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I have enjoyed the responses to this thread, thanks everyone. :smile
The episodes have aired in this country on Sunday evenings, one week after they were broadcast in the UK, so I watched the last one tonight. I know that I could have watched sooner on the internet but I stayed watching the...
Thanks everyone for your informative opinions :rolleyes:
I have seen the first episode now so we are only seven and a half days behind here.
I think it is too early for me to make a judgement on the new Doctor yet but I can say so far that I don't instantly hate him.
I don't post on here so much these days since I am neither a contractor nor in the UK any more (although HMRC still harass me even this far away). But I do look on here from time to time to get a feeling for the current mood of the British people in the light of current affairs.
The new series...
There are two questions that have to be considered:
1. Where are you tax resident?
2. Where is your company tax resident?
I haven't looked into the Australian rules but I do know that the answer to 2 for another antipodean country is that the company becomes resident in their jurisdiction the...
I meant to say,
Gidday is the New Zealand pronunciation of hello.
G'day is the Australian pronunciation of hello.
It is important not to get the two mixed up.
I'm in Auckland, New Zealand now.
The UK and NZ both do daylight savings but in opposite directions and on different weekends.
So,
last Saturday, I was 13 hours ahead of UK time.
today I am 12 hours ahead of UK time.
next Saturday I will be 11 hours ahead of UK time.
Let's not talk about...
I am afraid that I have to report that although I finished a permie job last week I have now started in a new permie job.
The employment market here is small, there are some contract roles but the ones that I have seen so far have tended to be 'long-term' contracts to fill head-count rather...