BeauVinyl
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Hi @Lavers we get a minimum amount of subsidence from OSHC but it's not that, it's the availability that's tricky. We hope that there'll be more spaces available after Xmas as at my kids primary both year 6 and 7 move up so that the schools around here fall into line with the rest of Australia and that the starting year for Secondary is now Year 7 and not year 7 being the last year in primary. This will help. How are you these days?
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@Drumbeat yes, we had a discount of over £800 as we had booked the AirBnB for 10 weeks but luckily the owner is really good and I've helped her organise having solar panels on the roof so she's been good with us leaving.
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Hi @Pompey gt Glad to hear you are out of quarantine and have a rental, congratulations on that as I know how hard it is to get one and glad to hear the boys are enjoying school. We picked up the keys to our rental property today and move in tomorrow. We've been lucky that the owner of the AirBnB has let us finish the contract here early as we still had 6 weeks left in the AirBnB but we had to get what we could round here as the rental is in an ideal spot for all of us. We are moving from Blackwood into Hawthorndene and are situated close to the Blackwood station so that my wife can get a 20 min train into the CBD for work. This will also help as my son is in Blackwood secondary in January and he and his friends will all get the train there (only one stop along the line). Not all has gone too smoothly though, what is crippling us is OSHC and that the after school is full 2-3 days of the week meaning only on of us can work at the moment. We hope this will change in January when years 6 and 7 move up to secondary and there will be spaces for my daughter. I'm hoping that I've found a way round this as I do have a job starting on the 11th October and hope that if we can get the kids after school sorted then I'll be able to bring in a second income and we'll be good up until the MASSIVE Christmas holidays (7 weeks, I think) then we'll have to 'wing it' through those. Last week my wife and I drove up to the hills and loved it up there, went up Mt. Lofty and walked the botanic gardens, but where we really loved was Hahndorf, it's lovely street and great shops, expensive as it's a tourist place but really nice. I also think we liked it because we do miss a bot of Europe here ad Hahndorf gave us that so if you are near there then good on you because it's a lovely region of Adelaide. Glad to hear all's well as well, keep us updated. Beau
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yeah, true about meeting up with people. Thanks.
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Thanks for this @rammygirl, we are aware of the insurance and the bush fire protocol around here. Regarding your Koala, I'm watching a Cookaborough chirping/screaming at a cat. Beautiful.
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Hi Curly, I hope all is well. I'm in Adelaide and would like to play 5-a-side, if there's a space then I'd be interested. Beau
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Regarding our Singapore flights, we downloaded the Singapore Airlines app and signed into it. I checked the flight statue 6/7 times a day and found the app pretty good.
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Hi @Captain Ron regarding Quantas, their CEO has come out today and put pressure on the government regarding national and international flights, saying that they are looking to run 75% of flights from the beginning of December as this was mentioned in the Aus parliament a few months ago before I got here so that's positive for everyone.
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@Craig Colas @Ben P Regarding our flight, we had a small issue with the flight around 6 weeks before we left, Singapore Airways changed our Singapore to Adelaide flight meaning we couldn't make the connection from London. We flew with the Flight Center agency and they were fantastic so after 5 days of waiting we were moved a day forward which didn't mess us up much and then hoped the flight and our seats wouldn't move, and they didn't. I did speak to a family at Heathrow and they had said their flights had been cancelled 4 times but that was in May/June time, after then it was pretty secure. The news from over here is that people are incredibly upset about the flight situation and are putting pressure on the government and state premiers (SP) to lift the ban so the Govt. and SP's have said that when Australia are around 70 - 80% vaccinated they'll open up the country meaning flight caps and internal / external flight restrictions will ease / drop. Looking at that timeline, last night on South Australian news it was reported that this could be achieved November / December time so hopefully this should make flying into the country a little easier and I hope this gives you both some reassurance albeit minimal.
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Good luck to you @Ben P. We are over the moon but still apprehensive, we leave quarantine where we have been fed, felt safe and been entertained to the outside world, the 'real' world and it's a bit scary. I'll keep updates coming in when I have things to say. All the best.
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Everything crossed for you. On our flights (both of them) as there were only 30ish people on the flight and 95% of them were going on to Adelaide we were allowed to lie all over the seats which made it more bearable and I'm 6ft 5. Food was good but we took snacks for the kids (pringles, cheese biscuits) which was a godsend as on the first flight we had breakfast and main meal and this was the same for the second flight, exactly the same food, so a pringle and cracker interlude went down well with the kids.
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@Jon the Hat is it Singapore you are flying with?
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Hi Ben, yes, we got on our scheduled flights. They were quiet, as was the airport, but it went pretty smoothly.
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Hi Jon, I do understand. It's been hard but have been in touch a lot with the parents and they have both have given their blessing for me to do what I am doing, which helps. As traumatic as it was once here it feels good. Quarantine have been a bit of a pain due to that 'groundhog day' feeling but we have two nights lift and then onto our AirBnB. What are your plan when you get out here?