Dreamy Fish

Hi Kiwi Can I ask, are you in Mango Hill now? You mentioned buying an a lot there. DF x

People only reveal the parts of themselves and details of their situations to friends, family and the wider public that they wish to make known. No-one but the OP and his wife will truly know what's going on. He sounds like he's grieving to me and doesn't know what to do. I feel really bad for him. He's not just a dad, he's still a person in his own right and it's not fair to judge him, he's not a bad person.

Visas granted this morning!! Holy ****!!!!!

It's the Amazon One-Click. I am rendered defenceless by the ease with which it can present the purchase of a new Yankee!

Hi Davinia, how's it all going with the move? Did you ever get to take a look around Frankston South?

I'll PM you. Just been through this, funnily enough in Oxfordshire.

Hurrah! Thanks :-)

Ah thanks guys. The candles are all contained within glass jars with lids so I hope that would help keep their shape. I am am addicted to the things, my only vice!

They are made from paraffin wax and non lead wicks.

Hi Just happily added another Yankee to my ever growing collection and someone I'm sitting here with (currently in the UK) just told me I might not be allowed to ship to Australia- please someone say this isn't so?!?! DF x

Hi, our 190 visas lodged on 27 August last week and we got an email this morning from migration consultant today with what looks like a case officer (team 32 Brisbane) requesting meds and police checks by end Sept. Does that sound like we have a CO assigned?

Hi there, I will send you a private message shortly, it'll be easier to chat that way x

The parent who wants to go. I didn't want to post publicly about it because I've seen how judgmental it can get here. But my god I am so happy right now.

Thanks for the responses. After a two day hearing, I won. Df x

Hi there I consider that I live in a "good area", yes it has it's less desirable parts but as far as I was aware, the schools were really well thought of. My son is in one of the preferred primary schools and I am really happy with it. And I thought that the upper school that he will move into (if we don't go to Australia) was supposed to be a really good one. So today I was so shocked and upset when a friend from a toddler group I go to with my daughters showed me a print out of her sons Instagram account that this upper school had given to her. He is 12 years old and between him and what looked like 3 other children of the same age there was the most appalling language, "F" this and "C" that. There was seriously sexually explicit chat going on and also some proper racist stuff, it was really truly nasty and a complete eye opener. It would seem the school isn't doing anything about it, I would imagine because they consider it (rightly) the parents responsibility but there was talk of suspension and there are behavioural issues too. This child comes from a broken home and whilst my friend (his mother) does not allow her son to carry ipods/phones or access social media in her home, he is however allowed to in his paternal grandmothers and there is a power struggle between these two adults with the obvious resulting consequences. Because we want to move to Australia (myriad of reasons but I don't want to get into debates of having rose tints on etc) I just wondered if any parents could share their experience of this type of peer pressure. Is it common and how do schools and parents deal with it. My son is 8, I know it sounds weird but we don't watch live television so he isn't exposed to all the ads aimed at kids. He doesn't have a mobile device and I will not allow him access to social media until the appropriate age which as far as I am concerned is in excess of 16. I also don't like buying into the latest faddy crap like Moshis and Minecraft because I think it is expensive, transient and I feel like it creates a nasty competitiveness between those who have it all and those who don't. I want my child not to care! DF x