View Poll Results: What (if anything) do you miss re your homeland (UK)?
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What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Mar 6th 2011, 10:20 pm
#31
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Mar 6th 2011, 11:20 pm
#32
Daffyd Duck
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
you did not include "proximity to mainland europe and north american east coast"
Mar 6th 2011, 11:28 pm
#33
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Miss the history....
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
Mar 6th 2011, 11:29 pm
#34
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Miss the history....
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
Mar 7th 2011, 6:22 am
#35
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Miss the history....
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
Mar 7th 2011, 8:18 am
#36
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
I don't really miss much, but sometimes I miss the lovely bird song - especially when the bloody cockatoos are screeching. Why are aussie birds so loud???
I also miss my English cottage garden with good soil, not the crappy sandstone I've got here that is impossible to grow most plants on.
I also miss my English cottage garden with good soil, not the crappy sandstone I've got here that is impossible to grow most plants on.
Mar 7th 2011, 8:59 am
#37
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
I don't really miss much, but sometimes I miss the lovely bird song - especially when the bloody cockatoos are screeching. Why are aussie birds so loud???
I also miss my English cottage garden with good soil, not the crappy sandstone I've got here that is impossible to grow most plants on.
I also miss my English cottage garden with good soil, not the crappy sandstone I've got here that is impossible to grow most plants on.
I can relate to the gardening thing. When I first moved to Sydney I ripped up lots of grass (lets face it all Aussie gardens are mostly boring grass) and dug it over and went down the Garden Centre and stocked up on lots of British type plants like dalihas, sweat peas, runner beans and carrots.I was mortified when the dalihas bolted and flowered and finished flowering within a few days
They would flower for months in my UK garden. My sweat peas shrivelled up and were attacked by every flying beast under the sun! And all veg was just too much hard work.My Aussie neighbour came around one day and he found it a little funny I think. He had a very nice natural Australia garden full of flowering native plants and plants that didn't flower but had great structure / silver foliage. He advised me to work with the climate and conditions and not against it, which has been the mistake of new settlers down the generations.
Just let your European style garden go and create something Australian
There are plenty of nice Aussie plants that will grow on Sydney sandstone type areas.Or failing that get yourself a Blue Mountains cottage garden.
Last edited by Jon77; Mar 7th 2011 at 9:01 am.
Mar 7th 2011, 9:03 am
#38
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Mar 7th 2011, 10:07 am
#39
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
I have to say that I think most true Aussie natives, as garden plants, are generally pretty poor. They tend to be spindly and short lived. Most of the good garden plants, that survive the conditions well, are usually South African in origin. Some exceptions to that, obviously.
Mar 7th 2011, 10:08 am
#40
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Miss the history....
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
Mar 7th 2011, 10:18 am
#41
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
I miss the cold, crowded supermarkets, crowded roads, crap cycling, cookie-cut town centres, waiting for chips (I just put a fresh batch on - yeah when you saw me walk through the door), miserable shop-assistants, jobs-worths, being mugged by the tax office and their ungracious apologies, listening to people telling me how much they bought their house for, listening to people telling me how much they were screwing their nanny for (money-wise), listening to people complain when their nanny has pissed off without telling them, and those little midgey things that used to get in my eyes when cycling.
Mar 7th 2011, 10:59 am
#42
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Decent pubs close by more than decent pubs. And mates but not mateship. That's about it on the poll.
The strange thing I noticed on my first return was how many crap pubs I walked past to get to a decent one. Never used to notice that.
I miss the cold, crowded supermarkets, crowded roads, crap cycling, cookie-cut town centres, waiting for chips (I just put a fresh batch on - yeah when you saw me walk through the door), miserable shop-assistants, jobs-worths, being mugged by the tax office and their ungracious apologies, listening to people telling me how much they bought their house for, listening to people telling me how much they were screwing their nanny for (money-wise), listening to people complain when their nanny has pissed off without telling them, and those little midgey things that used to get in my eyes when cycling. But I don't miss any of them in an affectionate way.
Lucky Goldstar!
The strange thing I noticed on my first return was how many crap pubs I walked past to get to a decent one. Never used to notice that.
I miss the cold, crowded supermarkets, crowded roads, crap cycling, cookie-cut town centres, waiting for chips (I just put a fresh batch on - yeah when you saw me walk through the door), miserable shop-assistants, jobs-worths, being mugged by the tax office and their ungracious apologies, listening to people telling me how much they bought their house for, listening to people telling me how much they were screwing their nanny for (money-wise), listening to people complain when their nanny has pissed off without telling them, and those little midgey things that used to get in my eyes when cycling. But I don't miss any of them in an affectionate way.
Lucky Goldstar!
they prolly said "hide the chips, that whingey bloke's comming!
you know, the one who treats us like dog shit.
put a fresh batch on the second he walks through the door!"
Mar 7th 2011, 11:14 am
#43
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Having read the replies I suddenly was struck, not by missing hot chips (we get good ones here, and the deluxe topping is amazing) but I do miss Curry Sauce being available!
I will defo have some when/if we ever head back for a visit! That and a good curry full stop!
I will defo have some when/if we ever head back for a visit! That and a good curry full stop!
Mar 7th 2011, 11:32 am
#44
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
Miss the history....
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
My personal history, my family history and the whole History history thing...
When i lived in london I never got over walking past the buildings and places I'd read about in the history books and been taught about in school... i loved visiting places and being where important things had happened... Being where my family had been generations before me, feeling like i belonged, feeling a connection... loved being part of something that had shaped the world.. For good or for bad... A sense of belonging.
The other thing which is a little strange is that many of our friends here are from different areas of the UK, different backgrounds so sometimes they haven't been to places we've been and vice versa and had different experiences so again you don't always get to use your memories. We only ever lived an hour or so from where we were brought up so our friends were really old friends with some new ones added in so I do miss going over old times over a glass of wine or two. We do have one set of friends here who are from Brighton so it is lovely to say, hey you know that place or did you ever eat at so and so.
Maybe that's why you get homesick? Not be able to talk about your past with people who know what you are talking about in respect to places and events?
I do miss shops like Next and M&S, I know you can order online now but I've still not got round to it! Miss decent supermarkets, friends, family and I miss Brighton as it was such a fun place to live, a decent country pub on a hot summers day and pork pies! Other than that not much else!
Mar 7th 2011, 12:07 pm
#45
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Re: What do you miss most about Pommy Land?
I would agree with that, especially the personal history thing. Sometimes I feel like life only started 4 years ago as anything before that you can only share certain memories with those who were part of it back then. It does feel strange sometimes having to scrabble around in the memory banks when you meet up with your old mates either here or back on a visit. It's like you've awoken from a coma with no memory and have to start again.
The other thing which is a little strange is that many of our friends here are from different areas of the UK, different backgrounds so sometimes they haven't been to places we've been and vice versa and had different experiences so again you don't always get to use your memories. We only ever lived an hour or so from where we were brought up so our friends were really old friends with some new ones added in so I do miss going over old times over a glass of wine or two. We do have one set of friends here who are from Brighton so it is lovely to say, hey you know that place or did you ever eat at so and so.
Maybe that's why you get homesick? Not be able to talk about your past with people who know what you are talking about in respect to places and events?
I do miss shops like Next and M&S, I know you can order online now but I've still not got round to it! Miss decent supermarkets, friends, family and I miss Brighton as it was such a fun place to live, a decent country pub on a hot summers day and pork pies! Other than that not much else!
The other thing which is a little strange is that many of our friends here are from different areas of the UK, different backgrounds so sometimes they haven't been to places we've been and vice versa and had different experiences so again you don't always get to use your memories. We only ever lived an hour or so from where we were brought up so our friends were really old friends with some new ones added in so I do miss going over old times over a glass of wine or two. We do have one set of friends here who are from Brighton so it is lovely to say, hey you know that place or did you ever eat at so and so.
Maybe that's why you get homesick? Not be able to talk about your past with people who know what you are talking about in respect to places and events?
I do miss shops like Next and M&S, I know you can order online now but I've still not got round to it! Miss decent supermarkets, friends, family and I miss Brighton as it was such a fun place to live, a decent country pub on a hot summers day and pork pies! Other than that not much else!
