a chance and learn one lesson not to rush in to marriage again.

Have to be honest going through this at present have admit not been the perfect husband in the world and the last two weeks i been so out of character it not funny but having in-laws 5 mins and them expecting me to run around after her like a fly in a bucket really pushed the arguments up for example i slept in till 7am and she got up with the kids at 6am no one bothered to wake me so that was wrong. Can't say i been calm as she decide on Friday she wasn't going away for a week but come sunday she was so arguments fired up then. Trying to save a marriage so rang till she would answer but she turned the phone off and of course she cam e home on monday saying we would talk about it but pretty much she wasnt interested in talk so it got me going and the inlaws are involved which made it worse. Feel like i backed into a corner because she wants to walk away and having two boys feeling i have them sing this all against me so i cant see them really at a point she doesn't want counselling and yeah i know i said we splitting up but woke up ad smelled the roses. no idea where to turn and not working made it worse

Good to hear that family trying to scary me off coming home but Feb the date I leave this nightmare of a country after this year any where better thn Brisbane and Aus looking forward to coming home just hoping my divorce comes through before i leave be a second bonus and a great start to the new year

Australia doesn't work out for every one yes returning home a huge cost and people may be forced to leave stuff here and maybe put shipping or a flight on a credit card at least they tried it and not sat in the UK wondering what if

I have to say i'm a whiniging pom never settled for second best and never afraid of hard work but to get made redundant twice in 4 years and end up on contract roles that go no where and then get told that life get on with doesn't cut it with me.

Already had a few on the way home to night lol

Moving back seems like a forever in a day just getting all my stuff ready for my Australian citizenship so i can come back when every. Bu t in the mean time the ex to be has decided she telling the in-laws 3 months early so this weekend going to be hell weekend as far as i can see. Secondly will i be able to use my Australian drivers licence in the UK or will i have to take a test again i never had a full licence in the UK and the DVLA website not helpfully only passed in Feb this year. Want to confirm dates for my flights but no idea how long my citizenship going to take and finally leaving part way through next tax year how does me moving and working still effect that

I know the sense of relief you feeling that for sure counting down to September but hoping the econmey back home picks up walking in the same way i walked in to aus lol

If you want work you find it that my through most ozzies haven't been through as many recessions as us Brits have. The last one before the GFC was 1997 for the aussies as for for the DOT com bust and 9/11

even through i only get to see the boys 8weeks of the year we always got skype and the telephone but i know i have to do this gor me to stay saine

Booked my flight home for September feeling alot better once i did it. Brisbane has really been a test over the last 4 years all through my family are not happy that i'm leaving my wife and boys behind i know i doing the right thing we both decided to go are separate ways and agreed the best custody arrangements possible for the boys so hopefully no issues will become of that. Just sitting on my fingers and not saying a word to any one at work even through it the job i wanted from the start it come to late to save me from going home. feel like a weight has been lifted off me already talking to people about work back home accommodation is sorted. Just no idea what i do about my tax return for here when i leave in september for next year and hoping my citerzenship comes through in time

June I hit the 4 years of being here and after a lot of thinking and talking I finally made my mind up to head back to the UK people may say I'm mad especially when I know when I get on the Plane in September I be going alone as the wife and kids will not be coming. People may also say I'm being selfish but I can't say all the Australian way of life is for me. Yeah I live in a great suburb (NL) in Brisbane and have the beach 10mins away but the lack of really friends i can trust with stuff that I have to grind up inside until i speak to a friend back home has eaten me up inside. I know I have a great wife and kids but i miss the career I had in London and friends i could rely on when times hit rock bottom and i know we all have them but there one thing i hear every week from friends and family back home You should be happy we see this programme where people move to Oz and they have it all the job they want and every thing else i general say well i didnt come out on a work visa and it not all roses here but would always recommend they give it a go Sorry for the rant

It been ages since i last posted a lot happened since then. Both my boys are growing and celebrating 3 birthdays in a matter of days apart going to be interesting in the cranky house in the next month or so apart from being retrenched from the second time in 3.5 years spirts are still high. Recent passed my driving licence and at my age it feel a little to late to be driving like a boy racer lost youth i guess. On the up side landed a role similar to what i had in London taken 3.5 year even through it only temp it may go Perm hoping so cause it the last chance saloon can't say i been a great husband t but really at a cross roads on whether i'm heading home alone or staying out here.

I know the feeling been here for over 3 years know and I'm close to leaving as i feel i not as happy in the jobs i had since i been here getting married and having 2 wonderfully boys has filled the void i had in the UK but getting back into the industry i loved and enjoyed that made me a happy person. I know it simple as changing jobs just not getting the breaks i had in the UK. Even with my ex girlfriend moving out here hasn't helped but know she a good friend who i can talk to and relates to me more then the wife and inlaws which is strange as she caused me hassle back home

Thanks everyone mother and baby doing well

Well i'm trying still to convince agencies in Melbourne and Sydney we are serious on moving state it like getting a piece of string knocking on a brickwall even making a visit to Sydney doesn't seem enough for some strange reason i'm expected to move with out a job and a family no idea what money grows on lol. Hopefully soon Geoff as I really want a good old chat and a few beers. Trying to stay positive at the moment but you can imagine patients very thin at the moment.

After a long labour Ryden Vaughan was born on the 2nd April 2011 at 7.29am Mother and baby are doing well. Couldn't be more happier :jiggy: