[chris&vickym]

hi, everyone.
been browsing the forum for a few weeks now and thought it was about time we introduced ourselves.
we're from lancashire and are in the early stages of planning our new life in nz. only just told our 3 children our plans and to our surprise are really up for it! which came as a bit of a shock, thought we might have to give it the hard sell..
i'm a cabinet maker/joiner and my wife is a family liason officer at a junior school.
we havnt give much thought on location, i guess where my trade is wanted, so any suggestions on that would be appreciated.
im sure ill be on here asking loads of questions in the coming months.

[Belmont Babes]

Hi All

A huge welcome to this great place. I hope you find it as useful as we have. Hope also that you enjoy the ride :nice1

[Peter&Liz]

Hi and welcome to the forum :)

[vixxann]

Hi and welcome - I'm also in Lancs and my OH also a tradesman (builder/joiner/carpenter) and I work in a primary school ! - oh and we have 3 kids ! how's that for similarities - and the biggie - we are all dead keen to get to NZ !!:D

Good luck and sure I'll catch you on here much more!

[CJ22]

Ey up :)

[JandM]

Hello.:)

[LesleyS]

Hello and welcome. Whereabouts in Lancashire?

[Nick88]

What is a Family Liason Officer? At my daughter's primary school here in rural NZ we are on first name terms with all of the teachers, many of them live locally.

[peebles16]

Hello and welcome from us NZ newbies too!

Karen

[benandclare]

Welcome along guys, have a fabbo time :raebanana

[chris&vickym]

hi all,
thanks very much for all your warm welcomes.

quite a few similaraties there vixxann !! whereabouts in lancs are you both from, has your oh had any job offers in nz? i keep hearing they are crying out for tradesmen.

lesley s we're both from pendle lancs,

nick88, family liason officer, is a kind of bridge between the school and as my wife says '' hard to reach familys'' the parents who never go near the school for parents evening sports day that kind of thing, its her job to do home visits and she put events on at school to try encourage them to get involved in their childs education. wow!! i must listen to what she says after all !!!

[vixxann]

you wouldn't believe we are in Pendle too !!
was going to send you a PM but as you are a newbie I cannot until you have posted a few more times (??)
ooooooh - i wonder who you are??!! :p

[chris&vickym]

... nelson?? (pendle) we're both new to these forums whats a pm? what a small world we live in, we might know each other..

[Mels]

Hi and welcome,

A 'PM' is a private message. But before you can send/recieve these you need to have posted 5+ times.

Mels

[vixxann]

oh.. one more post and then I can send you your first PM :)

[chris&vickym]

ahh private message, thanks thats been doing my head in all day!! god i'm thick.

[babscat]

We are 2 oldies also in Pendle, (Brierfield) and have just reurned from Napier, Hawke's Bay after spending 6 months with our daughter and family who emigrated last August Would be happy to make contact if we can be of any help!
Barbara

[chris&vickym]

hi, thats really strange, my wife has been looking up schools today in napier.
how are they finding their new life? we have so much to do over here yet but looking to go in about 18months. be great to have a chat.

[vixxann]

didn't realise there were so many pendle folks about here!!
Perhaps we'll have to make our next north west meet a bit more local?! (What do you think Dee?)

[Chiba]

I'm not Pendle, but ex-Rossendale (via 10 years in Japan). My dentist's still in Nelson though! :oQ

[Asli&Mark]

Hello Chris&Vickym and welcome to the forum :)

[bartons]

Hi Chris and Vickym,
my husband is a carpenter/joiner. Jobs for joiners are not quite as easy to find as for carpenters, but when we lived in Northland (Bay of Islands) there were quite a few joiners' jobs going. The NZ Herald had adverts for joiners in Auckland every week. We're now in Dunedin, and there's the odd vacancy for joiners coming up, too, and Queenstown and Wanaka seem to be very keen on them at the moment with all the building going on there. Christchurch has adverts for vacancies in the paper regularly, too.
The wages seem to vary a lot depending on location; the big cities pay quite a bit more.
Oh, and welcome to the forum!
Mareike

[shakyle2906]

hi, everyone.
been browsing the forum for a few weeks now and thought it was about time we introduced ourselves.
we're from lancashire and are in the early stages of planning our new life in nz. only just told our 3 children our plans and to our surprise are really up for it! which came as a bit of a shock, thought we might have to give it the hard sell..
i'm a cabinet maker/joiner and my wife is a family liason officer at a junior school.
we havnt give much thought on location, i guess where my trade is wanted, so any suggestions on that would be appreciated.
im sure ill be on here asking loads of questions in the coming months.


Hi Chris

OH is a joiner and they are very hard to come by over here!
I found a website purely by accident and popped his Cv on it, which we had a few emails about. This then resulted in getting an email from a Master Joiners website asking if we would authorise them to put his Cv on that.

We were then inundated in emails, which resulted in 3 job offers - Auckland, Wellington and Hawkes Bay. He had a few telephone interviews, the one that he is in now rang us 6am one Wednesday morning, i remember answering the phone zombie fied - but he must have made an impression - as we have been out here now 10mths and loving it!

We chose Hawkes Bay as it has the lovely climate and also because we couldnt see oursleves living in a big city, although i am sure the money in better.

I will try and jog my memory and PM you the website.............

HTH

Sharon

[tea drinker]

Hello and welcome