Things continue apace at Todd/Perry towers. Preparations for our imminent return to the mother country are slowly being completed. Bobo has managed to write some emails to her global human resources team advertising her availability for work (as long as it is in London of course) and I have started compiling a list of all of the people we need to notify that we have moved.
Normally its quite easy in this country, you just get Australia Post to redirect your snail mail to your new address for a period of between three and twelve months. They will even do this to an overseas address, a very useful feature of the service. The snag comes when people want to send you things, in our case wine. Its going to be hard to cancel our winery subscriptions.
Not to mention, how do you go about suspending your health fund membership? In this country its virtually obligatory to have private health cover if you earn more than two sheckels a year and there are penalties if you don’t. Specifically, if you are over 30 years old and don’t have private health cover the premium rises for every year you are not covered. So, we have private health cover.
But we are leaving the country for a bit so we don’t want to continue paying for it whilst we aren’t here and can’t claim on it. The clincher is that if we cancel the cover we are immediately penalised and will be liable for much greater premiums when we come back. So our choice is to continue paying for ineffective insurance or suffer greatly increased premiums when we take it up again. Time for some delecate negotiation with the people at NIB. Wish me luck.