purple80

Merry Christmas to you too!
Charlie

Lorna_D

Congratulations Charlie and family, I am soo glad you've stopped pacing Savour every minute of it and you know we'll be here to support you during your seperation. Have a very Merry Christmas and a good Canadian New Year

burton bunch

Congratulations Charlie and Co

Babe if you need any support from someone who knows what it is like to be left behind to co ordinate the move drop me a PM or contact me through MSN if you like .

Merry Christmas and you will have an even better 2008 for sure.

Lots of Love

Gaynor
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Member123

Didn't I tell you just to believe in Santa...you didn't let us down. See you have put your feet up, must have needed a lot of massaging after all that pacing

We will surely support you through your seperation and hopefully it wont be too long.

What a lovely Christmas you are going to have now Charlie

Coffeepot

love your purple fuzzman

NovaBoy

Great news Charlie - at long last!

Enjoy your last Christmas in the UK - 2008 will be in CANADA!!

All the best from me & B.

purple80

Thank you, it's all still sinking in.... Thanks Gaynor, it's the bit neither of us are looking forward too, but we know it will be worth it in the end....
I am sure I will be in touch.
Merry Christmas.

Chris all set for massaging tonight.

He's cute isn't he..... Thank you very much, seems so long ago that we all met in Sherwood Forrest.

Chris received his formal offer today, we are absolutely stoked, pay and package are excellent, and completely out of the blue we have a rather amazing relocation package....

For the first time ever Chris bought a lottery ticket today, guess he's feeling lucky! Then again he is married to me.

Charlie

NETTY07

Charlie just thought i'd let u know i have been left behind for a month ,my hubby is back on xmas Eve -how excited am i !!!!!
If you take a look at the bigger picture its worth it in the end .
I'm busy packing for our arrival next Sat .
Good luck with Lotto .
Netty

fuschiagirl

CONGRATULATIONS!

Have a great Christmas! Love your new avatar

Jo

sara76

Hi Charlie, I just started reading your thread today & glad I didn't have to wait like the rest of you for a result. lol
We went through a similar thing. We were looking at Toronto as my husband works in IT, we then went one of the trade shows & got talked in to Alberta with their IT boom. However a position came up near Toronto. So he had a couple of phone interviews & he got the job, to start 5 wks later! Being left behind was not really an option as our youngest child was 5 months old & he did not want to miss out on her growing up. So we car booted & ebay'd alot & rented the house out. 4 weeks later my husband & I, our 2 children & big dog left Gatwick airport on 5th June 2006. He got his work visa expidited within 3 weeks as he works in a very niche market that not alot of people can do, he explains it to me but I just don't understand it! lol
So my advice is, install turbo lister of ebay, clear the stuff you don't want, your weekends will now be spent at car boot sales & buy big holdalls to take with you as you get more in then a suitcase & you can cram them into the boot of a car easily!

Congratulations Good luck! I hate Tim Horton's I call the Tim Bits Satans Testes! I am not a coffee lover either or tea for that matter & the hot choc just tastes like sugar. Over that way there are plenty of British import shops, so when you want a jaffa cake or proper chocolate, you will feel better! Oh & you can get Live UK TV for $45 a month or you can get it time delayed by 5 hours so you can watch at the time that you would watch it in the UK. I think I would have really liked that when we first moved here, however I am now 18months behind & found new programmes, but I have to say when I first came here I thought the tv was horrendous. Amazing what you get used to!

Sara

Lorna_D

Oh my God - Sara without the H, how can you say you don't like Timmies I have a French Vanilla and honey dip donut twice a week to keep me going. I don't miss any foods from the UK but my OH is partial to a Jaffa Cake and a good Mars Bar

sara76

lol, I do like donuts, just nothing frome Tim Hortons, apart from a tasted bagel with cheese as you can't really go wrong with that. lol My husband is partial to their coffee & the cinnamon danish thing, however I can't stand cinnamon.
I do miss certain foods from the UK & really would like to find somewhere that does a savaloy or sausage in batter. I have found a couple that are close on the chips. Saying that I didn't go to the chippie much when we lived in the UK. Not sure about this condensed crap they fob off as soup & everything seems to be so processed or 'fine filtered'. I wanted some breaded mushrooms the other day & could not find any. Not sure I get all this plastic Kraft cheese either! But after a while you get used it. However having said that my mother inlaw is over in March & my husband wants her to pop by a Tesco on the way to the airport to pick up some sugary jam donuts.

Lorna_D

I totally agree with you about the soup and the Kraft stuff, I'm not a cheese or tomato lover so when I first moved over shopping was a problem but not for my OH cos they are two of his favourite foods so he was in heaven. We've only been here since September and I'm still tring to find a coffee that I like but the meat is so good whatever you buy so I'm happy there

startwin

Sorry you're finding everything so awful and processed. But I had to laugh at not being able to find breaded mushrooms. They don't grow that way - have you ever thought of breading your own mushrooms?

Sorry about the sarcasm - I seem to get like this on
Sunday mornings!

purple80

Thanks Sara,
We are all very excited! So much to do and we don't really know where to start.....The word lists has been mentioned, I like lists.....We are going to get the stuff together that is a priority and worry about the rest when we return from France 7th January. Gulp....
Charlie