What do you miss?
Sep 28th 2003, 5:30 pm
#31
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Sleeping in, what is the point of daylight at 4.15 in summer, how the hell can you sleep off a good night out when its light in the middle of the bloody night. Dark curtains dont work by the way unless you are deaf, birds here squark like no other, if throwing shoes at Kookaburras was a crime I would get life.
Dressing up, who decided taking away our girly fun was a good idea, I want to wear and buy girly stuff, NOW please.
Shower Gel, why is this normal product overseas abnormally priced at $6.00 for 200ml, whats in it, liquid botox or somethng.
Dressing up, who decided taking away our girly fun was a good idea, I want to wear and buy girly stuff, NOW please.
Shower Gel, why is this normal product overseas abnormally priced at $6.00 for 200ml, whats in it, liquid botox or somethng.
Sep 28th 2003, 6:55 pm
#32
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Dotty - what does your average Aussie use in the shower then?
Maybe I should start up a shower gel and bubble bath company!!
Maybe I should start up a shower gel and bubble bath company!!
Sep 28th 2003, 7:07 pm
#33
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Originally posted by debsy
Dotty - what does your average Aussie use in the shower then?
Maybe I should start up a shower gel and bubble bath company!!
Dotty - what does your average Aussie use in the shower then?
Maybe I should start up a shower gel and bubble bath company!!
For toilet paper we cut up old newspapers thread a bit of string through, only joking on that one.
Bathroom stuff seems really x$ I mean lush charge $7 for one bath bomb, seems a bit rich to me. Those little colgate toothpastes are $4.00 here, 2 electric toothbrush heads $17.00 seems expensive thats all.
Last edited by dotty; Sep 28th 2003 at 7:11 pm.
Sep 28th 2003, 7:12 pm
#34
Semper Vigilante
Joined: Jun 2003
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 120
try radox aloe vera shower gel ..$2.69 for 500ml.Makes your skin really soft but you didn't her that from me cause I'm a bloke
Sep 28th 2003, 9:35 pm
#35
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Joined: Nov 2001
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Posts: 343
I miss:
my mates,
family,
marmite until I found it, it's call MY MATE!
Proper sized crisp packets
Slack traffic police!! lol
Bisto granules (got the bisto powder sorted now though)
Being able to go & watch world superbikes & motogp (oz is closest now!)
NEC bike show! & bike TV
However
we now have:
warmer winters, more open spaces, more twisty roads, cheaper supermarket beer! a great job!, I can bike race on the cheap! new friends! an excuse to fly to Melbourne (WSB & MotoGP)
A whole new country to discover!
Life's good! cheers!
my mates,
family,
marmite until I found it, it's call MY MATE!
Proper sized crisp packets
Slack traffic police!! lol
Bisto granules (got the bisto powder sorted now though)
Being able to go & watch world superbikes & motogp (oz is closest now!)
NEC bike show! & bike TV
However
we now have:
warmer winters, more open spaces, more twisty roads, cheaper supermarket beer! a great job!, I can bike race on the cheap! new friends! an excuse to fly to Melbourne (WSB & MotoGP)
A whole new country to discover!
Life's good! cheers!
Sep 29th 2003, 12:01 am
#36
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Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Paris
Posts: 835
When we were in Sydney I missed lots of things, but most of all -
People with a sense of humour (and who can laugh at themselves), family, old friends, quality of colleagues at work, trips to France, autumn country walks, cosy homes.
Now we have been back in England for 5 months I miss about Sydney -
Visiting vinyards (Hunter Valley), high quality meals out within my budget, fish, our balcony with views of Sydney harbour.
People with a sense of humour (and who can laugh at themselves), family, old friends, quality of colleagues at work, trips to France, autumn country walks, cosy homes.
Now we have been back in England for 5 months I miss about Sydney -
Visiting vinyards (Hunter Valley), high quality meals out within my budget, fish, our balcony with views of Sydney harbour.
Sep 29th 2003, 12:17 am
#37
Nov 27th 2003: Brisbane
Joined: Sep 2003
Location: Neath
Posts: 172
Well, I haven't gone yet, and though I'm really excited about going....I know for sure what I'm gonna miss:
My 2 kids, but I'm looking forward to having them come and stay for a few weeks next summer.
Saturday is Footie day, going to the match having a few beers before and after the game.with me next summer for a few weeks.
Sky sports.
Seeing pictures of Jordan and Jodie Marsh going after each other half naked on the front page of the Sun.
........but for every downer, theres an upper......
My 2 kids, but I'm looking forward to having them come and stay for a few weeks next summer.
Saturday is Footie day, going to the match having a few beers before and after the game.with me next summer for a few weeks.
Sky sports.
Seeing pictures of Jordan and Jodie Marsh going after each other half naked on the front page of the Sun.
........but for every downer, theres an upper......
Sep 29th 2003, 1:40 am
#38
home again, home again
Joined: Apr 2003
Location: Notts to Perth, Perth to Notts
Posts: 1,748
I miss ....
Family
Friends
Large variety of foods in supermarkets
Cheaper, but better quality clothing
Central heating
Decent wages
Part time employment
Not being bored
Eastenders
Decent tv
and lots lots lots lots more
Family
Friends
Large variety of foods in supermarkets
Cheaper, but better quality clothing
Central heating
Decent wages
Part time employment
Not being bored
Eastenders
Decent tv
and lots lots lots lots more
Sep 29th 2003, 2:15 pm
#39
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Location: Perth, Jnr is back!
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Mumsie
Friends
British Comedy and soap land
Not much else really and out of the above I miss no 3 most (God how sad is that!!!)
Friends
British Comedy and soap land
Not much else really and out of the above I miss no 3 most (God how sad is that!!!)
Sep 29th 2003, 4:11 pm
#40
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Joined: May 2003
Posts: 100
living in a country where people don't feel so insecure that they have to endlessly tell foreigners how flipping great it is here
Sep 29th 2003, 5:25 pm
#41
(It's not my real name)
Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Ilukapool. WA
Posts: 12,467
Originally posted by megawho
living in a country where people don't feel so insecure that they have to endlessly tell foreigners how flipping great it is here
living in a country where people don't feel so insecure that they have to endlessly tell foreigners how flipping great it is here
Sep 29th 2003, 7:57 pm
#42
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Joined: May 2003
Location: GC
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Originally posted by janeyray
I miss ....
Family
Friends
Large variety of foods in supermarkets
Cheaper, but better quality clothing
Central heating
Decent wages
Part time employment
Not being bored
Eastenders
Decent tv
and lots lots lots lots more
I miss ....
Family
Friends
Large variety of foods in supermarkets
Cheaper, but better quality clothing
Central heating
Decent wages
Part time employment
Not being bored
Eastenders
Decent tv
and lots lots lots lots more
He's back.......(Dirty Den I mean)
You can catch up with all the latest stories.
Debs
Sep 29th 2003, 8:27 pm
#43
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Joined: Feb 2003
Location: Brisvegas
Posts: 3,506
Originally posted by PADDAD
I miss my pals!
...long summer evenings, bisto gravy granules, real marmite, M&S, cheaper charges on mobile calls, rain and grey clouds (all this sun is doing my head in!), advanced banking - banking procedures seem a bit more medievil here, various telephone functions i.e. call waiting etc.
but most of all I miss my friends!!!
HOWEVER.. I love living here! We've bought a house which in the U.K. would be beyond our wildest dreams and the people are fab!
I miss my pals!...long summer evenings, bisto gravy granules, real marmite, M&S, cheaper charges on mobile calls, rain and grey clouds (all this sun is doing my head in!), advanced banking - banking procedures seem a bit more medievil here, various telephone functions i.e. call waiting etc.
but most of all I miss my friends!!!
HOWEVER.. I love living here! We've bought a house which in the U.K. would be beyond our wildest dreams and the people are fab!
Not that I eat it, but they've got imported Marmite in a chocolate shop in the Myer Centre in the CBD, just near the food court (they also have Blackpool rock and Yorkshire Tea but little else)
Sep 29th 2003, 11:08 pm
#44
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 235
they definately have wagon wheels, and they are bigger than the uk ones....yummy. I've only seen then in dispenser machines, but will check next time I'm in coles.
Originally posted by DaisyNZ
walkers crisps, frazzles, french fries, jaffa cakes, wagon wheels, jelly babies, white mice, ready brek, shreddies, mushy peas and soggy chips which you eat 30 seconds after you walk into the shop (as opposed to 20 minutes coz you have to sit and wait for them to cook them, how do you call that a takeaway!!!), the scottish hills, soccer, Big Breakfast (is it still on with Jonny wotsisname), country pubs, being able to fly to loads of different countries cheaply and quickly, central heating (never been as cold as I've been here in NZ - simply because of no central heating), leisure centres (fairly new concept in NZ if you live outside the big centres), cold christmas', and I could think of more.
But mostly my family, they are visiting us at the moment with my neice and nephew along with a suitcase full of the first items on my list. YUM.
nice winters, cheaper bigger houses, and people not being so image concious are things that I like here. Bit of an unbalanced list isn't it.
walkers crisps, frazzles, french fries, jaffa cakes, wagon wheels, jelly babies, white mice, ready brek, shreddies, mushy peas and soggy chips which you eat 30 seconds after you walk into the shop (as opposed to 20 minutes coz you have to sit and wait for them to cook them, how do you call that a takeaway!!!), the scottish hills, soccer, Big Breakfast (is it still on with Jonny wotsisname), country pubs, being able to fly to loads of different countries cheaply and quickly, central heating (never been as cold as I've been here in NZ - simply because of no central heating), leisure centres (fairly new concept in NZ if you live outside the big centres), cold christmas', and I could think of more.
But mostly my family, they are visiting us at the moment with my neice and nephew along with a suitcase full of the first items on my list. YUM.
nice winters, cheaper bigger houses, and people not being so image concious are things that I like here. Bit of an unbalanced list isn't it.
Sep 29th 2003, 11:55 pm
#45
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Joined: Sep 2003
Location: West Sussex.....for now!
Posts: 161
But was it still worth making all these sacrifices?
