As of today there will be a new 'item' on our weblog (left side, under "Perth walks"). As most of you will know, we have a sort of walking group (started with some co-Xpditers) doing a walk once a month in or around Perth. Usually I do take my camera and make some shots.
Have a look and let us know what you think .....
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Swimming Pool - Update 8
Erna / Ineke: Inderdaad, langzaam maar zeker komt er voortgang. De laatste weken gaat het eindelijk vrij snel. Het zwembadhek, de schutting (einde uitzicht ;-), de bestrating om de pool heen etc... Je ziet het wel aan de fotos hieronder ;-)
Kathleen: Dank je! Jullie gaan toch ook nog wel een weblog opzetten, zodat we ook jullie ervaringen kunnen volgen daar in het oosten des lands...
The progress on the pool is good, the pool fence, the colorbond fence (end of the view :-( ), the pump and the paving have al been done. The council has been around to inspect the fencing. Also they have put some screws in some windows that would open up into the pool area. They can no no longer be opened further than 10 cm. Two more things to do: The plastering of the inside of the pool and the solar heating. Sometime yesterday or the day before 2 pallets of cement have been dropped of in our front garden. We would think that means the plastering might be planned coming week ..... Our hopes are still up to swim by Christmas time...
Some photos:
Kathleen: Dank je! Jullie gaan toch ook nog wel een weblog opzetten, zodat we ook jullie ervaringen kunnen volgen daar in het oosten des lands...
The progress on the pool is good, the pool fence, the colorbond fence (end of the view :-( ), the pump and the paving have al been done. The council has been around to inspect the fencing. Also they have put some screws in some windows that would open up into the pool area. They can no no longer be opened further than 10 cm. Two more things to do: The plastering of the inside of the pool and the solar heating. Sometime yesterday or the day before 2 pallets of cement have been dropped of in our front garden. We would think that means the plastering might be planned coming week ..... Our hopes are still up to swim by Christmas time...
Some photos:
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Swimming Pool - Update 7 - and TAX
Time flies when you're having fun is what they say ... So we must have lots and lots of fun then, since the last post is more than 2 months ago. Was it all fun then?? Hmmm, no.. definitely a lot of very, very busy times at work as well ;-).
One of the things we have done in the last months is the Tax return. Like in Holland, through a downloadable program. One of the features is that a lot of information (like interest on you bankaccounts, medicare expenses, etc) can be downloaded through that program as well. That saves a lot of time in looking through all your papers, adding numbers etc ;-).
Another great thing about the tax office is that your receive your tax-return money in your bankaccount in only two weeks!
Also we have been calling the Dutch tax office as well. We have completed and sent in the 'M'-form (migration tax form) on paper (unfortunately, that can not be done electronically) back in February.
So, as instructed on all tax-documents we called the 'abroad tax department' in Heerlen. Asking about the status of our returns the officer had to check some things and came back telling that since it is about the time we were still living in Holland, it is not their department looking after it but the national department. He was able to connect us through. So the next officer got the same story by us. She had to look some things up as well. She told us that the forms had been received, but had not been processed. She made a remark that if that would stay like that too long, they might 'fell off the system' and we would have a risk of having to fill in new forms from scratch..... (can you believe that?). She also told that the local tax office in Den Bosch are the ones that would need to be handling this. She was going to organize for colleagues in the Den Bosch office to call us the next day .......
Now, almost two months later... still no news. So, of course we will have to try again to get in contact with the right people.... to be continued.
Well, back to our pool project. Here are a few more recent photos:
One of the things we have done in the last months is the Tax return. Like in Holland, through a downloadable program. One of the features is that a lot of information (like interest on you bankaccounts, medicare expenses, etc) can be downloaded through that program as well. That saves a lot of time in looking through all your papers, adding numbers etc ;-).
Another great thing about the tax office is that your receive your tax-return money in your bankaccount in only two weeks!
Also we have been calling the Dutch tax office as well. We have completed and sent in the 'M'-form (migration tax form) on paper (unfortunately, that can not be done electronically) back in February.
So, as instructed on all tax-documents we called the 'abroad tax department' in Heerlen. Asking about the status of our returns the officer had to check some things and came back telling that since it is about the time we were still living in Holland, it is not their department looking after it but the national department. He was able to connect us through. So the next officer got the same story by us. She had to look some things up as well. She told us that the forms had been received, but had not been processed. She made a remark that if that would stay like that too long, they might 'fell off the system' and we would have a risk of having to fill in new forms from scratch..... (can you believe that?). She also told that the local tax office in Den Bosch are the ones that would need to be handling this. She was going to organize for colleagues in the Den Bosch office to call us the next day .......
Now, almost two months later... still no news. So, of course we will have to try again to get in contact with the right people.... to be continued.
Well, back to our pool project. Here are a few more recent photos:
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