Waking up in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Took Caledonian Sleeper London to Glasgow & apparently we get a full refund due to a 2 hour delay 😳

Hope all my financial transactions over the next few months share this vibe!

#movingtoscotland #aussieinscotland #librarianlife #westernisles

Wild

😂 😳

How’s your morning? 🤪

Moving to Scotland in 3 days!

*& trying to buy a house before I go because rentals don’t exist & cost of airbnb for 6 weeks would more than pay for a car - which I also need to buy & all the owners want top dollar for their damp, worm infested properties

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

Hands up if you’re part of the generation which had to dye some of your school homework with tea and singe the edges.

Let the housing stress begin as I try to find term accommodation in Lewis for June and July 😭

✅ Visa approved
✅ Passport returned
✅ Flights booked
✅ Pet koala packed

And we’re moving to the Western Isles ✈️

#aussieinscotland #librarylife

Cries in “waiting for visa”

First quote in for moving this goofy face from Queensland to the Western Isles 😬

$6500 🪦

Reading counts! 📚

Never not thinking about this old thread 🙃

Celebrating visa and biometrics submission at Little Red Dumpling.

Significantly poorer but the countdown is on ✈️

#Scotland
#WesternIsles
#anewlifeoutofthesun
#LibraryLife
#AussieInScotland

See also: Parent Council/P&C Association 😏

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.

First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.

Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

Ireland (6.5m people)announces £21 million to provide 11 new libraries and 12 new mobiles. Scale that up *ten times* to get an idea of how that would compare to the UK (67m people) if we did the same thing. (Nearest thing we have is LIF funding at £10.5m) independent.ie/regionals/lout…

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😊 (Finally) received my CoS from my employer so I can apply for my visa
😡 Have to pay NHS surcharge upfront: £5175.

On top of the visa fee (around £1000), moving across the world (shipping, flights, initial accom, buy a house, furniture, car…)

Lucky the weather is worth it