Rory, so sorry to hear you are a victim of GFC it seems no one is safe anymore...
Sounds like you are fairly upbeat about it all ( well as much as you can be anyway.. ) that you find some work at the end of Jan but until then enjoy your time with the family, as they after all are whats most important...

Well still the same hear, BHL has his job for now, everytime I speak to him he is either fill happy and confordent that he will keep his job or sad and worried that he is the next to go... You know what men are like worst than wemon when it comes to rumers....so it must be hard to know whats what... but so far most rumers have come true... No longer doing brisbane or Cairns flights only FIFO of Townsville ( which is a pain in the bum as BHL has just brought and paid for flights to Brisbane until the end of Jan ...The lastest was that they are going to shut down the site until Zinc prices improve... and as they produce almost 60% of the worlds zinc I cant imagin that will be good for anyone, I think it will start the downwards sprial for Australia.... so once again all we can do is that everything will be ok...

BHL said he will start to look for a new job once he gets home or atleast see whats out there but defently not going to quit ( which is what the company is hoping that people will start to do...) He said he is even willing to go to OS which is a wee bit scary but as always where he goes I will follow... worst comes to worst he will try to rejoin the Navy and we would just have to they take him back... otherwise we too like alot of people will be moving in with mum and dad and live off the dole until we find jobs again...

well better go everyone jobs are safe....