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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Steve_PD on 08 November 2012, 21:04
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So after 6 months of job applications and a few interviews trying to get a job closer to home Ive been offered a job which involves more travelling.......
In Australia :cool:
Ill be working for a engineering company who work in the gold mines in Western Australia.
Hopefully (visa depending) Ill be making the move out there in the early part of the new year, cant wait :cool:
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you know my feelings, Cnut :lipsrsealed:
been a longish road but your almost there mate :afro:
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Oh wow. Sounds exciting! Once in a live job by sound like to me! :smiley:
Moving family out there also?
What about the dub!? :huh: :lipsrsealed:
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Wow!! :shocked:
Congrats Steve :cool: enjoy :smiley:
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you know my feelings, Cnut :lipsrsealed:
been a longish road but your almost there mate :afro:
Cheers muka. Hopefully be applying for visa next week :smiley: Up for a leaving curry.... :whistle: :grin:
Oh wow. Sounds exciting! Once in a live job by sound like to me! :smiley:
Moving family out there also?
What about the dub!? :huh: :lipsrsealed:
It is and too good to turn down, I also had another job offer this week and they really want me and upped the money twice in 2 days!! But I have to do this.
No family just me and not alot of things to take so having a fresh start.
And the dub will be going! Bring on the V8 UTE :evil: :grin:
Wow!! :shocked:
Congrats Steve :cool: enjoy :smiley:
Cheers Rhyso :afro: Ill text you when am watching the F1 next year :grin:
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Time for a Holden!!
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Leaving curry, oh fcuk its going to get messy :lipsrsealed:
Might need another impromptu meet too :whistle:
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Might have a little shin dig before I go.
Time for a Holden!!
Thats the plan, ask Chuff what I was looking at few weeks ago :grin:
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Moving family out there also?
Trainers, a bike and his tools, that count as family :grin:
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Wales, Australia.... Sheep is Sheep :grin:
Best of luck Steve :cool:
Thom
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Nice one!!
Iv just applied for jobs offshore in Perth!! Iv got family out there also' so visa is sorted
Best of luck :cool:
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Leaving curry, oh fcuk its going to get messy :lipsrsealed:
Might need another impromptu meet too :whistle:
Try and time it all so you can help wet the baby's head :grin: :grin:
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Good move some half of my family live in Perth and Geraldton, its fecking lush in west Oz mucho jealous
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Leaving curry, oh fcuk its going to get messy :lipsrsealed:
Might need another impromptu meet too :whistle:
Try and time it all so you can help wet the baby's head :grin: :grin:
fooking hell, I am good, but not that good, - however, I haz a plan :whistle:
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Good move some half of my family live in Perth and Geraldton, its fecking lush in west Oz mucho jealous
Ill be a few mile away from Perth....360 miles in a town called Kalgoorlie, famous for its bars, naked waitresses and brothels.....thats me sorted then :evil: :cool: :laugh:
Nice one!!
Iv just applied for jobs offshore in Perth!! Iv got family out there also' so visa is sorted
Best of luck :cool:
Best of luck finding a job, I applied for around 250 in the country and 50 in Australia! What visa you getting?
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steve, gotta go old skool :wink:
http://www.autotrader.com.au/cars-for-sale/1969-HOLDEN-PREMIER-HK-ATF3240216/?backurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autotrader.com.au%2Fsearch%2F%3Furlname%3D%26search_location_state%3DWA%26search_type_make%3DHOLDEN%26search_type_model%3D%26search_details_lowest_price%3D%26search_details_highest_price%3D%26search_details_earliest_year%3D%26search_details_latest_year%3D%26keywords%3Dute%26current_page%3D2&backtext=Back+to+results
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That's not far in Oz, that's a short shopping trip :grin:
Oz is a nice place, My uncle keeps offering to take me on in his building firm one day maybe...
Good luck
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steve, gotta go old skool :wink:
http://www.autotrader.com.au/cars-for-sale/1969-HOLDEN-PREMIER-HK-ATF3240216/?backurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autotrader.com.au%2Fsearch%2F%3Furlname%3D%26search_location_state%3DWA%26search_type_make%3DHOLDEN%26search_type_model%3D%26search_details_lowest_price%3D%26search_details_highest_price%3D%26search_details_earliest_year%3D%26search_details_latest_year%3D%26keywords%3Dute%26current_page%3D2&backtext=Back+to+results
Thats sweet :cool: I like this.... (http://www.autotrader.com.au/cars-for-sale/2008-HOLDEN-COMMODORE-SS-V-VE-ATW3229919/?backurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autotrader.com.au%2Fsearch%2F%3Furlname%3D%26search_location_state%3DWA%26location%3DEnter%2Byour%2BSuburb%26radius%3D%26search_details_lowest_price%3D%26search_details_highest_price%3D40000%26search_details_earliest_year%3D%26search_details_latest_year%3D%26search_type_seller%3D%26search_details_lowest_mileage%3D%26search_details_highest_mileage%3D%26search_details_transmission%3D%26body_type%3D%26ext_colour%3D%26keywords%3Dv8%26current_page%3D2&backtext=Back+to+results) :evil:
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:grin: chuffs car searches goes global :laugh:
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My mate moved over to Australia a few years ago and commented o how stupidly expensive cars are over there! :shocked:
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Fair play mate, I'd love to move over there one day..
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Got a few ex-military mates who have taken the plunge to the mines in Oz.
They'll never come back...
Good luck matey :wink:
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Congrats and good luck with it all :afro:
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Nice one :cool:
I'm heading out to the East coast end of this year, not to work, but to travel :cool:
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What an opportunity! Nice one :afro:
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Leaving curry, oh fcuk its going to get messy :lipsrsealed:
Might need another impromptu meet too :whistle:
i'm in :evil:
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WOW! Exciting times mate! :cool: hope it all works out for ya. :afro:
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Cheers all :afro:
Hopefully applying for a 457 visa next week.
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All the best mate :afro:
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you still here :rolleyes:
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you still here :rolleyes:
Me?
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you still here :rolleyes:
Me?
no :kiss:
him :grin:
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you still here :rolleyes:
Me?
no :kiss:
him :grin:
Was going to say! lol. :kiss:
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Jammy git, im seriously envious. I spent almost a year out in oz about 5 years ago and had some of the best times of my life in one of the most beautiful countries ive ever been to. Ive always said id move there if the opportunity arise. Good luck fella.
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Awesome stuff Steve!
Good luck with it all.
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Any chance of mates rates for a couple of weeks? "MATE" :evil:
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You realise you can't get Adidas Superstar's there yeah? :tongue:
Nice one, hope it works out well :afro:
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Last night I booked my flights for Perth!! Going in feb!! :cool:
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Good skills. Make sure you post the video of you fighting kangaroos. :cool:
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Love that Ute!
I keep getting offers to go work there but I'm too old.
Good for you though Steve.
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Congratulations thats a fantastic opportunity, Good luck with the visa & the job :cool:
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This is great news for you, not so great for us lol but I hope all goes well pal :)
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Cheers all.
My nomination has been approved so applying for the visa tomorrow!
Got a criminal reference check done :lipsrsealed: Hopefully wont have too many problems with what I done in my youth..... :lipsrsealed: Been told Ill be fine but sh!tting it a little :whistle:
Hoping to book flights for the 30th of Jan to start work on the 4th Feb.
You realise you can't get Adidas Superstar's there yeah? :tongue:
Nice one, hope it works out well :afro:
What to buy any? :grin: Got a few many pairs going on ebay soon
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Best of luck for the move, you will have a great time. It'll still be pretty hot at the end of january.
Me and the wife were down in London on tuesday sorting out our passports, we're off to Adelaide in just over a week for 4 months, to escape the winter. Been around 4 years since i was there last so really looking forward to it.
The cars are great, and with all the dry weather there are lots of classics out there, especially american and japanese, euro stuff is a bit more expensive. Holden and ford are everywhere, almost everything is RWD, and usually a minimum of a v6/straight 6. Every single road junction will have many black snaking lines from it.
You cant buy beer in the supermarket or garage (servo), the have drive throughs for it so you dont even need to get out of your car, they will put the chilled carton straight into your boot. Good times
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Good luck mate!!! if it was me i would jump all over a similar opportunity :cool:
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Welsh miners, best in the world.
My Welsh granny had 9 brothers, all miners. All left Wales to distant parts of the world.
Enjoy your life in Aussie land. Watch you don't put yourself in queer street by spending too much on a flash car when you get there, thing are expensive down under.
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Visa application submitted :cool:
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Steve, you know when you've gone..... can I have you GIF :lipsrsealed:
:kiss: :kiss:
Thom
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:grin: :grin: :grin: Only if you do Henry proud and snort plenty of............flour
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:laugh:
oh and you still here :rolleyes:
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Not my fault Chuff :tongue:
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Visa has been granted!!!! :cool: :cool: Time to book flights and arrange shipping
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Fcuk off then :kiss:
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Lend us some cash and Ill go Saturday...you could drop me off at the airport....
Am going in work tomorrow and asking for them to make me redundant as they keep telling us we got no work!
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Fcuk off then :kiss:
You can really feel the love on here sometimes! :laugh:
Visa has been granted!!!! :cool: :cool: Time to book flights and arrange shipping
Great news! Moving along quite quick isn't it?! :cool:
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Yep 6 working days from company nomination to full visa! Was expecting 6 weeks at least :cool:
And dont mind Chuff he's just going to miss me once am gone :grin:
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well in mate :cool:
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Ace news! Good luck with it all
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Remember to set up and test Skype for your mum before you go.
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Flight to Perth booked for 29th January. 4 nights in Perth then train to Kalgoorlie.
Finished work yesterday took 2 days to pack up my tools. The pickup was a bit full :lipsrsealed:
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Now to start packing and sell off everything I'm not taking...
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:cool:
You still working up until then?
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sounds like a comet closing down sale advert :whistle: :whistle:
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No finished work due to we got nothing on so got a unofficial redunacy.. Am being paid till the end of the year.
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Yep chuff got ALOT of tat to sell
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:grin: shall come down on the 28th and get a big discount then :kiss:
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The joys of eBay.. Someone will buy it ...
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i know, :evil:
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great news mate, especially with work finishing you up early AND still paying you :afro:
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Just seen this on facebook Steve. Great oppourtunity mate, hope all goes well for you!!
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3 weeks today till I fly. Had a couple sleepless nights..but overall am looking forward to it.
It's a little warm over there
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Yo white ass gone burn!!!
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Got 6 bottles of factor 50 in my suitcase to tide me over for a week or two...
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Feck, just spotted this!... Congratulations!... However, does this mean you'll be leaving us too now and joining the Holden owners club!?
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:laugh: shaun just came crashing into 2013 :grin:
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:laugh: shaun just came crashing into 2013 :grin:
I bet there's already plenty of reference in this thread, :grin: didn't have time to read past the first couple of posts.
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Holden may be but more than likely a big 4x4..
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Holden may be but more than likely a big 4x4..
I believe they're into their Toyota's over there so.......
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2511/4111823511_4f3fd0ca13_z.jpg)
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:grin: :grin: he would need steps to get into that :whistle:
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:grin: :grin: he would need steps to get into that :whistle:
Ah.....
This one then. :whistle:
(http://omgpancakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/toyotafest2011_5.jpg?w=655&h=436)
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You can keep that bloody heat!
Steve in a few weeks
(http://chzderp.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hurr-durr-derp-face-im-melting-melting.jpg)
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Congrats steve not been around much but understanding the ozzi dollars now!
Good luck but what about that crimbo record :tongue:
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Cheers Jay :smiley:
Spent the last week or so cleaning and packing everything am taking over and had the crate delivered today
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12552_4211668765231_124758556_n.jpg)
loads of room left over.
I can now relax now :cool:
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dis shizz just got real :laugh: :grin:
remind us when ya flight is so we can all wave :whistle:
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Got enough room for the sneaks, or do you need my address?
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Surely you could fit the golf on there if you broke it down!
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Currently sat in Singapore airport awaiting my flight to Perth. Think I've had a few to many beers here I might be spewing on take off..... :grin: oh and it's 9:44pm and 20c out side beats heathrow!
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good skills buddy - get binned off ya flight :laugh:
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Am not that bad it's $16 a pint!! But am not the best of flyers... Haven't been on a plane for 10 years and just done. 13 hour one ..
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You lucky lucky b'stard!
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I think you'll find he's a luck shag actually:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/537309_4328508366148_1198051259_n.jpg)
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Haha nice bar that! Only $9 for a bottle of beer!
Been seeing the sights of Perth today in 36c sun. Loving it so far :cool:
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Well it is the middle of summer. :tongue:
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Yep and this is "cool" :grin: roll on the outback...it's even hotter...
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And texting people at 3am uk time :laugh:
Steve can't work out this 8 hour time different shizZ :whistle:
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Done my first day at work today. Had a fun 7 hours of site induction, only another 14 days of other inductions to go....
Anyone who thinks health and safety is bad in the Uk en come over here! It's on another level. :lipsrsealed:
I got to pass a alcohol breathalyzer test every morning and the reading has to be 0.000! :whistle:
Oh and it's was 39c today and I even saw a cloud, once..... :grin:
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:grin: no booze :laugh:
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:grin: no booze :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Thats gotta kill lol sorry dude!
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I can have a couple and a blow out in the weekends :cool:
And Friday afternoon we have a BBQ And beers at e workshop! :wink:
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And Friday afternoon we have a BBQ And beers at e workshop! :wink:
Genius Aussie logic - come in to work stone cold sober and get p*ssed. :grin:
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Yep, them drive home.....
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all the best for the future mate ,would love to do it
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And Friday afternoon we have a BBQ And beers at e workshop! :wink:
Genius Aussie logic - come in to work stone cold sober and get p*ssed. :grin:
was just thinking the same.. :grin:
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Been here almost a month now and loving it so far. Currently about 250km from the nearest house on a shutdown. Got another week away next week so be rolling in the $s.
Town am living in is a little simple, but so am I... :lipsrsealed: it's not for everyone but am fitting it.
Ill get some pics up once am back from the middle of nowhere.
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any jobs going? i make a mean cuppa tea...
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If you can do up nuts and bolts then you'll be fine over here, only problem is you need the certificates to get over.
Oh and the tea and coffee over here is f**king sh!t!!!
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If you can do up nuts and bolts then you'll be fine over here, only problem is you need the certificates to get over.
same problem here :laugh:
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If you can do up nuts and bolts then you'll be fine over here, only problem is you need the certificates to get over.
Oh and the tea and coffee over here is f**king sh!t!!!
Yea the tea is pootch!!
But iv been drinking hot milo!
Try it, it's soo good!
Which town are you in? I'm in brigadoon, on the hills!
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Bush fires today!! About 10 miles away from us! :lipsrsealed:
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Nice shot. 10miles is nowt with those ferocious b@stards though. :shocked:
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Yea the wind Is blowing away from us so that's good!!
Will have a drive to the view point about 3 miles down the hill in a bit!!
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Is that Bullsbrook? Seen it on the news, it's got a lot bigger now.
We got flood warnings here now! Had 200mm of rain last night and it hasn't stopped all day. Might not be able to make the 700km drive to Perth tomorrow :undecided: have to see what it's like and if my lift makes it home from a mine site.
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sounds just like home then mate :grin:
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Yeah it was bulls brook!
Looks like its all done now tbh! No smoke from this side of the hill!
Let me know about tomorow! :cool:
I ain't wait for it!
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The Irish are a bunch of thingys.....
Well am there tomorrow ill text you and meet up sometimeib the day.
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What's with the Irish!!
Yeah text me English number , see you soon!! Only highs of 33' today! Bit cold! :whistle:
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Works picked up now doing 607 days a week getting the $$$'s in :cool: Got a house sorted move in in 2 weeks.
Rents a little expensive but it will be worth it, heres a pic of the house.
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb74/kryptik_2010/84aslettdrive_zps5214f85c.jpeg)
And the view
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Heres a pic of the superpit, 6.5km's long, 2.5km's wide and 600m's deep with plans to double its size over the next 10 years!
You can see 6 200t dumper trucks!
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb74/kryptik_2010/DSCN0403_zps3d1c798b.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb74/kryptik_2010/DSCN0405_zps79a0f559.jpg)
The plant I work on
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Whats its all about, gold dust
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My Ford V8 ute :lipsrsealed:
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And one of the barmaids, this one is 'covered up' :whistle: :cool: :evil:
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Looks like you having a blast. You where not wrong when you said about the bars lol
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Works picked up now doing 607 days a week getting the $$$'s in :cool: Got a house sorted move in in 2 weeks.
Rents a little expensive but it will be worth it, heres a pic of the house.
607 days a week? that 600 more than any one else...
also cant see the pics cause im at home, but guessing the house is looking good, and i love utes, very jelous...
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House looks awesome, it's just what I'd love, except for the spiders, they're f**king big :grin:
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Meant 6-7 days :whistle:
House is awesome and as for the spiders I've yet to see any!!! People I work with have and I don't want to see any :lipsrsealed: Also haven't seen no wild kangaroos either, seen a dingo out in the bush and some emu's but that's it
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Any jobs going :laugh:
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Not for foreigners they don't like them.....I feel like a Romanian.....
The government is suspending the visa type I came over on due to jobs not going to Aussies.
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Looks amazing Steve!!
I saw a big red back in Ozzie and loads off roo's but they do live in the hills! :whistle:
I loved aus but not to live, but I think that was just the place I staid! And the mrs don't want to go!! :whistle:
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house looks :cool:,not jealous MUCH lol,enjoy
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I'll be in Perth in a week, done the whole east coast in 3 months also have no spiders excepts a f**king huge couple at the Whitsundays, golden orbs! Looks like your doing pretty good for your self!!
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Almost a year since I started this thread, boy times gone fast.
Works been up and down for the last few months and a lot of guys have left and gone back to the Uk, but its picking up for us now.
Got my old man flying in on Friday so booked off all of November and we're heading over east for the month. Visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns. Looking forward to it now but it anit bloody cheap over here!!
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Glad its going well Steve, why leave that bar for work. I would stay there forever :tongue:
Next time build your own house save the rent Looks good :smiley:
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yeah, on holiday and still fooking got time to annoy me at 8am on satdee morning with a monster hangover :laugh: :grin:
Glad it has all worked out mate, :afro: