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Our two Weeks in the UK

Hi everybody, we're back!

I would like to thank you all once again for the support you have given us following the death of my MIL, It was a bit of a shock to hear of Ruby Murrays situation too!

As you all know the reason we were back in the UK was the funeral, but I thought I'd post our observations too.

The Funeral was held on the only Sunny day we had and it was lovely, I almost lost it while singing all things wise and wonderful - the first song after the coffin was brought in, but managed the stiff upper lip bit in the end! We even all held it together at the mud slinging bit:blink: The coffin was lowered very quickly - before we has all got to the grave so that was a relief.

As anyone would, we worried about FIL - the parent left behind, but he is doing OK and has even bought himself a brand new car to replace the written off one. There is still no indication of what caused the car accident though.

Now we felt we were forced back to the UK, as we had no intentions of going for at least another year and spending all that money going somewhere we didn't want to go...well you know what I mean.

We wondered what our feelings were going to be, being back in the UK after nearly 3 years away, we wondered if we would have any regret, longing, homesickness so it was a bit scary. None of it! There was no regret, no pangs nothing but the feeling of we did the right thing in moving.

I was there 9 days, hubby 14, we had sunshine once and one other cloud filled dry day. The news was depressing, the traffic was horrendous (over 2 hours for hubby to drive to Heathrow to pick us up - only 33 miles). Litter was everywhere and people pushing and shoving to get to places and shop staff who didn't give a rats arse - I was looking at cream cakes in Asda and was shoved out of the way by a shelf filler so he could reload the shelves - and I mean shoved with the box of cakes he had. And everything seemed damp, inside and out, I mean really damp and cold too. The first few days I couldn't get up the stairs without wheezing and I'm fitter than I have ever been thanks to Curves and I don't have asthma so that was a bit scary. Parking was a nightmare and you had to pay everywhere you went to park.

On the plus side Fish and Chips were yummy, so were the kebabs from the Silver Jubilee in Potters Bar - the bloke that owns it makes his own from 20 lamb shoulders and salt and pepper - that's it and then he cooks it well so the meat is a little crispy on the outside - YUM. We brought back 66 quids worth of sweeties and OXO's:o The jam doughnuts were disapointing though, not what my taste buds remembered (and we tried two lots:o).

We went back for the worst reasons, we will only go back for the worst reasons from now on. Our home is Red Deer, Alberta and this is one family of immigrants that made the right choice for them:thumbsup:

Now I must go and walk my wonderful doggy who I have really missed!
Piff