Originally Posted by Alfresco

It's interesting to see what people do miss from the UK, but what are the things that people won't/don't miss?

Originally Posted by vicki78

My mother-in-law!!!!

And my wicked and competetive and twisted sister-in-law. And all the family dramas that these two caused.

I can't be thankful enough to be as far as possible from these two.

Originally Posted by JenJen

The bloody A140 shitty road, get stuck behind a tractor and you're stuffed for up to about 20 miles in places and they're forever doing roadworks on bits of road that don't need fixing !!!
Takes you hours to get in and out of Norfolk cause it's mostly single carriageway.

Fireworks that go on almost contantly from October to February !!!! By all means have fireworks for fireworks night and new year but nearly every damn night imbetween, aggravating f****** get right on my t***

Looking out nearly every morning to grey sky or worse

Ridiculous petrol prices, no we can't all JUST get a bus. I'd like to see Gordon Brown get a bus everywhere.

Speaking of which I know no minister is perfect but I won't miss his spitting image looking miserable mug.

My husbands family - I won't miss them at all in fact i'll be glad to be shot of the lot of them and I hope in time they realise they f***** up !!!

Apprently phone and internet is as bad if not worse out there but I won't miss BT or SkY bloody idiots that work there.

The Chavs in Norwich and Gt Yarmouth. The BA barracus look IS NOT IN and you look bloody stupid with all that jewellery on a hat offcentre and when you're over a size 18 it does not look flattering to put a belt under your bust with a SHORT t shirt on regardless of how much that look is in fashion at the moment.

The cold whistling through my front door or down the chimney.

Having to de - ice the car or desperately try and get the temperature right to clear the windscreen.

Won't miss the miserable cows from the down the post office, yes I do sell stuff on ebay and no I don't need you rolling your eyes as if it to say here she comes again snotty sods.

I won't miss the crappy awful excuse for parks - they're empty most the time cause they're so boring the kids don't want to play there you can only go down a slide so many times and use one of two swings when sharing with other kids before it gets boring. Parks on the whole in Australia put ones in this country to shame and I thought there was a good mis of things for ALL ages.

Won't miss my neighbours!

Won't miss the moss and green mould the latter of which is almost imposssible to get rid of by Spring.

Icy roads, black ice patches - driving or walking in the eithe rof those.

Excorcist weather ughhh nearly always when hubby is on nights - not comforting.

Having to drop everything for my brother to fit us in for a visit for 30 - 45 minutes once a year at their convenience.

Getting pressure to go visit my grandmother, she doesn't remember our names half the time and she never remembers we visited anyway, besides it scares our youngest son cause she keeps pulling at him and calling him that boy.

Boggy back garden that the kids can't use between end of October and March - literally you do sink in it and then by summer you fall into foot size pot holes.

Fogged up windows in the morning.

Two of my friends who I only ever hear from when they want something, it doesn't go both ways.

Cbeebies - mind numbing crap that we can't seem to completely wean our 4yr old off yet - anyone else think Andy comes across as a real weirdo?

I know ppl will jump on me for this but I just can't watch a WHOLE EVENING of children in need.

Eastenders
Coronation Street
Emmerdale and the other crappy UK soaps.

I don't enjoy strictly come dancing (Sorry)

Embaressing bodies - ughh which from the episode I saw resembles an awful porn program designed to turn you off the opposite sex not on.

I can't think of anything else at the moment

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Yep, Christmas in Australia is much better than in the UK.

Originally Posted by robclaridge

Fat chicks in crop tops or leggings
Thick people
Traffic
Gypseys - Thieving pikey B****

Originally Posted by spilko

You have to be joking. It may as well be cancelled. I've never been anywhere with less Xmas spirit than Perth

Originally Posted by spilko

You have to be joking. It may as well be cancelled. I've never been anywhere with less Xmas spirit than Perth

Originally Posted by Amazulu

For me, Christmas is about being with family and friends - and you can do that anywhere..

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Not if your family and close friends are all on the other side of the world.

Originally Posted by Amazulu

Isn't your husband Australian? He's family.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

He's my ex-husband.

Originally Posted by Amazulu

I didn't know that, sorry.