I hope you never suffer from homesickness.

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I am told the original ad on ebay is "lighthearted" and "a joke", so I have reopened the thread.

ah, ok.

I think that it is a fabulous ebay product, and if I were not so tight, I'd send her a fiver for the laugh that it gave me

Would that be a fiver as in British pounds or Aussie Dollars?

...or American.... LOL. Actually, New Zealand....cos I am tight!

American is worth about the same as Aussie now, so it's all the same. If you're feeling really generous you could send Canadian dollars.

Well it affected me deeply. I'm going to wait till she's raked in a fortune and then sue her for damages.

ok apology accepted

That must be embarassing

Still a shower of.....

Im sorry but I have suffered 'people sickness' from day one, I have also had to contend with comments such as 'you must be boring if you like Australia' or being accused of being in the 'honeymoon' period for liking where I live.

I miss people, I wake up each morning missing my Dad so badly it hurts. I do not miss Tescos, I do not understand comments about 'Perth not being green' and I do not understand pub culture of missing UK pubs because I have never been in to pub culture - for me it is people and not places.

I deal with my people sickness in my own way and just because I am people sick to the point I cry that doesn't mean that I should slate the lack of 'Aussie history' or culture. Australia has its own culture and its own history - fair enough it isnt nor does it claim to be UK culture or history.

I laughed at the post because some of it was so unbelievable, but I guess we all have our reasons and what is important to us and Tescos, pubs and a 'different shade of green' is not to me.

But please do not assume that I dont miss things from the UK because I do, but not enough for me to sway in the direction of slating the country that I live in now.

I miss my friends and family big time, I never had the holiday period of when we first moved here and I was overwhelmed from day one.

But I am sorry, I have not and will never miss Tescos, pub culture and as for the grass - well it isn't any greener is it, it's how bloody well you trim the garden and whether or not the sun shines on it.

Nothing to do with homesickness or wanting to go back but, personally, I can never understand why people go on about the UK being greener than Australia. Sure Australia has vast areas of desert but at least there ARE vast areas that are not built on. Australia, like UK, varies in colour during the different times of the year. Australia has rolling green hills in the wet months just like the UK does but the difference comes about in the summer months. Sure the fields turn brown in Oz during the summer, but they do in England too, yet the suburbs of Australia still have green lawns thanks to retics and bore water whereas England's back gardens become a patchwork quilt of varying browns because of hosepipe bans! My kids could play on our green lawn all year round here in Australia. In summer in England they used to get prickled by the dry bits of straw that were meant to be grass.

I think it was the degree of sarcasm that you originally used that was the real issue for Pollyana and the fact that this might have been inappropriate because the OP (EBay) *might* be reading this thread and to her it would have seemed that you were mocking her and her sensibilities.

At a guess I would say that the issue of homesickness was a peripheral issue with regards to the core issue. A distraction really.

It could well be the case that the OP (Ebay) respects your feelings on Tescos, British country-side and pubs but doesn't feel the need to mock your opposing view?

These are just my objective thoughts on the matter.

There is a drought. The suburbs shouldn't have green lawns in summer if they do not come from natural rainfall. Bore water won't last forever either. Australia is a dry country. There are already major salinity problems because of us upsetting the delicate balance of runoff and underground water with tree clearing and excess irrrigation.

The grass is greener i'm looking at it...so there!!

I'm loving Tescos... so there!

Appreciating the foxgloves, cowslips, poppies, roses and daisies on the lawn... got a problem with it?


What a saddo aye? But i have not been so happy in years...