missing home
 

Today I am missing the green fields and little villages of the Sussex I grew up in. Looking on Google maps likely isnt helping me out.
I want to go for a walk around my nans old cottage in the fields and then have lunch at my aunts house. She also lives in an old house down a farm lane.
I want her Sunday lunch (even though its Monday) followed by her home made scones with homemade strawberry jam and cream.


Today.... I miss my old life.


ugh :(

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Sounds great can I come :@)

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There are those days when a glimpse of something, or particularly for me the smell of something, can set off a yearning for times past that nothing can make better. Sometimes life here can seem like three steps forward and two back. You are going forward, and you know it and it's good, but at the same time you've had to leave a bit of yourself behind in order to get here and some of them are fond memories, for the places that made us 'us'.

Take heart, tomorrow will feel better.....

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I felt a bit like that when I was watching the ITV series Unforgotten.

There were country roads and fields in the first series and a funfair at the seaside and now, in the second series, a nice view of Brighton, an anonymous village green outside a pub in the Cotswolds and then great views of Salisbury.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...8447800593.jpg

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Yes!! Thats exactly how it feels for me too. Thank you

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Plan a visit, then look fwd to it. Don't deny yourself that visit, even if it's just you alone. My wife often goes UK without me, the last time was Xmas 2016, she wanted to just spend Xmas there. I wasn't wanting to travel as I had just had a heart stenting procedure, but she goes at least twice a year where as I go once ever 2 years, maybe.

Look for cheap times, October November or February best time.

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Or you know that the rest of your life will be spent as an outside as you've come to the realization that any connections, whether they are personal or community based, are ultimately superficial. It's a kind of like self-inflicted autism.

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I often google my old city as I miss it dearly and the people I knew and still know and activities I enjoyed.

If I could visit home more then things might be better at least more to look forward to through the year.

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gulp!

awe, its the dead of winter in Canada & the nice green green grass of home along with the memories would be a great 24 hour fix (snap your fingers to be there) that would work for any of us right now.

I miss my sister & just want to give her a hug, have a chat & a cuppa

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Thank you

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I have just spent two and half years back home..its like going back to an old GF you think it will be great as you only remember the good things..then when you go back all the crap stuff that made you leave come strait back to the fore.

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just checked the wow airlines Canada website. They have a flight 27 Feb to 11 Mar return for $450 all-in YYZ-KEF-LGW, for those that don't mind the Iceland route. Flight time is 10 hrs 30 min each way

https://en.wowair.ca

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And don't forget Icelandair has very good luggage allowance! We flew with them December - they were pretty good.

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Funny you should make a post like that. I never get homesick, Canada is home now, and it more than makes up for the things I sometimes miss in the UK. Infact I had a fantastic weekend doing great outdoor activities with good friends.

However I had some bad news about my uncle last night, he is very ill, and im not sure what the doctors are able to do, or what the outcome will be at present, they are the only part of my family I am still in regular contact with after living here coming up to 8 years. I don’t know why…but I felt instantly homesick, and have done since I learned of the news, it’s a horrible feeling as I I never normally feel it, I suppose I just feel very distant and hopeless.

Different circumstances to you, but the same feeling, urgh..
:(

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:thumbup: and...:thumbsup:

I also love Icelandair- reviews on airline forums considerably better than WOW but that price that is quoted above however is pretty damned good-even Westjet to Gatwick is about double that from say YYZ (looking at cost aspect over this side of the country)

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Could you put in a good word and get them to fly from Moncton?

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Koma flúga með okkur til Englands BristolUK við myndum elska að pamper þér


UPS fly from Moncton via Keflavik/ Reykjavik but you might need to hide in a large cardboard box wrapped in bubble wrap- legroom isn't great

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I can see the window of my old dorm in that picture of Salisbury! I went to the Cathedral School in the grounds of the cathedral (sort of bottom right of that picture - was the Bishop's Palace back in the day).

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Bubble-wrap....well at least that would keep my mind off the cramped space. But I'd have to leave some bubbles unpopped for padding.

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I don't miss people or foods but when I watch a good BBC drama and see the countryside I do have the occasional yearning.
Then again I miss France at times too as that's where I grew up.
I think it's more nostalgia than homesickness.

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I think you are spot on here. I miss the countryside and places of my childhood, I miss my grandmother, I miss being that child at that time.
Just because from Google maps it looks the same doesnt mean that it is.
My cousin informed me that it isa grey wet mess there right now and wasnt somewhere I would enjoy a walk right now. His down to earth response on my rose coloured view was helpful.

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Of course it's nostalgia. It wears off. I used to get a bit nostalgic about Brighton. Just remembering the good bits, obviously.

I don't belong there anymore and now have no reason to go there. I'd be a complete stranger if I did. Same with London.

London intimidates me.

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Oddly, I'm less intimidated now during frequent travel to London from 2300 miles away than when I used to occasionally travel in from deepest Essexshire 20 years ago. It's busy, sure, and dirty, sure, & yes I'm not commuting by train/tube generally, but I don't find it intimidating generally.

Motorway service stations on the other hand....I find pretty intolerable these days. The air of barely suppressed rage from everyone there & the general squalor is horrible.

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The rage bit is what gets me most. Even looking at someone seems to amount to an invitation for a fight.

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Yeah dont miss that at all. Its the same outside British nightclubs and pubs I found.... look at someone in the perceived wrong way and the shit hits the fan. Thats all saying they can focus enough on you to notice or they are not splayed face down outside the kebab shop :huh:

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I think that's called culture, you're probably not used to it anymore. ;)

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For oxygen. :unsure:

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Not sure I was ever used to it. I'm a gentle soul.

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Good point. With the occasional ones filled with Helium for laughs.

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Souvy, you're the person who keeps following around I think? You spent some time in Reims? Do you miss France at all?

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It's winter, February. It's a grim time.

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No. It's OK to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I didn't like Reims at all.

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Maybe because I spent all my teens there I see it differently. My childhood friends are French.
I would say though that when a bout of nostalgia hits it's for Sussex/Surrey.

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I don't feel nostalgic for Surrey. I worked in Epsom for six years and commuted from SW London. Then I went to work in central London and moved to Epsom. Some dodgy logic there!

Sussex isn't much important to me these days. A couple of brothers that I speak to frequently but rarely see, and a niece that I don't like. None of my childhood friends still lives there.

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Surrey was my little childhood to the age of nine in Peaslake. Gorgeous country village.
When I came back from France I lived in Guildford and Woking. Hubby commuted to Epsom actually. Then down to Storrington in West Sussex. That's the main part that comes to mind when I'm missing the UK. But I'm happy here. My kids are all close by. It's great!

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I sometimes feel homesick too but my imagination runs away and I forget about all the things that annoyed me at home. I do miss nipping down to the village pub for a few drinks but that's why a visit is always good! The continual snow in my area is getting right on my nerves but soon soon soon soon spring shall be here and I won't miss home as much....hang in there and make sure you've always got a visit planned....it helps.

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I think it's misnamed.

I think it should really be Timesickness.

All those days when we were innocent, oh to be able to re-live those really excruciatingly embarrassing encounters. It's all tied in with places, people, events and where you grew up. It's the same for everybody.

A shame really, because some days I realise that I'm not eighteen any more.

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But the snowboarding /skiing up at Big White these last 10 days or so must have dulled the pain!:thumbup:

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Hubby didn't work for Atkins, by any chance?

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WS?