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The parent visa is very expensive if you don't want to wait all those years. The only option now for migrants wishing to bring their parents to Australia is the "contributory parent" visa – at a cost of $47,120, plus a bond of $10,000 to cover any welfare payments made over a 10-year period. The total is $105,905 to bring two parents to Australia.

^^^^ Gorgeous!

Hand on my heart I haven't come across any Australians bad mouthing the English or England - in fact many of them loved going there on holiday BUT I agree about some media people making snide comments about the UK - that does make me cranky :mad:

Great thread!! Must be a complete nightmare for those parents.

Sitting in an office all day when I was working probably wasn't helping lose any weight (heel never bothered me then) but I've lost weight over the last year and am quite fit. Anyway, I'll take your advice - probably try a different walking shoe though the ones I have are supposed to be very supportive.

I'll try that Stacey - I don't think it's gout either more like a tender tendon. Bloody painful though.

Foot excercies eh ................ I'll google that and give it a try.

^^^ What kind of pain was it Stacey because for the past few month I've had really sore heels - not low down or under them but where the foot joins the leg if you know what I mean. It feels really tender then I get shooting pains up my calves. I do a lot of walking and it's so sore to do so sometimes. I should really go to the doc but so far I've been gritting my teeth and getting on with it.

I use tofu in lots of meatless recipes. My favourite is a Thai red curry. Yummy!

Same here :cool:

There is Ikea and Harvey Norman. I don't know what DFS is I'm afraid.

I don't know about the job market but the best time of year would be in the Australian winter. The weather will be lovely then. It's very hot and humid in the summer and the wet season can last 'til about Easter.

I often wonder how this happened. I worked with a lovely Fijian Indian young lady. She developed an awful cough and I said she should go to her doctor but she said it was just a cold and didn't bother. The cough didn't get better and one day she coughed so much she threw up so I said you MUST go to your doctor. Anyway she did and after tests it was confirmed she had TB!!! She was off work for weeks and had to take 15 different pills every day under supervision of a nurse. All of us who worked with her had to have tests. Nobody else in her family had TB. It is a mystery how she acquired the disease.

I've just finished reading this thread and it has to be one of the best on the forum :smile:

Couldn't have put it better myself :yes:

^^^ I always smile to myself when I hear young folk saying "Having a baby won't change our lives so much" ..... little do they know :wink:

They sure did. My grandmother was 51 when she had my Dad. She thought she'd finished having her babies (5 in all) at the age of 38. He grew up to be a fine, strapping man. Grandma lived to the ripe old age of 97 :cute:

Once they are past the toddler stage or the terrible twos, you're right .... they are a lot of fun.

Oh don't get me started on the yummy mummy cafes :laugh: To be avoided at all times unless you have a baby/toddler of course.

Glad someone else owns up to not doing babies and kids. Same here :wink: I really can't be bothered with anyone else's baby or toddler. Just this morning as I was ambling around the supermarket there was a child screaming like a stuck pig and another one roaring it's head off. Felt sorry for the young Mums but Jeez! I couldn't get out of the place fast enough. Funnily enough, I have never ending patience with animals.

I never thought I wanted children when I was your age either Stacey :wink:

My son is dyslexic. He went to a state school and was given a lot of help from primary school onward. He needed special tinted glasses, extra time for exams and exam papers printed on green paper. Perhaps he wasn't as bad as some dyslexics. He was given special consideration at uni (extra time) and coped fine.

I found when I was pregnant, it was mainly women who gave up their seat for me. The men (not all of them) hid behind the Sydney Morning Herald :cool:

I had crap pregnancies (dreadful morning sickness) but very easy births and always had loads of energy probably helped by the fact my babies started to sleep 12 hour nights from the age of 3 months. However, they never needed much sleep during the day but I could easily cope with that and I was in my 30's.