Missing the UK?
Jan 7th 2009 | 9:50 am
#138
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Re: Missing the UK?
Thought that was the sin bin.....basingstoke
Rainey you said you'd just come back from basingstoke....u lied to me
right better go, hubby thinks im well busy today...Attachment 77030
Rainey you said you'd just come back from basingstoke....u lied to me
right better go, hubby thinks im well busy today...Attachment 77030
Jan 7th 2009 | 9:53 am
#139
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Re: Missing the UK?
Well at least you have figured out why all these people want to move to Canada, the service is out of this world!!
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
Jan 7th 2009 | 9:55 am
#140
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Re: Missing the UK?
Well at least you have figured out why all these people want to move to Canada, the service is out of this world!!
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
You've got it mastered though what with the mat and rose petals!!
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Re: Missing the UK?
Jan 7th 2009 | 10:09 am
#143
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Re: Missing the UK?
Well at least you have figured out why all these people want to move to Canada, the service is out of this world!!
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
Please don't get me started on customer service. That's a truly hot issue with me. Actually customer service in Canada is quite good and IMO considerably better than in UK. Having said that, much improvement still needed.
Jan 7th 2009 | 10:17 am
#144
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Re: Missing the UK?
Malt loaf.
Jan 7th 2009 | 10:28 am
#145
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Re: Missing the UK?
Expensive but available, at least it was last time I was in the store. 
The British Shop in the small shopping centre across from Northland Volkswagon in NW Calgary.
They had Battenburg cake too.
The British Shop in the small shopping centre across from Northland Volkswagon in NW Calgary.
They had Battenburg cake too.
Last edited by Steve_P; Jan 7th 2009 at 10:32 am.
Jan 7th 2009 | 11:24 am
#146
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Re: Missing the UK?
Brianscottie....I know I probably do come across as sounding very bitter and anti-Canada, but I'm not totally. There is still an awful lot here that I do love, and believe me, I doubt and double check myself every minute of the day if giving what I have up here and returning to my old life in the UK is what I really want to do permanently. Missing my parents & my sister who I'm so close with, and her kids has really affected me more since losing my father in law exactly one year ago. It was very traumatic to be over here and get "that phone call at 4am", struggling with the grief, arranging for the flight home, worrying about the money, etc..and it dawned on me that I don't think I could cope with another phone call like that. I would be an absolute basket case if it was for one of my family members. Only my decision to go back home wasn't as simple as that...my OH didn't want to entertain the idea of jacking everything in here so it's been a year of fights and arguments - a power struggle for Canada-v-UK.
I sound bitter purely because I'm powerless in being able to move back home due to my OH and the housing price crash/recession here and it's like I'm being forced to stay here.
It must be really difficult when you and your OH aren't in agreement about moving back
Best of luck in sorting out your problems
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Jan 7th 2009 | 1:29 pm
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Re: Missing the UK?
I was chatting away to my mum yesterday (phone card, had 12 hours to talk only got 1.5 hr before it cut us off 
) ..
Anyway,she was like, "i have sent you a food parcel", im thinking oh yeah, malt loaf, roast chic crisps, Knorr soup, mushy peas, dumpling mix ..
She told me what she had sent which was .. bless her ..
Doritos (lightly salted) .. Carr's water crackers and brandy snaps ..
I didnt have the heart to tell her that i prefer the crisps here, that i have in my cupboard Carr's pepper crackers, which are better than the plain ones .. BUT i had forgot just how much i had missed the brandy snaps (remember to buy some cream) so i will eat all of those immediately and not share with anyone ..
Hurry up postman ...
) ..Anyway,she was like, "i have sent you a food parcel", im thinking oh yeah, malt loaf, roast chic crisps, Knorr soup, mushy peas, dumpling mix ..
She told me what she had sent which was .. bless her ..
Doritos (lightly salted) .. Carr's water crackers and brandy snaps ..
I didnt have the heart to tell her that i prefer the crisps here, that i have in my cupboard Carr's pepper crackers, which are better than the plain ones .. BUT i had forgot just how much i had missed the brandy snaps (remember to buy some cream) so i will eat all of those immediately and not share with anyone ..
Hurry up postman ...
Jan 7th 2009 | 1:52 pm
#150
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Re: Missing the UK?
Aww Piff..cheers mate 
You're the only one this side of the Atlantic beside "W" & the kids that know what I've really gone through these past couple of years. It's hard enough trying to express your experiences, reasons and differences here on the B.E., but my homelife is also like living an Expats forum as you well know!! 
Thanks for sticking by me and supporting me...you have the patience of a saint and are my Agony Aunt in the flesh
P.S. Luna loved yesterday...I hope she's dreaming of all that running now while she rests in her kennel following her operation today...just phoned the vets now and it went very well
Brianscottie....I know I probably do come across as sounding very bitter and anti-Canada, but I'm not totally. There is still an awful lot here that I do love, and believe me, I doubt and double check myself every minute of the day if giving what I have up here and returning to my old life in the UK is what I really want to do permanently. Missing my parents & my sister who I'm so close with, and her kids has really affected me more since losing my father in law exactly one year ago. It was very traumatic to be over here and get "that phone call at 4am", struggling with the grief, arranging for the flight home, worrying about the money, etc..and it dawned on me that I don't think I could cope with another phone call like that. I would be an absolute basket case if it was for one of my family members. Only my decision to go back home wasn't as simple as that...my OH didn't want to entertain the idea of jacking everything in here so it's been a year of fights and arguments - a power struggle for Canada-v-UK.
I sound bitter purely because I'm powerless in being able to move back home due to my OH and the housing price crash/recession here and it's like I'm being forced to stay here.
You're the only one this side of the Atlantic beside "W" & the kids that know what I've really gone through these past couple of years. It's hard enough trying to express your experiences, reasons and differences here on the B.E., but my homelife is also like living an Expats forum as you well know!! Thanks for sticking by me and supporting me...you have the patience of a saint and are my Agony Aunt in the flesh P.S. Luna loved yesterday...I hope she's dreaming of all that running now while she rests in her kennel following her operation today...just phoned the vets now and it went very well
Brianscottie....I know I probably do come across as sounding very bitter and anti-Canada, but I'm not totally. There is still an awful lot here that I do love, and believe me, I doubt and double check myself every minute of the day if giving what I have up here and returning to my old life in the UK is what I really want to do permanently. Missing my parents & my sister who I'm so close with, and her kids has really affected me more since losing my father in law exactly one year ago. It was very traumatic to be over here and get "that phone call at 4am", struggling with the grief, arranging for the flight home, worrying about the money, etc..and it dawned on me that I don't think I could cope with another phone call like that. I would be an absolute basket case if it was for one of my family members. Only my decision to go back home wasn't as simple as that...my OH didn't want to entertain the idea of jacking everything in here so it's been a year of fights and arguments - a power struggle for Canada-v-UK.
I sound bitter purely because I'm powerless in being able to move back home due to my OH and the housing price crash/recession here and it's like I'm being forced to stay here.
