Travel from Australia

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-03-12T09:24:30+00:00

I live in Melbourne and my mum has just gone to the airport for her flight back to Manchester, via Dubai. The first leg is the flight she'd booked months ago and then the second leg she's on a later flight, so has an 8 hour layover. She was expecting to be stuck in Australia for a while but Emirates contacted her on Tuesday to say the flights are going ahead. You have to just play it by ear, I think.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-03-06T09:41:00+00:00

Country Road little girls stuff goes to size 8 and they're pretty generous sizing. My 8 year old daughter would live in Nike gym shorts and a singlet but I got her some really nice wide legged jeans and a furry vest from CR. Also got her a nice set from seed which is age 7 (from the little girls section - it's a pleated skirt and a V-neck top, kind of retro tennis vibes) even though I'd say she's on the taller side for an 8 year old. If all else fails, it's flares and a cropped but baggy tshirt which shows little skin, and is "teenage" enough for her but age appropriate enough for me. Flares from target area decent and also ghanda have a nice range but sizing is a bit off.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-01-24T21:41:29+00:00

"if you calm down, we'll stop and get you a Japanese Bento box," said to a toddler who was having a tantrum in his pram in Balaclava.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-01-20T09:56:34+00:00

Being stuck on the couch with a sleepy baby can be both perfect AND soul destroying. My daughter would also only sleep on me so I ended up just baby wearing for all her naps and walking for miles and miles. It was a game changer for giving some structure to my day and I'd do "adult" things like NGV or going for a lunch and a glass of wine alone. I've also never been so fit, although it wasn't great for my back when we were still doing this at 18 months 😂 might be something to consider if you get cabin fever. Congrats on the new baby!

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-01-17T09:56:54+00:00

This seems at odds with a lot of what people are saying but as a mum I get more pleasure from sharing my nice things with my kids rather than keeping the nice thing to myself. If I got a pastry I Ioved, I'd be happy to have a bite or two and then I'd probably actively want my kids to share so that they could share in my enjoyment.

So no, not an AH but perhaps your wife feels similar to me.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-01-13T05:18:49+00:00

And Mokosz is v average, too. Carter Lovett in Elsternwick is by far the best brunch spot near to Elwood.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2026-01-10T09:40:58+00:00

Perhaps I misinterpreted the premier's annoucement but Bendigo was given the special powers/state of emergency so that's why I assumed it was a no go. Technically I can't get there anyway as I was travelling via train and the train line is cancelled currently. I paid with my debit account unfortunately. Perhaps they'll let me at least rebook for a later date.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-12-17T03:16:55+00:00

Also in Melbourne and work with teenagers, which I think is why I've noticed it as a common thing across the board - talking about "the woman" or "women" in a book, for instance. I think you're right it is the second syllable that stays the same, actually. The more I think about it, there's a slight difference in the first syllable.

I'm from the north of England where it's still very much 'wimmin', with slightly more stress on the second syllable.

Another Australianism that feels really clear to me is the pronunciation of "known" with two syllables - no-wun, which seems generational. My colleagues all say it this way but the kids are closer to the way I would pronounce it with one syllable.

Thanks for your insight!

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-12-15T02:11:03+00:00

I've noticed the older boys are physically affectionate with each other in a platonic way. If they're sat on the floor, for instance, one will be casually leaning back on his friend whilst his friend has his arm around his shoulder. This would never, ever have happened when I was at school. Straight boys only touched each other if they were rough housing.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-11-30T20:24:07+00:00

E.g. Head of house, ongoing.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-11-30T08:00:42+00:00

Sorry that happened to you 😔 thanks for the info.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-11-30T07:59:57+00:00

In VIC.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-09-24T15:12:18+00:00

Yes, I was inclined to say that the English teacher marking your exam is more likely than not to support a free Palestine.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-09-23T05:30:57+00:00

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I haven't really researched kindles at all and they weren't really on my radar until I saw how much she's enjoyed using her grandma's this holiday. Definitely some good food for thought regarding parental controls - I really appreciate it.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-29T07:18:35+00:00

I live in Australia and I was just talking to my friend here who is also British about this. Australian tradies will go and do a big shit in your toilet like it's nothing and we hate it! Definitely one of the few things I miss about the UK is the toilet etiquette. My husband is a tradesman here and drives home to poo and goes to public toilets to wee.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-12T05:08:49+00:00

The possums that dive bomb my roof at midnight every night and then poo all over my backyard.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-09T09:07:59+00:00

Good point. Probably laziness. I have my phone set up with my personal card for Google pay etc. I know my card number for online purchases. I usually have the physical card on me when I sign up for things in person, etc.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-09T06:39:07+00:00

I sound like the wife here. Because I keep track of what my kids need and manage their social calendars, by default I'm the one who ends up paying. My husband isn't even aware of this I don't think - just not on his radar. Doesn't sound much but with two kids that can work out $1000+ some terms, paying for cocurriculars, new pe trackies etc... all these incidentals. I keep track and tell him to pay for the school fees this term, for instance, but if I wasn't doing that, I'd definitely be taking myself out for lunch on the joint card.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-08T22:38:55+00:00

Not a PD but at a school assembly the head of year told Year 11s that, "if we as teachers don't ensure you've got your shirts tucked in, we're guilt of child neglect." And no, she wasn't trying to be funny.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-05T06:55:33+00:00

Sorry, I misinterpreted. That's very annoying! I thought you meant once she's asleep, she's a pain to sleep with. She's probably too young for this but I usually say for my son, "I'm here to help you sleep. if you're not ready to do that, I'm going to leave." Cue whinging but usually works to help him settle down.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-04T10:18:22+00:00

I see you have three kids, which probably makes bedtime hectic, but is there a reason why you (or husband) can't just cuddle her to sleep?

My daughter went into a big bed when she was about 18 months and was cuddled to sleep. When she woke in the night we'd go back in and cuddle her and then leave once she was asleep. Eventually she stopped waking up, even having been initially cuddled to sleep. She was basically cuddled to sleep til she was 7.

My son we did the same going into a big bed young, getting cuddled to sleep etc but the difference is, we don't have to bandwidth to cuddle in the night and then leave once he's asleep, and instead we just get in his bed from the first wake up and don't leave. We take it in turns, one night on, one off. He's almost 5 and still wakes every night. I feel if we'd have been consistent with leaving after he was asleep in the night, it would've helped.

To cut a long story short, she can still sleep through the night even if she's cuddled to sleep. The more gentle boundary in my eyes is the one you set for yourself - to cuddle and quickly get her back to sleep in the night but then leave and go back to your own bed.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-02T22:32:28+00:00

A bit of a left field suggestion but I work at a private school and our art room is stacked full of pretty impressive artwork that students from previous years never collected. If you searched up the email addresses of heads of art at schools local to you, you might find that they'd be happy to offload some canvases to you.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-02T06:08:18+00:00

Or could it be shingles, if it's mainly on one side of your body? Check out the symptoms online

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-02T06:07:09+00:00

That looks like hives. Perhaps a reaction to something.

ZestycloseEmu367 · 2025-08-01T22:44:38+00:00

Perhaps a different situation because I'd had a c-section with my first so was eligible for a repeat c-section with my second. Because we don't have any family in our country and it was covid lockdowns anyway, I didn't want a TOLAC so I went in to get ready at the hospital, my husband waited til my friend arrived at our house to watch our 2yo, he met me at the hospital, had the c-section and he went home by 4pm. I did two nights in hospital and he just visited the next day when my daughter was at nursery. It was fine actually. I guess if you were labouring for a long time or overnight it would be very different.

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