Oh no, someone lifted a stone and prodded a sleeping Wilf....... Maybe we could get him preserved in vinegar - just seems such a waste of good vinegar though.:p

No gratitude Pollyfilla?

I thought you were supposed to see the good side of all things? Still, it is better to get the negative mood early - it is more appropriate to life in Oz.

I still can't believe this girl Ellen is a social worker. She has a black belt in tough love. I am sure she has cleared her books of punters by scaring them off and the local council must be well chuffed. Now Oz is to experience these comforting tones?

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but why does it always degenerate into a slanging match? You lot bicker worse than my kids!

Sorry if I haven't answered some of the questions earlier on, like how we have settled, what do we miss, etc. etc. but I have been posting here since we arrived last year so rather than type it all in again (and remember the memory is getting fuzzy, I can't actually remember some of the things we missed at first!!!) so do a search with my name and see what it brings up.

I was interrupted typing this by a knock at the door - Jehovah's Witnesses - some things never change wherever you live!

This morning I saw my neighbour on the way to school and said to her "hi, how's it going?" Aaaaargh, did I really say that? I'm speaking the Aussie lingo without thinking! I even find myself calling my husband "Earndy" (that's Andy with an Aussie drawl). Yesterday I told my son to put on a pair of pants without holes in, meaning trousers, and I'm sure I've been using other Aussie words without realising. I expected the kids to pick up the lingo quickly because they're at school all day, but it appears I'm picking it up too. We've got relatives arriving next month for a visit, I'm sure they will be quick to point it out if we sound different.

Too TRUE but not on the refugees help line.



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Better an Australian accent than the all pervasive “mockney� that seems to be spreading like a disease throughout the south of England.

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I have seen people come and go over the years, and one year in you cannot say much yet. Give it one or two more yet and see what you think then. Your updates are good for the future immos but it is good for others to give some balance - it will save some from an expensive, disappointing mistake. Your one year enthusiasm reminds me of my kids when they first got skateboards and were going to be professionals, but that does not mean that your words of wonder are useless does it?

All mock accents are sad, Aussie or East London. No-one can be one year in and have a genuine Aussie inflection already except those who wish to assimilate rather than integrate. One day we will all have the same accent and life at this rate. It takes guts to live in Oz as an English person, and that is something most do not have.

I thought the in accent down the South East was East European well any is better than that Jock bleeder.

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Makes me glad I am a Scot.

Well my in-laws told me that a true Scot lives in Scotland the refugees who leave are traitors.



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More first generation Scots live as ex-pats than live in Scotland. And you obviously deserve your in-laws.

Well then you have more chance to survive than some here, but be a scotsman in Oz, not a paul hogan impersonator. The ozzies like the scots - ozzies are ten a penny in Oz, scotsmen more rare. These poms say things like "I am leaving because my country is being taken over and I cannot be proud to be English" and then "look how ozzie I am becoming, isn't it great?" Pathetic eh?

What hope for us Englishmen?

How long can you hide behind your Scottishness the people back in the Highlands miss you not.

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Now you are really struggling. Is that all you can come up with?