Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
May 9th 2006, 9:45 pm
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Re: Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
Originally Posted by halcyon 52
I just got the address book out as it was bugging the life out of me and they actually lived at Baldwins Lane, Hall Green.
Like many other people we simply lost touch and often think about them, it must be the same when moving to Oz. You must have to put an awful lot of effort into keeping in touch with people in the U.K just based on the time difference alone.
Like many other people we simply lost touch and often think about them, it must be the same when moving to Oz. You must have to put an awful lot of effort into keeping in touch with people in the U.K just based on the time difference alone.
May 9th 2006, 10:08 pm
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Re: Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
If you read academic books on Australian history, you'll find there are loads of history and it's interesting too. There is stacks of books just on the 200 odd years let alone before. Settlement makes for good reading, not just for the social-economic side. Better than hearing about the multitude of overseas wars the King was involved in back in the old country.
I'm halfway through Clark's History- its heavy going in places - the man is a loon (!) and writes like he was actually there in 1810 but it actually makes you realise its not all settlers and convicts -there were a few complications and issues and all sorts of grey areas that ran for a while.
I'm halfway through Clark's History- its heavy going in places - the man is a loon (!) and writes like he was actually there in 1810 but it actually makes you realise its not all settlers and convicts -there were a few complications and issues and all sorts of grey areas that ran for a while.
May 10th 2006, 7:22 am
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Re: Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
Originally Posted by Clippies
Hall Green is t'other side from me so I don't know it really. It's funny isn't it how you lose touch with some people - I've got in touch with people before only to be disapointed they're not the same! As the saying goes, once you move you find out who your true friends are. I have a few close really true friends and I honestly can't imagine them not keeping in touch but who knows. I've told my hubby he'd best get practicing with his conversation skills cus we'll have to do lots of socialising when we get there to meet people - he's so shy it's not something he relishes lol
We will have a decision in approximately 6 months now and my mrs said on Monday night that she was having serious doubts about going (the first time this has happened). We chatted about it and she just said she had lived here nearly all her life and she does know a lot of people. She only really goes out with a very few friends though and then not very often.
Friends come and friends go and even best friends can fall out with each other.
I have some good friends of 20+ years (4) but it is not enough to keep me here. I guess I am just not as attached as my mrs is although I always have, and wil made the effort to keep in touch with them.
I look at my mrs friends at the moment and we go out with them and they are great people but she has only met them through the pre-school and school in the last couple of years. One has moved back to Liverpool which was sad and one is thinking of moving back to Scotland - see my point is people come and go in your life, sad but true.
May 10th 2006, 7:33 am
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Re: Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
Originally Posted by halcyon 52
We met them on honeymoon and we did see them a few times and always phoned each other up then we both had children at the roughly the same time and it dwindled from there.
We will have a decision in approximately 6 months now and my mrs said on Monday night that she was having serious doubts about going (the first time this has happened). We chatted about it and she just said she had lived here nearly all her life and she does know a lot of people. She only really goes out with a very few friends though and then not very often.
Friends come and friends go and even best friends can fall out with each other.
I have some good friends of 20+ years (4) but it is not enough to keep me here. I guess I am just not as attached as my mrs is although I always have, and wil made the effort to keep in touch with them.
I look at my mrs friends at the moment and we go out with them and they are great people but she has only met them through the pre-school and school in the last couple of years. One has moved back to Liverpool which was sad and one is thinking of moving back to Scotland - see my point is people come and go in your life, sad but true.
We will have a decision in approximately 6 months now and my mrs said on Monday night that she was having serious doubts about going (the first time this has happened). We chatted about it and she just said she had lived here nearly all her life and she does know a lot of people. She only really goes out with a very few friends though and then not very often.
Friends come and friends go and even best friends can fall out with each other.
I have some good friends of 20+ years (4) but it is not enough to keep me here. I guess I am just not as attached as my mrs is although I always have, and wil made the effort to keep in touch with them.
I look at my mrs friends at the moment and we go out with them and they are great people but she has only met them through the pre-school and school in the last couple of years. One has moved back to Liverpool which was sad and one is thinking of moving back to Scotland - see my point is people come and go in your life, sad but true.
May 10th 2006, 7:42 am
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Re: Every Bus Sheleter in Ocean Reef Smashed Up
Originally Posted by Clippies
I have friends I met since having my son (age 4) and I'll miss them as we do things during together the day and our kids are all friends, but my friends I've known for years, there are four of us all together and we're so very close - we don't see each other week and we don't speak every day but we all share a history of friendship and it is this that I'll miss so very much. I'll miss regular girls nights we have and I'll miss the fact that I can be there for them and they can be there for me in a drop everything and meet now kind of way. It's not enough to keep me here though - who knows if it'll be enough to make me come back!
I feel exactly the same, its just phoning up e.t.c which is difficult from Oz as we found out even our reccie. Like you friendships of years have a history and it is hard.
We are not looking at the move as forever so I suppose that helps. It may sound mad but I cannot see my mrs settling very long term out there but who knows - it might be me.
Must go on the school run - cheers James.
