NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Nov 27th 2007, 5:36 am
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Nov 27th 2007, 6:12 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Just one thing I wanted to mention.
London is the new Poland I'm sure! ... they're everywhere!
I don't see it a prob, other then I hear Polish all the time, and I hear they're hard workers so that can't be a bad thing, but when we left there was a lot of Eastern European's about, but back after 20 months and at times I look around and it seems 50% of people are from that part of Europe.
I DON'T judge people on colour or race, I do on simply how they are with ME. If ok, then I reciprocate and all good, but having people around me speaking something other than English to me is rude, and I've had this heaps of times since coming back. Everything from in the back of the cab to the local supermarket, ppl talking in another language, what are they saying about me? ...lol, but why ?!
When in Rome?
I remember goin to Victoria to the passport office to get new passports before we left. We got the job done and hit the local KFC (
... it was a time thing ok!!) and while I stood in the queue EVERYONE around me was talking in about 3 or 4 languages! ... straight up! ... and you know none of them was English!
I dunno, but I prefer it in Oz where pretty much all I hear all day is English, albeit a bit of a bastardized version at times! ...
Greezy hair! ... WTF! ...lol
London is the new Poland I'm sure! ... they're everywhere!
I don't see it a prob, other then I hear Polish all the time, and I hear they're hard workers so that can't be a bad thing, but when we left there was a lot of Eastern European's about, but back after 20 months and at times I look around and it seems 50% of people are from that part of Europe.
I DON'T judge people on colour or race, I do on simply how they are with ME. If ok, then I reciprocate and all good, but having people around me speaking something other than English to me is rude, and I've had this heaps of times since coming back. Everything from in the back of the cab to the local supermarket, ppl talking in another language, what are they saying about me? ...lol, but why ?!
When in Rome?
I remember goin to Victoria to the passport office to get new passports before we left. We got the job done and hit the local KFC (
... it was a time thing ok!!) and while I stood in the queue EVERYONE around me was talking in about 3 or 4 languages! ... straight up! ... and you know none of them was English!I dunno, but I prefer it in Oz where pretty much all I hear all day is English, albeit a bit of a bastardized version at times! ...
Greezy hair! ... WTF! ...lol
We've got a Polish restaurant not far from us, it's fab! It's so cheap it's unbelievable and such a friendly place - it is more a place that the Polish go to eat to be honest and they don't actually speak English but they do make an effort to make you feel welcome.
Well done on getting over target again Paul
Not long now!
Nov 27th 2007, 6:16 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
you know i was gonna.. but then then really couldnt be bothered...
and figured id most likely be slightly out numbered
omg this comp is crap
im typing and like 5 secs later it comes on the screen... shocking
OMG u have to get one of them pizzas... u know the american hot ones
pizza express?
the oven ones.. i have to go pick up pizzas after work and just remembered lol, i hate picking them up cuase then i can smell them but not eat them
maybe ill just eat and drive but be too hard? lol
Nov 27th 2007, 6:28 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Oi you I only asked a question that I wanted an answer to, wasn't looking for an argument on the musical ability of the bloke 
Seriously, why has he not gone to prison? Please?????
I only asked a question that I wanted an answer to, wasn't looking for an argument on the musical ability of the bloke Seriously, why has he not gone to prison? Please?????
Nov 27th 2007, 4:41 pm
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Oh dear, posts to reply to but don't have time for a change ...
I spent an hour earlier up at Sunny Watford snapping away, even got my number plate taken cos I took a pic of the local pub! ... I could see this woman in my rear view mirror gettin pen and paper out and clocking as I passed!
Anyway, as promised a few Watford snaps ...
High Street:
Destiny (or whatever it's called these days) & Yates:
I must admit, it was a tad moving goin down our old road and seeing the house we spent a fortune on, and cruising round them old streets I know so well, but I just have no want to be here so easy to deal with really ...
Oh and haven't done 150kph for a good while! ...lol
I always knew they drove slower in Oz but I had my poor cab flat out at one point (pic) and I was just keeping up with the flow! ...
110kph ...
I spent an hour earlier up at Sunny Watford snapping away, even got my number plate taken cos I took a pic of the local pub! ...
I could see this woman in my rear view mirror gettin pen and paper out and clocking as I passed!Anyway, as promised a few Watford snaps ...
High Street:
Destiny (or whatever it's called these days) & Yates:
I must admit, it was a tad moving goin down our old road and seeing the house we spent a fortune on, and cruising round them old streets I know so well, but I just have no want to be here so easy to deal with really ...
Oh and haven't done 150kph for a good while! ...lol
I always knew they drove slower in Oz but I had my poor cab flat out at one point (pic) and I was just keeping up with the flow! ...
110kph ...
Nov 27th 2007, 5:26 pm
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
The Xmas Tree in Trafalgar Square would be nice. Kilburn High Road (don't ask), and anything in Watford and surroundings if you get there. So far I've loved them all. I am please that all the pic's show London as a clean city and not the dive some people (who don't know it well) seem to think it is. Tooley Street and Knightsbridge bring back afew memories too, shan't say why though.
Oh fa sure, Walkers too! ... altho not in a roll.
Nice chip roll, that'll do tonight, I'll try and pop into the Sea Shell before I start.
Lol, sounds like Birmingham.
We've got a Polish restaurant not far from us, it's fab! It's so cheap it's unbelievable and such a friendly place - it is more a place that the Polish go to eat to be honest and they don't actually speak English but they do make an effort to make you feel welcome.
Well done on getting over target again Paul. Not long now!
We've got a Polish restaurant not far from us, it's fab! It's so cheap it's unbelievable and such a friendly place - it is more a place that the Polish go to eat to be honest and they don't actually speak English but they do make an effort to make you feel welcome.
Well done on getting over target again Paul. Not long now!
My sister in law got her hair cut the other day (yes, very annoyed I wasn't consulted ... but had said I didn't bring scissors or razor for customs reasons already I spose) and that was at a cheap Polish place, £6 I think ...
.. but seems ok from what I can see.Cheers Kath, yeah targets targets targets!! ... all I go on about but it IS what it's all about I spose. I said to Nic If I can bring back something to go tawards a tinny, maybe we'll clear $2,000 from the $2,500 credit card debt and leave $500 owing, so I can put THAT money towards whatever I can get and buy even a little little tinny.
I GOTTA get my lil tinny, I know the whole thing was to clear debt, pay fee's, and all the rest, but a BIG chunk of what drove me to come back WAS to buy me a lil tinny as i don't see us earning enough to buy one out there for a while yet ...
Sounds like a plan don't it ...
Nice!
I know that don't stop him being a (whatever you'd call him here) but he's obv not an idiot.He should get together with that Amy Winehouse.
Nov 27th 2007, 5:49 pm
#384
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
RE: Pete Doherty,
Prison is soo not the place for somebody who is constantly arrested for possession of a Class A substance... He's an addict not a dealer, all that will happen is that he'll become even more dependent on the very drugs that get him arrested time after time after time.
The truth of the matter is that there is little we can do for him unless he wants to do it himself. Kate Moss learned that the hard way....
On a lighter note.... Well done you on exceeding your target! Soon be on that plane back home!
Ali x
Prison is soo not the place for somebody who is constantly arrested for possession of a Class A substance... He's an addict not a dealer, all that will happen is that he'll become even more dependent on the very drugs that get him arrested time after time after time.
The truth of the matter is that there is little we can do for him unless he wants to do it himself. Kate Moss learned that the hard way....
On a lighter note.... Well done you on exceeding your target! Soon be on that plane back home!
Ali x
Nov 27th 2007, 6:01 pm
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Yeah as I say I don't have issues with them, but I don't live here and I hear a LOT of ppl complaining! ...
My sister in law got her hair cut the other day (yes, very annoyed I wasn't consulted ... but had said I didn't bring scissors or razor for customs reasons already I spose) and that was at a cheap Polish place, £6 I think ...
.. but seems ok from what I can see.Cheers Kath, yeah targets targets targets!! ... all I go on about but it IS what it's all about I spose. I said to Nic If I can bring back something to go tawards a tinny, maybe we'll clear $2,000 from the $2,500 credit card debt and leave $500 owing, so I can put THAT money towards whatever I can get and buy even a little little tinny.
I GOTTA get my lil tinny, I know the whole thing was to clear debt, pay fee's, and all the rest, but a BIG chunk of what drove me to come back WAS to buy me a lil tinny as i don't see us earning enough to buy one out there for a while yet ...
Sounds like a plan don't it ...
Sounds like a good plan to me
Nov 27th 2007, 6:09 pm
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
[QUOTE=PaulandNic;5606885]
lil Sounds like a plan don't it ...
Yey! Sounds like a plan Could you stick to it please. You are ruining my nerves. God alone knows how your wife is coping with you!
lil Sounds like a plan don't it ...
Yey! Sounds like a plan
Could you stick to it please. You are ruining my nerves. God alone knows how your wife is coping with you!
Nov 27th 2007, 11:50 pm
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Oh dear, posts to reply to but don't have time for a change ...
I spent an hour earlier up at Sunny Watford snapping away, even got my number plate taken cos I took a pic of the local pub! ... I could see this woman in my rear view mirror gettin pen and paper out and clocking as I passed!
Anyway, as promised a few Watford snaps ...
High Street:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007746.jpg
Destiny (or whatever it's called these days) & Yates:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007747.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007748.jpg
I must admit, it was a tad moving goin down our old road and seeing the house we spent a fortune on, and cruising round them old streets I know so well, but I just have no want to be here so easy to deal with really ...
Oh and haven't done 150kph for a good while! ...lol
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007720.jpg
I always knew they drove slower in Oz but I had my poor cab flat out at one point (pic) and I was just keeping up with the flow! ...
110kph ...
I spent an hour earlier up at Sunny Watford snapping away, even got my number plate taken cos I took a pic of the local pub! ...
I could see this woman in my rear view mirror gettin pen and paper out and clocking as I passed!Anyway, as promised a few Watford snaps ...
High Street:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007746.jpg
Destiny (or whatever it's called these days) & Yates:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007747.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007748.jpg
I must admit, it was a tad moving goin down our old road and seeing the house we spent a fortune on, and cruising round them old streets I know so well, but I just have no want to be here so easy to deal with really ...
Oh and haven't done 150kph for a good while! ...lol
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7112007720.jpg
I always knew they drove slower in Oz but I had my poor cab flat out at one point (pic) and I was just keeping up with the flow! ...
110kph ...
Nov 28th 2007, 3:03 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Thanks for the Watford pics. So glad I'm here. The Harlequin Centre was the only shopping centre in the UK I could go in without panicking But the one way system used to do my head in.
But the one way system used to do my head in.
Nov 28th 2007, 3:40 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Must admit fatigue is setting in and I'm having a half hour around the midnight that I struggle to keep awake ...
I think EVERY night i'll drop this fare off, pull up somewhere, set my alarm for an hour and have a refresher!! ... yet to happen tho, and I seem to get past it ok.This is why I know I'll sleep well on the plane on return ...
Plan B is good tho, I'll get that tinny one way or another!
Oh Nic copes, but won't let me talk about 'figures' anymore! ...lol.
Thanks ever so for the Watford pic's. Isn't the top end of the High Street nice. I bet the Harlequin is all decked out and looking really xmasy. I was shopping in there in Dec.03 and there were little kiddies from a local school singing Xmas Carols. I don't mind admitting that my eyes watered and I had a huge lump in my throat. I was the opposite to you. I wished I didn't have to come back to Oz.
If my camera was quicker I would've got a lovely pic from Kilburn High Road on my way in tonight. A couple of policemen holding some lout up against the wall of a pub, and half of the windows smashed! ... I wonder if it was him ?!?!
Roadworks and I HAD to keep moving or I'd of posted that pic ...lol
I've gotta check my phone as I don't think I took any pics other than me eating an egg & bacon roll under Waterloo bridge for Haley ...lol
One week to go! ...
Nov 28th 2007, 3:55 am
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Re: NEVER thought I'd say it, but I'm goin home!
Yeah the lot bought back lots of fond memories, and if I had the time I would've ran into the Harlequin, but alas!
If my camera was quicker I would've got a lovely pic from Kilburn High Road on my way in tonight. A couple of policemen holding some lout up against the wall of a pub, and half of the windows smashed! ... I wonder if it was him ?!?!
Roadworks and I HAD to keep moving or I'd of posted that pic ...lol
Ahhh, the one way system! ... yeah that could be fun!
I've gotta check my phone as I don't think I took any pics other than me eating an egg & bacon roll under Waterloo bridge for Haley ...lol
One week to go! ...
If my camera was quicker I would've got a lovely pic from Kilburn High Road on my way in tonight. A couple of policemen holding some lout up against the wall of a pub, and half of the windows smashed! ... I wonder if it was him ?!?!
Roadworks and I HAD to keep moving or I'd of posted that pic ...lol
Ahhh, the one way system! ... yeah that could be fun!
I've gotta check my phone as I don't think I took any pics other than me eating an egg & bacon roll under Waterloo bridge for Haley ...lol
One week to go! ...
I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but when we were last back, waiting in the traffic queues (and all the traffic lights turning red just as I got to them) as I drove into Watford around by where Clements used to be (S'bury's on the right) didn't bother me one iota. I just sat calmly looking around and wondering why the hell we had ever left. I felt 'home', at peace. So go on, laugh if you will, but that's how I felt.
Last edited by St.Georges Girl; Nov 28th 2007 at 4:00 am.