Things you get used to.........
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:06 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by Bix
Have to be. Don't want to let down the customers do we ?
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:21 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
I have goods to export and she provides the transport to take them to the port for shipment.
About 10 lorries a week
About 10 lorries a week
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:23 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by Bix
I have goods to export and she provides the transport to take them to the port for shipment.
About 10 lorries a week
About 10 lorries a week
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:25 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by DIMO8
Phew...what on earth made me think it was illicite Sex...
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:26 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by Bix
it never crossed my mind you would take it that way
Apr 23rd 2005, 4:40 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by hevs
We've been here 18 months now and i'd just like to say hand on heart that i love it here now.
I have been really homesick and blamed it on Aus being crap, but it isn't crap its just different. The chocolate is starting to taste nice, i like beetroot cos its not canned in nasty vinegar and i even managed to go clothes shopping and got stuff that fits.
My top loader is still crap (though only a year old) and i will change it as soon as i have the money, my house is still a "renovators delight" but with the defasit of the move nearly over and the financial ground being made up we will have the money to fix it up very soon. I still miss central heating and double glazing, but have sourced both and it will be here soon, no more blue fingers to sit and type with
The kids school is slower and more relaxed, but my kids are happier and will turn out just the same as they would have in the UK going to school 18 months younger, again its just different...
Theres heaps more stuff that is different, but now i have accepted the fact that it is not crap, just different i'm ok with it all now and feel so much more happy and settled. I still miss people and that is sometimes still heartbreaking i am finding that we are all coping with it much better, but its still hard at times.
I suppose that i'm saying "don't fight it, feel it" and it can feel good if you let it. Roll on the next year and a half
I have been really homesick and blamed it on Aus being crap, but it isn't crap its just different. The chocolate is starting to taste nice, i like beetroot cos its not canned in nasty vinegar and i even managed to go clothes shopping and got stuff that fits.
My top loader is still crap (though only a year old) and i will change it as soon as i have the money, my house is still a "renovators delight" but with the defasit of the move nearly over and the financial ground being made up we will have the money to fix it up very soon. I still miss central heating and double glazing, but have sourced both and it will be here soon, no more blue fingers to sit and type with
The kids school is slower and more relaxed, but my kids are happier and will turn out just the same as they would have in the UK going to school 18 months younger, again its just different...
Theres heaps more stuff that is different, but now i have accepted the fact that it is not crap, just different i'm ok with it all now and feel so much more happy and settled. I still miss people and that is sometimes still heartbreaking i am finding that we are all coping with it much better, but its still hard at times.
I suppose that i'm saying "don't fight it, feel it" and it can feel good if you let it. Roll on the next year and a half
, but tonight I made myself seriously homesick by going online & checking the webcam of the new telescope they built on the hill behind the house I lived in for 10 years. I could see that it was overcast and that there would be no observing done tonight and I could see the far-off blue hills & the wild open spaces and I felt soooo homesick. And I missed my dog terribly, she loved those open spaces and all the little wild things she could find and chase in the bush 
Don't know why I did that, it was so stupid to do that to myself, but I guess it's due, I've been here for two years now.....
Apr 23rd 2005, 9:29 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
nice post hevs...cant beleive you have been there for 18 months, omg!
looks like bix is after your thread hi-jacker crown!! some pussies can be sooooo rude!!!
how are the kids adapting?
sue
looks like bix is after your thread hi-jacker crown!! some pussies can be sooooo rude!!!
how are the kids adapting?
sue
Apr 23rd 2005, 10:45 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by G'Day
Don't know why I did that, it was so stupid to do that to myself, but I guess it's due, I've been here for two years now.....
Apr 23rd 2005, 10:48 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by tiredwithtwins
nice post hevs...cant beleive you have been there for 18 months, omg!
looks like bix is after your thread hi-jacker crown!! some pussies can be sooooo rude!!!
how are the kids adapting?
sue
looks like bix is after your thread hi-jacker crown!! some pussies can be sooooo rude!!!
how are the kids adapting?
sue
I know that Bix is so rude, but the crown is miinnnee all mine *ha ha ha * evil cackle
The kids are sorted, Aussie accents are prevailing and they both love life here. We were thinking of trapsing back so that they could see everyone my daughter astounded us both with, "Oh god, do we have to?? I really can't be stuffed" hmmmmmmm
Apr 23rd 2005, 10:51 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by tonyk38
I love this post; nice one Hevs.
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I love the phrase, 'Don't fight it, feel it'. It sums things up in a nutshell. Perhaps that could become the official British Expats Aus Forum catch phrase!
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I love the phrase, 'Don't fight it, feel it'. It sums things up in a nutshell. Perhaps that could become the official British Expats Aus Forum catch phrase!
Thanks for liking my post, i was aiming it to thos who are walloing in homesickness at the mo and to say that sometimes it does go away and when it does its ace
Apr 23rd 2005, 10:51 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by hevs
Hi Sue
The kids are sorted, Aussie accents are prevailing and they both love life here. We were thinking of trapsing back so that they could see everyone my daughter astounded us both with, "Oh god, do we have to?? I really can't be stuffed" hmmmmmmm
The kids are sorted, Aussie accents are prevailing and they both love life here. We were thinking of trapsing back so that they could see everyone my daughter astounded us both with, "Oh god, do we have to?? I really can't be stuffed" hmmmmmmm
glad to hear they are ok - my kids are my main worry, as they have quite a big family they love dearly - quite how they will adapt to the separation i dont know.
glad its all working out for you! the thought of you with that chainsaw still makes me chuckle....any more fires in holes??
Apr 23rd 2005, 10:57 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by tiredwithtwins
cool!
glad its all working out for you! the thought of you with that chainsaw still makes me chuckle....any more fires in holes??
glad its all working out for you! the thought of you with that chainsaw still makes me chuckle....any more fires in holes??
No. But i had my first car crash on wednesday after 19 years of driving. Unfortunatly i crashed my car into HUPs and trashed them both
Re the kids..... its what you make it for them i think. We travelled for 6 weeks, they saw stuff that they hadn't even drempt about and had 6 weeks off school. We like to think that we bought them into the idea
It was a fab start, and when there stuff arrived at our new house, our new home was made
.When i see posts of people leaving all their stuff behind and dragging kids round the shops for the first few weeks i shudder, my 2 loathe bunnings, but other than that no lasting scars
Apr 23rd 2005, 11:02 am
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Thanks to Vanessa Caz and loopy for your well wishes and to others for their karma
Apr 23rd 2005, 8:33 pm
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by hevs
We've been here 18 months now and i'd just like to say hand on heart that i love it here now.
I have been really homesick and blamed it on Aus being crap, but it isn't crap its just different. The chocolate is starting to taste nice, i like beetroot cos its not canned in nasty vinegar and i even managed to go clothes shopping and got stuff that fits.
My top loader is still crap (though only a year old) and i will change it as soon as i have the money, my house is still a "renovators delight" but with the defasit of the move nearly over and the financial ground being made up we will have the money to fix it up very soon. I still miss central heating and double glazing, but have sourced both and it will be here soon, no more blue fingers to sit and type with
The kids school is slower and more relaxed, but my kids are happier and will turn out just the same as they would have in the UK going to school 18 months younger, again its just different...
Theres heaps more stuff that is different, but now i have accepted the fact that it is not crap, just different i'm ok with it all now and feel so much more happy and settled. I still miss people and that is sometimes still heartbreaking i am finding that we are all coping with it much better, but its still hard at times.
I suppose that i'm saying "don't fight it, feel it" and it can feel good if you let it. Roll on the next year and a half
I have been really homesick and blamed it on Aus being crap, but it isn't crap its just different. The chocolate is starting to taste nice, i like beetroot cos its not canned in nasty vinegar and i even managed to go clothes shopping and got stuff that fits.
My top loader is still crap (though only a year old) and i will change it as soon as i have the money, my house is still a "renovators delight" but with the defasit of the move nearly over and the financial ground being made up we will have the money to fix it up very soon. I still miss central heating and double glazing, but have sourced both and it will be here soon, no more blue fingers to sit and type with
The kids school is slower and more relaxed, but my kids are happier and will turn out just the same as they would have in the UK going to school 18 months younger, again its just different...
Theres heaps more stuff that is different, but now i have accepted the fact that it is not crap, just different i'm ok with it all now and feel so much more happy and settled. I still miss people and that is sometimes still heartbreaking i am finding that we are all coping with it much better, but its still hard at times.
I suppose that i'm saying "don't fight it, feel it" and it can feel good if you let it. Roll on the next year and a half
Hi,
great post find these type of posts very informative. I am sure when you arrive in Aus the temptation is to compare and I hear many people try to that on here wanting to know how its different. We are going because we want something different, a different way of live, anew country with all it has to offer.
Its people I am going to miss but hopefeully some will come to visit.
Great to hear about kids in school , coz that is a concern to me, not a worry if we stay in Aus but if we really dont like it how they will fit back into the uk system particularly as 2 would be in the secondary system here. Did your children start school in UK or first in Aus?
Chris
Apr 23rd 2005, 9:15 pm
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Re: Things you get used to.........
Originally Posted by hevs
Finnar finnar
No. But i had my first car crash on wednesday after 19 years of driving. Unfortunatly i crashed my car into HUPs and trashed them both
No. But i had my first car crash on wednesday after 19 years of driving. Unfortunatly i crashed my car into HUPs and trashed them both
