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My Aussie husband had to take this test before he got his British Citizenship in 2009. I'm so glad I did not have to take it! He studied the book every night after work for weeks and managed to pass Phew! At his Citizenship Ceremony he had to stand with all the other Citizens to Be and swear allegiance to Her Majesty."Thats bloody twice I've had to do that!"...He used to be in the Australian Navy.....

Aussie hubby is happy to have his tan back! Me? , my English/Scottish skin goes red at the slightest touch of the sun. He is like the weather advisor at the mo....." dont open windows on the sunny side of the house, it lets the warmer air in. Close the bedroom curtains all day and open the window when the sun has gone down." "Drink loads, suncream on, hat on if poss". "Put a heat deflector screen inside the car windscreen if parked up for long periods in the sun" etc etc etc....he's loving it mindya, works outside all day where his Pommie workmates are suffering. "This is nuthin mate..wait till youve had over 40c for weeks on end, now THATS hot!" :biggrin:

This one always has my Aussie hubby emotional now he is a resident of the UK.....often find him singing along at the computer <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wWhPtaFXnvA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Hi Eugene, I don't know if this will help but our circumstances are....my husband is an Australian Citizen born n bred. He worked and paid Super in Australia for 42 years and now he has migrated to the UK. He CANNOT access his Super until he retires here in the UK, and we hope it will be released as a lump sum. If he had been temporarily resident in Australia he WOULD have been able to access it on leaving Australia.

Yes. Correct. Aussie hubby worked in Australia from leaving school until leaving Australia at 41, and paid into their pension scheme. He wont get anything from Australia except his Super, but he WILL qualify for a UK state pension when he retires.

Aussie hubby was really looking forward to snow here in Northumberland when we moved back over. He got it in abundance last year when he was working on the gritters for Northumberland County Council, out all hours of the day and night LOL. Our snow this year has come to nowt.. a centimetre if that LOL..we sent it south for a change! The shops mustve been expecting a lot-Ive never seen so many snow shovels on sale!

I tend to agree. I'm happily married to an Aussie (his family have been there since the convict days), but step-FIL will NOT watch any Brit films etc. He says "Why would I wanna watch Pommie crap? I live in the greatest country in the world so am not interested". I found many (I stress not all) Aussies to be quite ignorant about the outside world because they're so far removed from it, and many not likely to ever leave Australia. My Sister in Law thought Manchester was a London suburb, and Wales was in Ireland!

Ah yes..... he has family in Aus, and I have family here. Always a pull one way or another. But he always says if the day ever comes when we want to go back to Aus, then, like you, it would be to Tassie. (He lived there for 13 years working in the coppermines) His Aussie heart is there

haha! My niece lives in Esh Winning and I think she'd agree....she's often said its a small village with loads of bother in it! We live a bit further north in Northumberland (my hubbys a born n bred Aussie) but we like it here, and he has British Citizenship now. We lived together in Adelaide for a while, where his extended family still live. Now, we only go back for holidays, and hubby is usually the one who says "get me out of this hell hole" when we are there in Oz.

I used to be absolutely terrified. The first time I flew I had white knuckles all the way, dry mouth, couldnt eat anything and never used the toilet. I sat absolutely petrified all the way, listening for every bang of the engine and every little change, and that was just a 2 hour flight to Spain! Then we got brave and flew to Florida..halfway over the Atlantic I noticed the sun was on the wrong side of the plane. A passenger had passed away on the flight and we were being diverted to Glasgow, where we spent the night in the Holiday Inn and had to start all over again the next day as the crews flying hours were up. Since then I have flown back and forward to Australia many times, visiting my hubbys family. I still dont like it much, but now its the boredom of the flight that gets to me more than the fear of flying. Only one time was I scared, and that was on a flight to Adelaide, (at the same point in the flight as a previous poster said) over the Bay of Bengal, we hit really bad turbulence, on a Qantas flight. The stewardess was handing out coffees when we dropped like a stone and she droped to her kneew before scuttling off...meal trays were sliding onto the floor, people were screaming,and overhead lockers were opening up and stuff flying about in the cabin. Now THAT was a tad unsettling! LOL...not for my hubby though-he slept through it all! Now I just say to myself..the crew do this flight day in and day out and they are all calm and getting on with it. If its my time then its my time and theres nothing I can do about it. I try to get into an onboard film or two, and I even walk around the cabin sometimes, and HAVE to use the toilet on long haul LOL. I cant say I will ever LIKE flying but at least I can tolerate it better now than I used to. Wish the seats were softer though!