Lots of stuff about how great/crap/what ever, Canada is.

But, if you were still in the UK now, today, what do you think you would be doing.

I emailed a friend who still works as a pi in the uk and he had not been home for two weeks. I used to work with him, so that would be what i would have been doing. Two weeks of twin room travelodge life and 10 hr days in the east end of London. And on top of that a pay drop. What! Yep cash is tight and bonuses have been slashed. Omg.

Rule Britania..lol

Sometimes when I read news items about Britain, it's like the whole place is rotating in the death throes of a giant swirly.


(Swirly - The process of sticking someone's head in the toilet and flushing)

Much the same as what I'm doing now, retired.

No hobbies? Pastimes?

I used to paraglide in the uk. Took my wing and gear with me if we worked Newcastle (i flew the 4. Peaks nr middsborough) or wales where i wnt to the Long Mynd.

Here i am about to start Hang gliding and fly Rc planes with my lad.

Well, I am back in the UK, our day so far:

The kids and I did the local parkrun (5k run with a few hundred other in a beautiful British park)

After the run the kids played in the skate park while I sat in the sun with a nice coffee

Went for brunch

Popped into Waitrose

I did some grass cutting / gardening while kids went around the village doing chores for a donation to a local charity

Don't believe all you read in the papers, Blighty aint so bad

Norfolk sounds nice. ;-)

I'd be racing motorbikes this weekend with my mates

I'd be doing the exact same work for the exact same company for the same equivalent money.

I'd be very much enjoying life as much as i am now, only a little closer to my family.

I'd also be paying as much attention to the media as i do now............very little.

Life would be brilliant

Just goes to show what said in a previous thread, its differant here for most, not loads better.

For me being away from my kids all week sucked.

I did build an RC model plane back in the late 40's but only got to fly it free-flight until I could afford the electronics. It all came to an end when His Majesty ( King George) told me I had to join th RAF for a couple of years.

I am thinking of joining a Martial Arts club, I hope they accept 81 year olds. My 53 year old son doesn't think it's a good idea. But then he takes his life in his hands cycling to work in Washington DC.

I would hope to have progressed in my work ( I was up for promotion when we left) as long as there hadn't been cuts in the part of the civil service I worked in, I would hope my husband had started up on his own so was happier in his work. I would hope we had moved to a slightly larger house.

Other than that, looking at the calendar for Billing Aquadrome, we would be there for the show and shine - probably tomorrow though as Sundays are the bigger days in the UK.

Ditto, well apart from the motorbike racing. I'd probably be pottering about instead, most likely in a shed.

Sounds like a typical weekend here in Ottawa, except it would be Tim Hortons for brunch.

It is, although I also killed about 18 flies in my kitchen, I guess no where's perfect

I'd go to the seaside.

hmmm, sat night....at the pub with me brother? Then a fish supper or a ruby......or with me feet up at me mam's while she douses me with endless cuppers and fig newtons....