Life in Australia

The Scariest Story You Have Ever Heard!

17 August 2011 Life in Australia

This really will be the most frightening story you have ever heard. But, for it to qualify as frightening for you, you have to be either: a) Currently living here in Australia as a Permanent Resident (PR) or…. b) Hoping to move here soon as a Permanent Resident. If either of these applies to you, [...]

Living in Australia: Our Third Full Year

1 August 2011 Life in Australia

I launched this blog on 1 January 2009 with a post and video called Our First Full Year Living In Australia. Unsurprisingly, the video was about our first full year living in Australia, which would have been the calendar year 2008. I followed that up on 4 January 2010 with another post and video, this [...]

Rush Hour Traffic in Brisbane

25 July 2011 Life in Australia

On Friday, 2 October 2009, I got into my car at five o’clock to drive home. As it was five o’clock, and as it was a Friday, I was pretty sure it qualified for rush hour. So I stuck a camera to the windscreen of my car and decided to make a video of it. [...]

Tribute to Baggy: Top Chocolate Lab

24 June 2011 Life in Australia

Baggy: 23rd of December 1997 – 24th of June 2011 When we moved to Australia in November 2007, he was the first to arrive having flown three weeks ahead of us to begin his stint in quarantine. Some of you will have read the ‘horror story’ of when we picked him up from Brisbane airport [...]

Does the Fun of Living in Australia Wear Off?

15 June 2011 Life in Australia

I wrote about the concept of the “three-year itch” about six months ago in my post called Moving to Australia and Missing England. Well, I say “wrote”, but it was more of a video post. But when I decided to cover the same subject for a recent Australia and New Zealand magazine article, I couldn’t [...]

It’s Great to Be a Queen

13 June 2011 Life in Australia

We’ve got a day off today for the Queen’s Birthday. Have you? But, of course, it’s not HRH’s big day today. Last year I did a post about the Queen’s Birthday and I asked the question… ‘I’m not sure how old she is today, or even if today is her actual birthday. After all, nobody [...]

The First Ever Post on BobinOz

3 June 2011 Life in Australia

Regular readers will notice that today the blog looks a little different. For those who are not regulars, this is what it looked like before. This was the blog… And this was the website….. When I first launched on January 1, 2009, I had no idea where it would end up. I probably still don’t. [...]

State Education in Australia: Year 2 Homework

1 June 2011 Life in Australia

Just over a year ago, in a half term report about Elizabeth’s schooling, I revealed her excitement at being ‘allowed’ to do homework. I thought it would be a novelty that would wear off, but she is still as enthusiastic today about doing her homework as she was when she first got it. And although [...]

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I'm BobinOz and I moved to Australia in November 2007 after living in England for a very long time. Why did I move and what's it like here? All this and more answered right here at Bobinoz. Click here to read more on my about me page.