Category Archives: Making a Home in Sydney

Technical Bitch

Aaahhhh sweet, succulent, sparkling DSL... soooooo good :) Now the bitch: At last, after 5 months of phone calls to Optus, Telstra, the TIO, the ACCC - round and round - trying to get Telstra to stop their anti-competitive behaviour and repair our pair gain telephone line without extorting us to sign up with them ...

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Settling in in Sydney

Okay so it's taken me a while and it's been a little hard but I think I'm finally settling in. Having to go back and forth for the first month didn't help but the thing which has at last cracked it is finding a decent (in fact better than decent) butcher and green grocer. Seriously ...

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2bed, 2bath, 2 happy Ruschenas :)

At the risk of this blog becoming a self indulgent diary (all blogs are self indulgent, no getting away from that, but a diary is not what this was supposed to be) I am happy to report that the Sydney trip was hugely successful. We found ourselves a perfect apartment with every feature we wanted ...

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