We are moving to Tassie

[MarknDeb]

To all the Tasmanian members we are going to join you all down there soon, i have been offered a position with the Launceston Council, its fantastic news for us and we all cant wait to get down there. Deb and i are flying down tommorrow (Fri) and will be doing stuff with the council then Sat looking at houses, it should be fun :D

[Ausfree]

From phew!! its too hot to Brrrr!!!:o:) good luck with the job!!

[weeds]

good stuff.......a tad on the chilly side for me but great place to holiday

[Cap]

Congrats on the move!! Will be good to catch up again for more trips... except we southerners will have to come up north (as I want to anyways) and do the tracks there ;)

[TerryO]

If anyone thinks Tassie is cold then don't move to Goulburn in winter. :(

And if anyone thinks Brisbane is hot then don't move to Goulburn in summer. :eek:

Congratulations on moving to Tassie it is just about at the top of my list of the best places to live anywhere.

cheers,
Terry

[MarknDeb]

Thanks for the best wishs.

Yep sure will be cold but hey no more heat in summer, bloody dream come true ;) g i will be able to do some real fishing and no guppies to be the only thing to catch, i will even be able to learn fresh water fishing.

[Piddler]

temp 0 in Launny of a morning this week
15 during the day

[Cap]

temp 0 in Launny of a morning this week
15 during the day

15 during the day!! You got a heat wave there have you?? :angel:

[timaus13]

Great news Congratulations on the Job.
Safe move and look forward to catching up.
Stooge and I must get together and organise a trip as soon as you are settled.

Cheers

Gadgets AKA Tim:D

[austastar]

Hi and welcome,
you will soon start to think "must check the oil and tyres" for a 200km journey.
It's a Tasmanian thing.

cheers

[bingrames]

Congratulations & good luck with the move, we spend 2 weeks down there in 02 for our Honeymoon and we both loved it. I would love to get a staff transfer down there aswell great place, Good luck & Enjoy.:)

[tasi devil]

Welcome to Tassie, there are a few AULRO members in Lonnie and surrounds

.............tasi

[MarknDeb]

A bit cool this morning but the house hunt starts in a 15 mins, YIPEEEEEEE, we are looking in Riverside to Hadspen in a Nisan Micra god they are a crap car, :D hard to make it up a hill at a 110 :eek:

[tasi devil]

wind can be a problem on any exposed areas on the West Tamar, particularly upper Cormiston Rd and Freshwater Point at Legana.
happy house hunting

............tasi

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Good luck with it all Mark,,:D
and remember-
THE most important thing about buying houses in Tassi,,


How big is the heater?:ohyes:

[banjo]

Apparently its very cold down there thismorning..

[MarknDeb]

Yep sure was cold, had about a mil of ice over the car :eek: havent seen that before but it wasnt really that cold well it didnt feal that bad, just been wearing jeans , t-shirt with a jumper all day.

Well we signed a contract today on a lovely house in Hadspen, it will be around a 20min drive to work so thats pretty good considering Hadspen is in the country, oh we finaly found out what a heat pump is, LOL its a bloody reverse cycle AC if anyone else has wondered what it is there you are [biggrin].

Thanks Pedro, yep mate the house has a heat pump :angel: and wall heater and a fire place ;)

[Cap]

Yep sure was cold, had about a mil of ice over the car :eek: havent seen that before but it wasnt really that cold well it didnt feal that bad, just been wearing jeans , t-shirt with a jumper all day.


Well see there ya go, already a tasweigian... youll be suprised how many people wear just t-shirts and jeans in mid winter :eek:

[korg20000bc]

Hadspen's a nice little commute to Launceston. Only about 10 mins away from where I live in Longford.
Still, prepare yourself for 40+ in Summer and the sun burning you faster than anywhere else I've been.

Good on you. What vehicle should I keep an eye out for?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

http://www.hadspen.com/entallypic.jpg Welcome to Hadspen.com

Hadspen is an attractive, small historic town located 18km from the City of Launceston, and situated on the banks of the South Esk River.

Perfect for those who prefer the quiet life, yet want the convenience of the City only 20 minutes drive away, Hadspen is the ideal place to settle down and raise your family, or to take the whole tribe on a holiday.

At Hadspen you will find -


A Holiday Resort, a Retirement Village, a bottle shop, tavern and a Caravan Park
A supermarket, stocking many grocery and hardware lines, hot take-away food and petrol
A Newsagency, which includes a giftshop and Australia Post Outlet
Hairdressing Salon
Parks, BBQ facilities, public toilets, riverbank walking tracks, cricket nets, a cricket oval and a multi-purpose tennis court
Plenty of accessible fishing spots on the riverbank
Entally House and The Red Feather Inn, both with a rich colonial history.

A chemist, a Doctors Surgery, a large Woolworths Supermarket, and the Country Club Casino are all located at nearby Prospect, only 5 minutes drive away.

With all this convenience right at your door step, why would you ever want to leave?






sounds Great!!;):cool::cool:

[MarknDeb]

Hadspen's a nice little commute to Launceston. Only about 10 mins away from where I live in Longford.
Still, prepare yourself for 40+ in Summer and the sun burning you faster than anywhere else I've been.

Good on you. What vehicle should I keep an eye out for?

Thankyou, 40+ down here will be nice after 40+ and 99% humidity, just have to keep an eye on our fluids because we wont notice drying out.

We have a 03 D2 white TD5, the spare wheel cover has Spinifex Caravans OFF ROAD on it, Deb usualy drive her around and i just replaced my SIII SWB with a Hyundai Elantra :(, they will have QLD rego on them for a little while

[MarknDeb]

Hey Pedro i see on the info at the top mate no girly tunnels there hmmmm i seem to remember reading a sign driving out to Hampton a sign stating the "Toowoomba bypass tunnel here":p

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Thats Politicians speak for----



"In Toowoomba's Dreams!"

[tasi devil]

Hadspen's a nice little commute to Launceston. Only about 10 mins away from where I live in Longford.
Still, prepare yourself for 40+ in Summer and the sun burning you faster than anywhere else I've been.

Good on you. What vehicle should I keep an eye out for?

40+ geez settle down cobber :), Longford is a lovely spot just didn't realize it was that much closer to the sun than Lonnie :angel::D
your right about the sun burning tho, SPF 15+ should be a minimum.
and yeh what's the vehicle ?

..............tasi

[agrojnr]

My folks live in Invermay and so will we come Jan next year.

If your after meat go to Longford meat works my old man can't speak highly enough of them.

Good Luck

Adam

[d3syd]

My folks live in Invermay and so will we come Jan next year.

If your after meat go to Longford meat works my old man can't speak highly enough of them.

Good Luck

Adam

I can vouch for that. This butcher shop is actually located at the abattoir and is their retail outlet. You don't see many butcher shops where you see truck loads of livestock driving through the front gate. Couldn't be any fresher.

[p38arover]

To all the Tasmanian members we are going to join you all down there soon, i have been offered a position with the Launceston Council,

Phoenix lives in Launceston. I think he works for one of the Councils down there.

[MarknDeb]

Thanks for the heads up on the meat and i have just told Deb about it, i love some good meat.

Thanks Ron ill try and look a few people up i think ;)

[korg20000bc]

40+ geez settle down cobber :), Longford is a lovely spot just didn't realize it was that much closer to the sun than Lonnie :angel::D
your right about the sun burning tho, SPF 15+ should be a minimum.
and yeh what's the vehicle ?

..............tasi

The last 2 years we have had consecutive days of 40+. I hated it. Think I'm telling porkies?

[MarknDeb]

Those temps will be great compaired to whats up here, we are still waiting for the bank to give the nod on getting the house, they certainly like to make you hang out

[MarknDeb]

OK all was finalised today with the bank so hand over on the house is 30th June, we will be departing Brisbane on the 2nd July and will take a few days to get down, our things will not arrive untill the 9th then i start work with the Launceston Council on the 15th, its going to be a very interesting month ;)

[agrojnr]

OK all was finalised today with the bank so hand over on the house is 30th June, we will be departing Brisbane on the 2nd July and will take a few days to get down, our things will not arrive untill the 9th then i start work with the Launceston Council on the 15th, its going to be a very interesting month ;)

Thats great news hope it all goes well for you both and I will see you some time early next year when I finally get there

Adam

[Jock The Rock]

Hey mate

Good on you :)

Be good to catch up with you when you get down, I know of two nice little SWB Series vehicles down this way if your interested in a real car again :p

Catcha sometime

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Looking forward to the next installment:cool:

[Slunnie]

temp 0 in Launny of a morning this week
15 during the day
Toasty!

Orange NSW is:
Today 1 to 8 and currently at 6.4 degrees.
Tomorrow is -4 to 10 with frost.
Mon -2 to 11 with frost
Tues 0 to 10 with showers
Wed 0 to 12 with clouds
Thurs 4 to 10 with rain
Fri 3 to 10 with rain.

[richard4u2]

The last 2 years we have had consecutive days of 40+. I hated it. Think I'm telling porkies?
40f :angel:

[MarknDeb]

Thanks for all the best wish's its great and iam really looking forward to a great new life and a lot less stress ;)

[MarknDeb]

Yeah we are here at last, the first container arrived yesterday with all our needed stuff and the house is starting to get that home feal about it, HA Deb is the one that loves the cold and she hasnt turned the heat pump off since we got here Thursday morning :confused: and i wanted to turn it off yesterday but she said no, LOL. Everything has gone really well untill last yesterday, i ended up having to run into Lonnie and the Telstra shop in regard to the TBox Bundle (phone & internet package), it turned out i got the TBox at the shop but to recieve the modem i have to wait 5 to 10 work days for it to be posted :confused::confused: if i want the same thing from the store i had to pay $99 :confused::confused: how the hell they work that out i have no idea, any way last night Anthony got to have a nice and warm to hot shower then Alexandra went for hers and no hot left so now it looks like the hot water has **** it self :mad: so we will have to arrange for a plumber in today to change it over well fingers crossed we will get one.

We are going to go for a run to Longford to the butcher that was recomended today at some stage when we can get out.

[frantic]

Two quick suggestions:
If your hot water system is gas go and have a look under it as the previous owner may have turnt it down for summer so you can just turn the flame up.
Have a look around the hot water tank, if it's leaking its buggered, try calling a few plumbers but also give a few of the big suppliers(harvey norman gave us the best deal) a ring. We got our hot water system replaced in december and only last week did I have to go out and turn it up as the hot water was running out to quick.
Hope telstra gave you a good deal on the net/phone bundle, I am with iinet on the BoB set up which is pretty good once you get it set up.

[MarknDeb]

Thanks for the suggestions, we have electric hot water and the previous owner helped out on this one, it was a blown 16A fuse and the fuse wire in the box is not the rite amperage so if i replace it, it blows so i pinched the 16A fuse/circut braker from the wall oven and it hasnt tripped yet, so fingers crossed thats all the problem is.

Yes mate the Telstra deal isnt bad, we got the $109 bundle and that gives 25GB internet, The TBox, unlimited free local calls and untimed $1 STD called so for us and what we need it is very good value

[The ho har's]

great to see everythng is sorting itself out:D

BTW you need to change your location now;)

Mrs hh:angel:

[tas130]

Welcome to tassie. we made the move 5 years ago and still think its the best move we ever did.
when you make it down this way if you want to have an explore just call out. you will find there are plenty of us down here happy to show you around or point you in the right direction.

[korg20000bc]

I'll keep an eye out for you. What did you think of the Meatworks?

[MarknDeb]

Well we went to the meat works and got a lot of meat as the prices are very good, we had some marinated red wine and garlic rump for dinner last night, it was very tender, so we shall be going back again.

We went in today to find out about changing the regos over and we have to take both cars in to get roadworthy's done so i will have to book them in next week, they gave alist of places and there is a couple in Prospect, just up the road from us.

[korg20000bc]

Big Al in Perth is the bloke to go to. He's excellent.

[MarknDeb]

Gday all, well we are settling in nicely, the kids are enjoying schools Debs enjoying the house and iam actually enjoying my job, the guys i work with are great, we love how friendly the place is OH and to the mainlanders i couldnt believe it when i started to hear the most comon welcome here, LOL its "Gday COB" or "hey Cobber" i had not heard this saying since i was a kid and its great. I have met a couple of LR owners that come into the Remount waste station so if any of you are they, HEY COBBER :D.

[circlework]

Hi and welcome Cob.


*snip* and to the mainlanders i couldnt believe it when i started to hear the most comon welcome here, LOL its "Gday COB" or "hey Cobber" i had not heard this saying since i was a kid and its great. I have met a couple of LR owners that come into the Remount waste station so if any of you are they, HEY COBBER :D.

See, a month here and your already a Tazwegian...... calling Australians, 'mainlanders'. :twisted:

Like 'TerryO' said........ If anyone thinks Tassie is cold then don't move to Goulburn in winter. And if anyone thinks Brisbane is hot then don't move to Goulburn in summer.

And if you think I came from Goulburn, then you're correct .... and yes, I wear a T shirt in winter. It's actually warmer in winter here in the North West of the state than most parts of the Great Divide up in Australia. The last five years, we have not exceeded a few days of 32*C each summer, except in 2008 when it hit 42*C and then 36*C for about 3 days and in winter, a couple of nights at -2*C.


Hope to catch up some day MarknDeb.
Cheers,
Daryl.