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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 0:32:34 GMT -1
Poor Guy hope his face heals up ok. Looks like we may be getting another migrant. We find when European ladies come out on a visit they tend to stay. One of may friend was followed home (NZ) by a Swiss Miss. She was told she would be deported unless she applied for permanent residents visa and to get that best (only) way was to get married (cupid has many wiles) They are still married after 40 years Yeah we do tend to travel a bit. Distance doesnt mean much to us. Everything is time, 24 hours to fly to Europe 24 hours hard drive from here to Cairns. Time spent is same That mate of mine is a Kiwi and I met him in UK. He was working for MoW in London I thought he was a stuck up pom with pinstripe suit rolled brolly and bowler. Typical bloody public servant. As he was our client he allowed me to buy him lunch. At one such lunch he dropped "at home". To make conversation I asked where "home" was expecting somewhere posh he said "Auckland NZ" I was astounded " I yelled" I know where .it bloody is Im from Brisbane" He thought by my accent I was a Jock with a classy education. After that we got on great . His pinstripe suit brolly and bowler hat was his way of taking the piss outa the Poms. (The brolly had been nicked in a pub and the bowler bought at a market for 5/- the suit he paid for) We met again in NZ, in fact he took over my job in Auckland when I left, he had tried to emigrate from UK to OZ on the £10 passage when he decided it was time to come home but couldnt get over problem of not having a Brit Birth Certificate. Yes he was born in Devonport (didnt mention Devonport Auckland) yes he was qualified spouted his Brit qualifications (didnt mention they were reciprocal with his Kiwi one and thats how he got it) . Everything went well all organised no problems but the Birth Certificate buggered things up.... The horrible truth came out he was a Kiwi!!! (shock horror) The migration officer just looked at him then roared with laughter. Said it had been tried before but no one had ever got that far before. He hitch hiked from UK to South Africa and then across Australia. If he got into any trouble in UK he was an Australian I was an honorary Kiwi when we , the All Blacks, beat Scotland 44-0 at Murrayfield PS I dont think the kids nowadays had anywhere near the fun we had. They seem to take things including their fun much too seriously or am I just getting old? That certain young lady's planning on staying awhile, yes, got herself a working visa. And if she's any sense, she'll stay. You're so right about the distance thing. We forget that Aussies are used to driving hundreds, nay thousands of miles-- where we Euro-wooses'd aye blanch at the 'time lost' and take the plane. To be honest, I'd never quite appreciated the sheer scale of Australia till I flew Perth to Sydney and on various interior 'short routes' Mel, Adelaide, Brizzy. You don't quite take in how huge it is or how the majority of settlements are on the coasts till you actually see it for yourself. A Jock with a classy education? You?.........shirley not Re our kids. Well, no, I don't think they DO have the relative freedoms we had. I'm not very sure why, really. I'm not convinced that the world actually IS any more dangerous than it was when we were younger, but I do think maybe our perception is that it is. We're all of an age here, I think, and I guess we'll all remember as kids playing outside all day, walking to school unaccompanied, and just going about our later lives as teens without being dropped/picked up every time we left the house. Mr Rolo left home sometime in the late 70s heading off on some trip or other, busked it through Europe, making his way months later to Afghanistan and India. Also recall in my late teens I went AWOL with pals, going on holidays, firing to rock concerts in England on a whim and just generally rocketing about the place without feeling burdened by constant fear of impending doom or the need to check in with parents every few hours...from a public telephone I'd say though, I think the vast majority of young folks I'm in daily contact with are far wiser and WAY more considerate than we were. Maybe because they know we're only a text, Facetime or a Tweet away from any help they need. Got to keep a balance though between keeping in touch and doing the 'helicopter parenting' thing. I just don't *get* parents who track their kids lives via FB, that's just strange.
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Post by ozneil on Dec 27, 2014 5:33:21 GMT -1
rolo rote
Well he was a Kiwi after all whadya expect?? Besides by that time my accent was basically Strine with an overlay of Lallands and Kelvinsaide delivered in slow drawl.
I thought his was SE England snooty. Besides his vowels werent as flat as he had been taught.
I used to get kids from UK here on a Youth Visa looking for work . Part of their qualification requirements was 6 months practical in an approved office. Coz of my UK qualifications my office was approved.. We took on some. About 1/2 asked us to sponsor them for permanent residence.
Lots of our kids still take off for UK for the "gap Year" as you know .
In my day before EU all I needed was a passport to enter UK and vice versa. None of this visa nonsense. I see some UK pollie is trying to negotiate a deal with us to enable free passage without visas.... He'll be lucky.
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Post by ozneil on Dec 27, 2014 20:40:21 GMT -1
talking about Aussies and travel bug.
One of my clients was a large law firm whose partners decided to buy a large motor home to share for their holidays. Big deal I hear you say but the rub is they bought it in US. The partners and their families take turns of using it . They pick it up where the last guy dropped it off and drive where they fancy and in turn drop it off when holiday is finished at a suitable place. They have done some sort of deal with the manufacturer to have it stored when not in use at one of their dealers.
Makes our little 3 month sojourn in Europe pale into insignificance. Our Motorhome/van (Talbot Excalibur) had Oz flags fore and aft and we were surprised by the number of fellow countrymen we met on the road in the most unusual places like the smithy at Gretna, a caravan park at Durness and the top of a windmill on the Norfolk Broads. The young couple at (or is it in/on?) the windmill were living in Yeovil but their home was Nowra (NSW). They were leaving when penny dropped! Nowra!!! a big naval airbase and Yeovil is where they make our navy helicopters so I yelled over balcony to him "Navy" and got a grin and wave in acknowledgement.
On the other hand a story of 2 Scots in PNG . I cant vouch for the veracity.. It was a Weegie that told me
Young guy was backpacking up a muddy track in pouring rain. Its pointless wearing a raincoat there it only makes you hotter so he was in his shirt actually a Celtic strip when he heard the whine of a landrover in low gear struggling up the track behind him as it passed him he stuck out his thumb to get a lift. The landie went about another 50 yards up the track stopped and went into reverse as it drew close a red headed guy stuck his head out the window and yelled "Mick bastard" slammed the Landie in to gear and took off in a spray of mud.
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Post by notanimby on Dec 28, 2014 9:27:29 GMT -1
talking about Aussies and travel bug. One of my clients was a large law firm whose partners decided to buy a large motor home to share for their holidays. Big deal I hear you say but the rub is they bought it in US. The partners and their families take turns of using it . They pick it up where the last guy dropped it off and drive where they fancy and in turn drop it off when holiday is finished at a suitable place. They have done some sort of deal with the manufacturer to have it stored when not in use at one of their dealers. Makes our little 3 month sojourn in Europe pale into insignificance. Our Motorhome/van (Talbot Excalibur) had Oz flags fore and aft and we were surprised by the number of fellow countrymen we met on the road in the most unusual places like the smithy at Gretna, a caravan park at Durness and the top of a windmill on the Norfolk Broads. The young couple at (or is it in/on?) the windmill were living in Yeovil but their home was Nowra (NSW). They were leaving when penny dropped! Nowra!!! a big naval airbase and Yeovil is where they make our navy helicopters so I yelled over balcony to him "Navy" and got a grin and wave in acknowledgement. On the other hand a story of 2 Scots in PNG . I cant vouch for the veracity.. It was a Weegie that told me Young guy was backpacking up a muddy track in pouring rain. Its pointless wearing a raincoat there it only makes you hotter so he was in his shirt actually a Celtic strip when he heard the whine of a landrover in low gear struggling up the track behind him as it passed him he stuck out his thumb to get a lift. The landie went about another 50 yards up the track stopped and went into reverse as it drew close a red headed guy stuck his head out the window and yelled "Mick bastard" slammed the Landie in to gear and took off in a spray of mud. To be pedantic, its not a Celtic strip but a sellick tap.........
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 19:54:30 GMT -1
That'll be the boy on the email this week, heading back over for T in the Park in July. He's been saving all his term time earnings to come back over again. Bless. Sorta knew the keys I cut for him last year wouldn't be too long on their peg
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Post by ozneil on May 5, 2015 21:51:00 GMT -1
mmm Cherchez la femme .... The one he overstayed for? ??
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