Where are you all from?
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:37 pm
#46
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Re: Where are you all from?
When you get to the Gold Coast come and look us up at Robina Town Centre yep you guessed it we have British Shop there just in case your missing sweets or food 
Originally Posted by brido
Thats a world tour Mick Jagger would be proud of!
We've been in Robroyston in Glasgow for the last 5 years,wifes from this end of the city and im from Johnstone near Paisley.
Ive lived in Saint John N.B and Ottawa Ont. in Canada for a few years as a lad.
Better half was in S.Africa but too young to remember much.
We should be in the Gold Coast before Xmas as we're expecting good news today/tomorrow regarding house! (fingers crossed)
We've been in Robroyston in Glasgow for the last 5 years,wifes from this end of the city and im from Johnstone near Paisley.
Ive lived in Saint John N.B and Ottawa Ont. in Canada for a few years as a lad.
Better half was in S.Africa but too young to remember much.
We should be in the Gold Coast before Xmas as we're expecting good news today/tomorrow regarding house! (fingers crossed)
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:40 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Loved Romford Markets Wednesday and Saturday mornings, my OH is from Shoreditch he missed out on a lot
Hi Fraser
Whereabouts
I am from Chadwell Heath then Romford then Chelmsford.
John[/QUOTE]
Originally Posted by jond
East London/Essex
Whereabouts
I am from Chadwell Heath then Romford then Chelmsford.
John[/QUOTE]
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:40 pm
#48
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Re: Where are you all from?
Do ya do pasties then ?
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:45 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
My dad was born in Sheffield UK in Attercliffe I must do a family search one day as he was the youngest of 13. I visited Sheffield in Tasmania last year lovely little village type place, full of beautiful murals. ooops waffling again, I do tend to do that must be the grey hair
Originally Posted by turtletom
Lived in Sheffield all my life now im in Canberra 
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:46 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by Bix
Do ya do pasties then ?
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:46 pm
#51
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by The Crow
We're both from good old Bristol
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:51 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by brido
We've been in Robroyston in Glasgow for the last 5 years
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:52 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Born in Basigstoke, did stints in Hull, North London, Amsterdam, Thetford, Coventry, and Cheshire before coming to Melbourne
Oct 2nd 2006, 12:54 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by Babs59
Hiya I too am Gold Coast, Do you go to the British Shop at Robina?
Oct 2nd 2006, 1:17 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by jond
Hi
I was reading another thread and saw that one of the posters was from Norfolk and I thought to myself that there doesn't seem to be many people on here from there.
So it got me wondering where are most of you from?
I will start I am from Essex and so is the OH and before anybody starts the only time I have seen her in white stilettos was on our wedding day. Dancing around her handbag is a different matter
John
I was reading another thread and saw that one of the posters was from Norfolk and I thought to myself that there doesn't seem to be many people on here from there.
So it got me wondering where are most of you from?
I will start I am from Essex and so is the OH and before anybody starts the only time I have seen her in white stilettos was on our wedding day. Dancing around her handbag is a different matter
John
Oct 2nd 2006, 3:57 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
I was born in Iran, so I'm a rag head, but we lived all over the ME and Britain, the joys of growing up in a divorced family and military one at that!
Oct 2nd 2006, 4:10 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Originally Posted by kingfisher241049
I am from Lincolnshire, my wife is originally from Pennsylvania, she is something of a gypsy having moved around a lot to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and finally Florida
Oct 2nd 2006, 4:22 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
OH is from Bury St Edmunds (well a village close by), saudi arabia and then chichester,
me, born in Scotland, went round the world somewhat, then chichester....
now here - perfect!
me, born in Scotland, went round the world somewhat, then chichester....
now here - perfect!
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Oct 2nd 2006, 4:38 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
Not many Northerners then, at least ones admitting it! We are both from Barnoldswick - soon to be in Melbourne I hope
Oct 2nd 2006, 4:46 pm
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Re: Where are you all from?
I live in Cambridge and am married to a Kiwi. We are heading off to Sydney in 2008 