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Latest post on 31 December 2017 - 21:42
Lol. Chatting to my partner tonight (who I met on an expat forum) about this one and tried to find some of my old posts, but nothing!!
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Latest post on 08 January 2012 - 11:45
Silver cuff links hand crafted with the guys name in Arabic. They're really nice, there used to be a stall at Ibn Battuta that made them, don't know if it's still there but pretty sure most malls or the Gold & Diamond park with have someone that makes them.
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Latest post on 24 October 2011 - 16:23
Ah, DD, you are American. That explains it. We Americans are the only ones who seem to think our home country is much, much better than Dubai. Erm....No Dubai, in many respects, is cheaper than Australia but you would be hard pressed to find an Aussie who says that Dubai is 'better'. Maybe Aussies are able to adapt more easily ( and whinge less ;) ) Seconded
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 07:59
Make sure you check the catchment of the school thoroughly, don't just assume if you live in a suburb you are in the catchment for it's local school. Some catchments may be outside of the suburb you live in. Last time I was in Perth we rented in Como and my assumption was that our catchment state school would be South Perth or Como Primary, it wasn't. My daughters both initially got places at a Catholic school in South Perth and my son didn't and neither South Perth or Como had any room for him which meant him going to a school we were unsure about. Turned out the Catholic school got permission from Catholic Ed for an extra child in his class so it all turned out in the end. If he had gone to the local state school he would have had to repeat Year 1 due to the strict age guidelines, but Catholic Ed were fine with him going into Year 2.
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Latest post on 06 September 2011 - 15:58
Here is a site that will help you calculate the School Year your daughter will be going into next year http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/ece/calculator.html. If your daughter is 5 now, she won't be eligible to start Year 1 (the first compulsory year of schooling in WA) until 2012 or 2013, depending on whether she turns 6 before or after 30 June 2012. Therefore your catchment school (the government school that must give you a place if you live within the "catchment") does not have to give you a place until your daughter is eligible for Year 1. Catholic and Independent Private schools will sometimes offer some concession with age depending on the child but you have to strike it lucky. I wouldn't worry too much about her having time off at 5 if you're sending her to school in Western Australia because she won't be falling behind. Maybe just get her into a part time pre-school / kindy group if you can and take her to some other activities if you feel she needs stimulation. Good luck.
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Latest post on 28 August 2011 - 15:38
Today it has been confirmed that bones found at the search site are those of Daniel. The Morcombe family can now lay their son and brother to rest and see justice come to the perpetrator/s of this crime.
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Latest post on 14 August 2011 - 18:04
The State's leading forensic pathologist went to the search site late this afternoon to "assist with the search" so I think we may have news tomorrow morning of some definite closure for this poor family.
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Latest post on 14 August 2011 - 16:44
Thanks for your replies even though they are depressing me a bit!:-) I found it really hard to leave this time and come back here so we were hoping we could move back to Brisbane maybe within the year but I'm not sure we can now. My brother is in Sydney and suggested it might suit dh more but housing is even more expensive there. The kids kept commenting on the high prices of bottled water and bars of choc as they are the prices they know:-) Someone in Australia is making a killing on imports as when you compare the price of say a bottle of Evian here and in Oz it's so much more there and with the the high dollar importers in Oz are getting a lot more Evian for their dollars than last year. Even taking transportation into account, the prices don't compare. Yeah, but you soon adapt. The water out of the tap here is just beautiful to drink. Buy glass bottles and keep it in your fridge. Save the environment and just fill your kids bottles out of the tap every day for school or let them drink straight from the bubblers. Chocolate you buy in a bulk pack once a week.
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Latest post on 14 August 2011 - 16:13
Yes, the cost of living is high, but as you say, loads of things to do for free. Just being able to get out into the fresh air is fantastic. We had our kids in private school before we went to Dubai, but we live in a fairly decent area within a couple of km's of Brisbane city and have put them into the local state school since our return late last year. The kids are loving it. The eldest is due to start high school in 2012 and had places at both private and state school and we've decided to go with a state school with a number of Centres of Excellence.
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Latest post on 14 August 2011 - 15:45
Here are some websites to help you with your search, for a couple of kids in private schooling, plus all the other things you want, you'd want to earn at least $120k just to scrape by in my opinion. http://www.realestate.com.au/buy http://www.carsales.com.au/ http://www.somerville.qld.edu.au/enrolments/fees http://admissions.churchie.com.au/content.cfm/School-Fees/541 http://woolworths.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/website/woolworths?s_kwcid=TC|15293|woolworths||S|p|14119850861
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Latest post on 14 August 2011 - 08:35
The media and a lot of Queenslanders will be wearing red for Daniel tomorrow if you want to participate in memory of Daniel and support for his family and their foundation set up to educate and protect children.
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Latest post on 08 August 2011 - 14:25
Police found unidentified finger prints on the device that was hung around the girl's neck today. The extortion letter made reference to a book that's on the recommended reading list of the school her brothers attend and that her father is on the Board. A man was seen acting suspiciously by the Waterhouse family (Australian racing identities for non Aussies) around the girls family home around the time of the break-in and then a man in dark clothing was seen acting suspiciously in a nearby hotel after the incident and ran from the premises when police cars went by. Slowly the public are being drip fed information. It's been quite horrible really, so many people speculating that the girl and her family are involved for the media attention. The media are sleeping outside their home and filming their every move and reporting it on every news bulletin - yesterday she went out for Sushi with friends and then walked her dog, today she went to school, etc, etc.
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Latest post on 26 July 2011 - 03:55
Ramadan's a great time for a shopping trip to Dubai, the Malls are virtually empty during the day.
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Latest post on 21 July 2011 - 12:57
My son has a genetic condition that can predispose him to weight gain. He's not only a little over weight but very tall for his age. We're really quite strict on him maintaining a healthy diet and active lifestyle. I took him to one of his specialist appointments at one of the major hospitals n Dubai and the Philipino nurse came in to do his height and weight and after she fills in the growth chart, she looks at him and says "You are fat, fatty, fatty, boy". I just glared at her and leant forward and whispered "how dare you say that to my son, that's not the kind of comment I expect a medical professional to say to a child". She went white and apologised and must have scurried off to the doctor to tell him what she'd done before I got a chance to because he made a big deal about how well he was doing with his weight and exercise when he was examining him. Some cultures pretend that it's okay to say someone is fat, but in truth they know how rude and nasty they are being.
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Latest post on 20 July 2011 - 16:41
Yep, the wind here in Brisbane today was like ice. My eldest is in Canberra on Year 7 school camp and they had a great day in the snow today. The heater in their hotel room didn't work the first night they were there though so they froze, poor little buggers.
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Latest post on 17 July 2011 - 13:26
Pooh, I'd love to know who it was, thought it may have been one of you guys. The lady had two little blonde boys. Hiopefully I'll see her around and have the nerve to speak to her and have a chat.
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Latest post on 17 July 2011 - 07:13
Who has come home and was shopping at Camp Hill Woollies today? Heard a lady on her mobile talking about just being home from Dubai when I was shopping at Woolworths today.
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Latest post on 12 July 2011 - 03:21
Carrefour and Lulus have (well did have before I left eight months ago) the metal water bottles, but haven't seen metal lunch boxes. I found the choice of lunchboxes in Dubai pretty poor.
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Latest post on 10 July 2011 - 10:53
We moved to Dubai without school places. A couple of schools ended up giving the kids a place and it turned out to be the wrong choice, but it gave us a year to shop around and secure places at a better school.
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Latest post on 10 July 2011 - 10:34
Agree with a lot of what others have said on here. It depends entirely on your personal situation. If you're paying your own rent and schooling in Dubai, then the cost of living would be much lower for those in Australia, but other things are more expensive. We moved back late last year to Brisbane and some things I gasp at their expense compared to Dubai and others I rejoice that I can not only get for far less, but can actually get. A friend was over a couple of weeks ago visiting his kids and he was saying how expensive food was, but he was comparing taking his kids to Baskin Robins for icecream and asked if I'd found a huge difference, but I had to confess that I don't take the kids out for icecream often, we just buy a tub of icecream and cones at the supermarket and have it at home, and it's about a third of the price of what I would have paid in Dubai. So it really is a lifestyle thing I guess.
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Latest post on 29 June 2011 - 16:58
Do a search for British Expats, you'll find a helpful board with a big Australian forum, mainly Perth and Brisbane expats all willing to have a fruitless argument with each other about which suburbs are best. I'll tell you it's much better to ask the Perth girls here - there are a few - of the Australian idea of good suburbs and schools as well for a more balanced view. A lot of Brits go to Perth and settle in some new beachside suburb thinking it's the bees knees and then carry on about low class Australians and how woeful everything in Australia is. These are usually suburbs most ordinary Perth people wouldn't live in. [i'>Edited to add, I will give you some more input on Perth, but at the moment I'm ready for bed, it's 11pm here and have been up since before Dawn and only just got home and need to get up by 5am tomorrow too so better go get some sleep happening.[/i'> <em>edited by Kim67 on 29/06/2011</em>
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Latest post on 27 June 2011 - 03:16
Such a shame you had such a bad experience Kim as we have had totally the opposite and my DD has been at Turning Pointe for over 4 years now with most of the other girls having also been in the same group for that amount of time or longer. she absolutley loves her teacher and just got a Distinction in her exam, along with most of the other girls :):). I do hope you sort your classes out down in Oz....... Thanks Irishbelle, their classes were sorted within a day or so of landing back in the country in October. Straight back to our old studio. We're now at the studio six days a week, some days I run between the studio and another studio where they do their privates. They're both back in eisteddfod teams and solos. The little one performed on Friday and received a first and two seconds for her three classical solo dances. The adjudicator was very encouraging, saying she had great training and technique and showed a lot of promise, so things are going fine for them. She's off at winter school today with her friends as exams are coming up next month. The older one won't do her exam until the first session of the Majors next year (April) because she's rebuilding her strength, technique and flexibility.
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Latest post on 26 June 2011 - 17:59
When I arrived in Dubai in 2008 I phoned a visited ballet schools, when I spoke to the Principal at Turning Pointe about enrolling my girls, she was quite arrogant and cold and told me that if my girls were dancing at the level I told her they were in Australia and getting the results they were, then the RAD must have dropped its standards in Australia. What a silly comment to make when examiners come from all over the World to Australia as they do anywhere else in the world. I put the girls into The Ballet Centre and it was a disaster from start to very disappointing end, that's not to say that there are some lovely staff members and beautiful little dancers at the Centre, but management at the time was an absolute joke. I then found Nicola at Dance Horizons (through this forum) and that was where the girls stayed for the duration of our time in Dubai. They loved it there and were both trained very well and maintained Distinctions. Since coming back to Australia in October last year it's been an uphill battle, but one the girls are slowly winning. It's not a reflection of the teaching in Dubai, more the fact that there are such long breaks over summer and so little available to young dancers that unfortunately their technique suffers.
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Latest post on 26 June 2011 - 11:21
I shopped around a lot for ballet schools in Dubai and tried a couple. Dance Horizons was my pick.
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Latest post on 25 June 2011 - 09:06
Safa Club near in Al Safa hire the pool area, I've been to kids parties there with caterers, BBQ's tables etc by the pool.
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Latest post on 09 June 2011 - 23:24
No problem ladies. It was 8.8 yesterday with the chill factor at lunchtime and supposed to be even colder today. So yes Smells, I think Hervey Bay may be a bit nippier this year. I've got to be at a dance eisteddfod by 7.45am today so have to get the kids up and rugged up shortly for the day ahead. One of the teachers told me yesterday that I need to really rug them up as they are turning blue at school, not used to winter after being born in Brisbane and then spending the last two summers in Dubai.
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Latest post on 31 May 2011 - 16:01
There are a couple of places in Satwa that sell thread and sewing supplies.
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Latest post on 29 April 2011 - 06:51
The cheapest flights from Dubai to Brisbane when we came home in October were with Thai. We stopped over in Thailand - the flight from Dubai to Bangkok was great, so many empty seats that we could all lay down and get some kip and everyone had a personal screen to watch if they wanted. The Bangkok to Brisbane leg was a smaller plan, packed and no inflight entertainment at all. The flight was only five hours or so though so the kids were fine. It was so much less expensive than Emirates that it didn't even cost us as much for our flights and to stay in Thailand for two weeks holiday than it would have with Emirates (family of five).
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Latest post on 28 April 2011 - 07:50
Like born confused, we got Allied's to lower their quote to match Bridgeway.
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Latest post on 27 April 2011 - 04:14
The first year we were in Dubai, school was on Easter Sunday and I wrote a note to the school saying that due to our beliefs, the children wouldn't be attending school. A number of friends from the same school and other schools in Dubai came with us on a dhow cruise in Oman for the day. I'd say 50% of kids wouldn't turn up to school on Easter Sunday.
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Latest post on 24 April 2011 - 16:09
Clothes from Forever 21, Topshop, Oasis & H & M, as these stores are not in Australia. Anything from Boots Chemist, which is also not in Australia. Designer handbag, sunglasses or make-up such as MAC. Many things are more expensive in Australia due to the GST but generally of a good quality. I'm noticing a lot of the clothes my kids have from places like H&M are exactly the same as the one's at el cheapo places like Best'N'Less. Obviously all made at the same sweat shop in Asia with different tags for whatever country they're being shipped off to.
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Latest post on 23 April 2011 - 17:33
Just got sent the flyer from the Auskick guys and is the same place as last year 5.30am Mina Seyahi.
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Latest post on 23 April 2011 - 03:15
When we lived in Dubai my kids went to Horizon and we lived at Safa 1 in a great compound. Nice and close to school, but still the Safa Park lights could be a bit of a pain when getting there in the morning. There are a lot of nice ompounds in that Park'n'Shop area. A lot of places behind Union Coop too within walking distance to school.
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Latest post on 08 April 2011 - 14:52
I can only think of a handful of friends that have their school fees paid by the company. Honestly most people I know pay the fees out of their own pockets. I don't think the school fees are that insane here TBH. In Australia, whilst there are 'free' or government schools, the tax rates for higher income earners are astronimical (up to 47% on a sliding scale) so are not technically free at all but rather tax payer funded. That said, we pay in the 35-38K region for our school here in DXB- reasonable considering the teacher-child ratio, resources (although I do feel we should have better resources but that's a whole new thread!) and overall outcomes. I would love to send our kids to some of the well resourced American schools but at double the tuition fees it wouldn't be feasible nor necessary for us to do so. For the record, the kids school in Australia where they are enrolled for the future is approx 65K per year (think I converted that right!) so paying 35-38K here isn't to much of a stretch at this stage. But really the "private" schooling you're paying for in Dubai is equivalent to a good public school in Australia so you can't compare them to private schools in Australia.
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Latest post on 08 April 2011 - 14:47
The only time I've ever been in there, I just drove up to the gate and told the security guy I was there to pick up my daughter who was swimming with friends. Just drove on up, the valet was going to take my car but I said I wouldn't be long and he showed me to a parking space and I wandered in and got my daughter. Drove home, no worries at all.
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Latest post on 05 April 2011 - 01:10
My daughter had an excellent cello teacher who came to our villa her name is Anna, her number is 050 848 5574.
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Latest post on 27 March 2011 - 09:27
Kim you just wait and see how difficult it is going to be now you are coming to teenage years. Good you have managed so far. it can be very difficult. I realise it will be difficult and some of my 12 year old daughter's friends are already into looking older. We went to a pool party the other week and a couple of the girls looked 20 in their string bikini's, then there was mine with her sunshirt and boardies over her tankini. The girl who had the party went to the school disco in six inch heels, black skinny jeans, black push up bra and black singlet top, with full makeup and hair up in an adult style, we couldn't believe her mum had let her out of the house like it. But my girls are at the dance studio six days a week as well as school swimming, aerobics, dance team, choir and strings. The older girls they've been dancing with and hanging out with since they were toddlers are pretty much the same as they were in their pre-teens, good respectful girls with no tattoos and body piercings, who dress beautifully but not over the top tarty. Hopefully my girls will continue to look up to them and aspire to going to university to do dance like they are and not get caught up in too much out of control weekend partying.
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Latest post on 27 March 2011 - 08:49
I wouldn't put my 8 and 12 year old daughters in them, and neither would they want to wear them. Not every kid or every parent is going to want this type of clothing, you can't change the minds of either side so why bother trying.
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Latest post on 23 March 2011 - 16:14
Hey Mamaballs, very funny and accurate account of life in Dubai. I didn't hate my couple of years in Dubai, but I knew it would be only for a couple of years and then I would be out there so I made the most of a multi-cultural experience for my family. But being home in Australia and seeing the blue sky every day (even with all our storms and flooding) is so lovely, fresh air and free state schooling better than the private schooling the kids had in Dubai. They've had to catch up with some of their activities such as ballet, but they're cramming a lot in and catching up fast. As others have said, it's horses for courses, some love it, some hate it, and some just get on with every day life and don't think about it too much.
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Latest post on 22 March 2011 - 05:56
Agree with everyone who has said, too hard, too expensive. I didn't have a maid when I lived in Dubai with my three kids either - not even part time. In Australia, people do have cleaners, ironing ladies, nannies etc, but life here is much more relaxed and geared towards working families. Most schools have a before and after school facility on the premises, so you drop your kids at school, they have breakfast, play some games and then are taken to class by the staff and then after school are picked up at their classrooms and taken to after school care where they do homework, eat snacks, play etc etc. So basically, you can have them cared for from 7am-6pm on the school premises. Expect just as much running around here if your kids are into other activities, but expect it to be much more laid back, less stressful and better equipped for families.
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Latest post on 15 March 2011 - 02:02
Best RAD School in Dubai in my opinion is Dance Horizons. Call Nicola on 050 644 2972.
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Latest post on 14 March 2011 - 03:06
The roof top at Bab Al Shams.
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Latest post on 11 March 2011 - 07:23
The Antiques Museum in Al Quoz.
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Latest post on 07 March 2011 - 06:25
Why anyone would want to endure the sun-baked purgatory of July and August is beyond me. I stay as my husband has to, so I sit it out because I should be here with him. I feel the same, too long for my family to be apart if we don't have to be.
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Latest post on 07 March 2011 - 06:16
I spent a couple of summers in Dubai with three kids. We lived in compounds with airconditioned gyms, chilled pools, airconditioned villas. No hardship at all really. Turning night into day works well too.
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Latest post on 07 March 2011 - 02:08
Oh so this is what I want to know, let's say I put my girls into nursery until they are 5, can they go straight into grade 1 at the age of 5? i mean if they dont start KG until the age of 4, does that mean they'll be delayed in all their schooling and be one year behind their peers when they're in high school? Where I come from, the kids go to Kindergarten (play-based-learning) at the age of 3-5. once they turn 5 they start grade one. Yes, they'll be fine. We came from Australia where my just turned five year old had been in kindy two days a week and went straight into Grade 1 in Dubai, no problems, no catching up to do.
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Latest post on 07 March 2011 - 02:04
My nine son was checking out an application his dad downloaded for him as a joke called "thongs" and he told me when he opened it, there were no pictures of feet at all, just ladies with wedgies.
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Latest post on 19 February 2011 - 07:23
I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world? It does not matter how old my kids are. They use FB, but since I am fairly savvy on the pc/internet and I have blocks in place on my router, there is little chance of any harm coming to them. My point is that most of the Moms I know can not and do not monitor their childrens fb accounts. One Mom recently told me that her DD had never been on a bus before, and informed her that she had and she also had pics on her fb of her on the bus with her friends. The Mom was surprised but said she did not know how to use fb. I said she should have her DD's password and take her time to browse it when her DD is at school. She could not be bothered, bottom line. Just for the record, my kids have no friends outside the country and they always have email, you know. They have plenty of time for all of this, but for now, they can learn how to use it within my boundaries. So it's okay for your kids to use social networking websites but the rest of us should be prosecuted if we let ours use them? My three kids have facebook accounts, one also has twitter and one linkedin. They are all closely monitored by us and the kids are actually very good. Your kids may not have friends outside of the country you live in, but mine do and Facebook and Skype provide them with a fantastic means of staying in touch and informed of what's happening in each others lives. Maybe you should learn to be less judgemental of others.
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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 15:19
I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world?
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Latest post on 14 February 2011 - 08:35
News to me too. I always take my jewellery box in my hand luggage and customs have never checked it. Maybe they're talking about newly purchased jewellery.
 
 
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