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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:07 pm
by DNgroundworks
Monday will see me making a start in winding things up, going to accountant to sort out the books, moving out of premises, P45'S etc etc
Just gotta hang on doing somthing till June, then im going Aus!
Have a mate out there driving machines, he reckons theres plenty of work putting in irrigation systems, Drainage, pipelines things like that, he freelances, travelling from one farm to the next, sounds like he has an amazing time to boot:D
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:25 pm
by henpecked
Lucky sod!
I used to think al the people who left the UK over the last 3 years would live to regret it.
I'm glad I wasn't holding my breath.
Hp
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:32 pm
by DNgroundworks
Why did you used to think that HP?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:43 pm
by henpecked
Ive got a bro in the Copsta Del Sol. Hes been there 25 years. Made a business from buying and selling furniture.
Generally, Mr + Mrs Smith would flog their home, invest in a bar and go tits in the space of 12-18 months. He would then sell the recovered furniture to the next Mr + Mrs Smith :p
I always had a smug sense of satiation that I lived in good old reliable Blighty.
Not no more though.
Place is going more to the dogs every year. I think, as with the banks, we are further down the s***tube than the Government would like us to know or think.
Best of luck to ya cobba!
Hp
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:55 pm
by Tommy
Still waiting on new boots, but had some shiny new peltor ear defenders that cost £9.50
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:48 pm
by henpecked
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:28 pm
by rab1
DN groundworks, sorry to hear that mate.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:04 pm
by DNgroundworks
Ahh no worries, at least ive had a do eh? Its not like ive any dependants or anything like that anyway - ive got free reign to do as i please.
Sods law - got a job in this morning, new drive way for a fella, gonna do it on me tod make it last a while!
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:16 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Dan you off to Aus for good or just a year etc, me and the ex looked into with my computer degree i could get sponsored as their after unix programers. so got the necessary points etc.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:23 pm
by DNgroundworks
Well im going for 3 weeks either in december or early next year just to see if i like the place and to get my bearings, and then if all is ok ill be going for at least a year i should think.
Did you get my Email GB?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:44 pm
by rab1
spent time in oz, to be honest prefered nz. to be honest do it, wish i did, at the time they were kissing your hand looking for skilled tradesmem when i was there in 03. oz is the only place i`ve ever been where you buy a carryout and the the man says: heres your roadie, a beer for the drive home 
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:02 pm
by DNgroundworks
Aye it all sounds good, ive not heard anyone say a bad thing about the place, Another massive difference is what they do for fun over there, here people my age just live for the beer but my mate over there goes quadbiking in the mountains or scuba diving and these are just a normal way of spending a weekend, rather than spending it hungover here - food for thought i think.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:12 pm
by msh paving
My mate has just gone over there on the gold coast,his bird had a degree so she got work visa he was not allowed to work till he got sponsered he's a chippy,shutter chippy,but has found a job on a tunnel in brisbane they gave him a 2 year visa on that MSH 
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:28 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i met a lovelly blond australian doctor in berlin called teresa i can only speak very highly of australians haha :laugh:
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:01 pm
by henpecked
DNgroundworks wrote:Well im going for 3 weeks either in december or early next year just to see if i like the place and to get my bearings, and then if all is ok ill be going for at least a year i should think.
Me and the missus did the points thing about 2 years ago. We passes just on her qualifications alone. We were going to live in Perth
Then we though we'd invest in a bigger home, cause the kids had just gone to big school, just before it went tits up 
We made enough on the old place, as we sold in a rising market,so it didnt work out too bad.
Cest la vie.
Hp