Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:06 am
#31
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:12 am
#32
Still alive
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Shovel snow. Scrape ice off the car before I can drive. Rake leaves. See my in-laws.
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:15 am
#33
Home and Happy
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I hope that this was meant to be a joke.
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:18 am
#34
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Now that it looks like we'll still be in the UK for Christmas, we've been instructed to go to Folkestone next weekend (Himself's mother), Warrington on Christmas Eve (children's other gran) and my parents in Newcastle on Christmas Day. Not for dinner though, because they thought we wouldn't be here so they invited their friends for dinner instead. But they would like to see the kids. And its the last Christmas they'll be able to do that.
My mother was always good at guilt trips - just not very good at actual trips..
(I've got to keep her sweet because she's having the dogs for a couple of weeks before they fly out)
I won't miss all the politics of dealing with three sets of parents.
And I definitely won't miss the A1/A14/M11/M25/M20 hell of a trip from York to bleeding Kent either.
::does a grumpy face::
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:28 am
#35
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
So I guess the over priced, over crowded, late running, with no capital investment for 30 years uk public transport system is superior.
OK its not perfect here but at least ordinary people can afford to use public transport without taking out a second mortgage.
OK its not perfect here but at least ordinary people can afford to use public transport without taking out a second mortgage.
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:31 am
#36
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
But on a more serious note:
Drive anywhere in the UK - cup final days excepted.
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:58 am
#37
We're going home...yeay!!
Joined: May 2006
Location: Crossing off the days until I can leave Oz and go home.
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Can't wait until I can walk anywhere, even in the depths of winter, without having to slip and slide my way down the pavement hanging on to fences for dear life so I don't fall over and make a total tit of myself and end up cold and wet. Then spend 20 minutes waiting for a "once every 10 minutes" bus service, pay a fortune to stand and steam gently with everyone coughing and sneezing on me on said bus for another 20 minutes as we crawl up Mansfield Road into Nottingham City Centre.
Can't wait to see how winter in Adelaide compares....bring it on!!!!!!
T xx
Can't wait to see how winter in Adelaide compares....bring it on!!!!!!
T xx
Dec 3rd 2007, 8:05 am
#38
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
I won't miss Oxford Circus tube station, trying to push my way on to a train and getting groped in the process.
Or perhaps there is a better class of grope in Subiaco
Or perhaps there is a better class of grope in Subiaco
Dec 3rd 2007, 9:01 am
#39
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
)In fact, I shall use your phrase on my in-laws at Christmas. That should endear me further to them................
Buzzy
Dec 3rd 2007, 9:23 am
#40
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Put hot pieces of metal I have just machined into my pockets to try and keep warm in winter.
Dec 3rd 2007, 9:31 am
#41
I'm now an Aussie too!!!
Joined: May 2006
Location: 'Home by the Sea' Elanora
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
On trying to plan a day out, not having to say to the kids 'we'll have to see what the weather doing'!!!!! C x
C x
Dec 3rd 2007, 9:44 am
#42
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
I shall certainly not miss going down to the seafront (we live near Southend on sea) and looking at the beach thinking "that looks awful"... and then gazing across the sea to see the vile oil refineries on Canvey Island *shudder* it's such a horrible stoney beach too!
Having the kids off school in the summer hols and thinking "must pay to go somewhere" because is it always peeing down cold rain for the whole 6 weeks.
The caustraphobic feeling I get living in England (specially the southeast).. like there is no space to breathe.. and when you do breathe you are breathing in smog or car fumes!
Ooh I like this post.. makes me remember why I am emigrating and I get all excited again!!
Em x
Having the kids off school in the summer hols and thinking "must pay to go somewhere" because is it always peeing down cold rain for the whole 6 weeks.
The caustraphobic feeling I get living in England (specially the southeast).. like there is no space to breathe.. and when you do breathe you are breathing in smog or car fumes!
Ooh I like this post.. makes me remember why I am emigrating and I get all excited again!!
Em x
Dec 3rd 2007, 11:38 am
#44
is hoping for the best
Joined: Oct 2007
Location: dont know when now, but birmingham to perth soon :-(
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
i wont miss english weather, brummy accents, my inlaws, colds and dry throats from central heating, bumping into people i went to school with,having not seen them for years and quietly comparing myself to them,
in facts, its more a case of what i WILL miss, my family, thats about it.
in facts, its more a case of what i WILL miss, my family, thats about it.
Dec 3rd 2007, 11:48 am
#45
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Location: Warnbro PERTH
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Re: Following your move to Oz, what are you glad you won't have to do any more?
Getting up to an alarm clock...Ive managed to work things out that here I dont have to..bliss