Back 20 months
May 8th 2013 | 6:49 pm
#31
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From: The Beautiful South, UK
Re: Back 20 months
Oh that is fabulous news !!!!! Good luck with every thing
You will soon be back to your old self again ,although it took me a few times of going out with my mates,as i felt like an outsider. I was once the bubbly centre of attention girl too .............and i felt like i was not" living" so to speak in Canada , and I was stagnant as i thought was the place we lived.Once i felt i belonged here again,i felt like i was HOME and a huge burden had lifted and i was ME AGAIN !!!! YEAHHHHHHHH
You will soon be back to your old self again ,although it took me a few times of going out with my mates,as i felt like an outsider. I was once the bubbly centre of attention girl too .............and i felt like i was not" living" so to speak in Canada , and I was stagnant as i thought was the place we lived.Once i felt i belonged here again,i felt like i was HOME and a huge burden had lifted and i was ME AGAIN !!!! YEAHHHHHHHH
Jun 3rd 2013 | 9:58 am
#32
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Re: Back 20 months
Yeah and to tell you the truth i have only been back 20 months,but i can hardly remember much at all about my 10 yrs on Canada. I think that tells me some thing !!! 
that there really was'nt much to remember maybe ??? I dont know, but although i dont regret going,i know my home is in the UK. I am now ME AGAIN and laughing and smiling once again
that there really was'nt much to remember maybe ??? I dont know, but although i dont regret going,i know my home is in the UK. I am now ME AGAIN and laughing and smiling once again 5 yrs this month....
how time flies when your having fun. Your above post brought a big smile, i seem to remember saying exactly the same thing ( i am me again etc)...It did take me afew months to shake off the affects of being in Canada and get ME back...but well worth it. Wish you well hun 
Jul 12th 2013 | 12:27 am
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Re: Back 20 months
"I am Me again"
How resonant is this. I have been away over three decades and hope that who I used to be is not completely lost.
........and I am also going to settle in Kendal!
There is a lovely Cumbrian man-'Tony' who has been taking daily photo's of Cumbria every single day for years. I have his pictures as a Homepage. It is so lovely to see seasons again!
I so look forward to being IN what I am currently seeing online!
How resonant is this. I have been away over three decades and hope that who I used to be is not completely lost.
........and I am also going to settle in Kendal!
There is a lovely Cumbrian man-'Tony' who has been taking daily photo's of Cumbria every single day for years. I have his pictures as a Homepage. It is so lovely to see seasons again!
I so look forward to being IN what I am currently seeing online!
Jul 12th 2013 | 7:45 pm
#34
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From: Alberta to Kendal
Re: Back 20 months
"I am Me again"
How resonant is this. I have been away over three decades and hope that who I used to be is not completely lost.
........and I am also going to settle in Kendal!
There is a lovely Cumbrian man-'Tony' who has been taking daily photo's of Cumbria every single day for years. I have his pictures as a Homepage. It is so lovely to see seasons again!
I so look forward to being IN what I am currently seeing online!
How resonant is this. I have been away over three decades and hope that who I used to be is not completely lost.
........and I am also going to settle in Kendal!
There is a lovely Cumbrian man-'Tony' who has been taking daily photo's of Cumbria every single day for years. I have his pictures as a Homepage. It is so lovely to see seasons again!
I so look forward to being IN what I am currently seeing online!
Jul 12th 2013 | 7:50 pm
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Re: Back 20 months
how do you attach a photo please? i have downloaded one but not sure if its going to work......
Jul 12th 2013 | 7:51 pm
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Jul 14th 2013 | 1:17 am
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Re: Back 20 months
Hello Cumbrian Lass, thanks for the picture!
Bliss isn't it? I enlarged it, and love the snowy whiteness of the swans downy coat.
I've been reading some sobering views on UK life, and as others have said, I balance them against the positive views. I much prefer to get both sides of the equation.
One of the things that is becoming so glaringly apparent for me is the need for so many of us to try for 'greener pastures'. That results for so very very many, in discovering that those greener pastures are just as tarnished as those we left.
I have found Australia to have some of the most blatant corruption that I have ever seen; I am stunned by it and cannot understand why there is no public outcry. I call it 'soft corruption' because it isn't hidden, and seems to be accepted as part of everyday life.
BUT:
I have heard that said by those in Canada and the US, and of course it is being said about Britain.
I have decided that this is not area; it's era; it's everywhere, and is driven by the 'greed is good' principle, and the self absorption bred by this kind of system.
Whilst no recluse, I am returning home for the countryside, for lower temperatures (yes it's getting hotter, but our summer temperatures now in Aus are regularly over 40 degrees).
During the drought a couple of years ago-when it first rained people stood looking at it; it was a phenomenon! I love rain, and know Cumbria has the highest rainfall in the UK apparently.
I will welcome the rising damp, even if it's up my darn body!
I have a scathing contempt for our over indulgent politicians here, and have little doubt it will be the same in Britain, with callous Conservative's and a Labour movement that long since deserved its voter base.
I have no illusions is what I'm saying, but would prefer to be home where I'm 'at home', and to see hedgerows, bluebells in the woods, drizzles/mist etc.,
The point is that no terrible 'illegal'/drug addict/'dole cheat'/political parasites can take that away. It's there, and will always be there until some cretin decides to press that switch and we are all blown clear out of our undies.
For a number of reasons I have learned to stretch a buck, so do not fear a lower budget-if that proves to be the case.
It does no good to see any one place as an absolute solution-particularly nowadays. This running after an ideal has led so many people to go back and forth to Aus-I'm damned if I can see how they afford it!
I am a cynical pragmatical skeptic. Any good things that happen therefore are a wonderful surprise!!
127 days to go. And counting.
Bliss isn't it? I enlarged it, and love the snowy whiteness of the swans downy coat.
I've been reading some sobering views on UK life, and as others have said, I balance them against the positive views. I much prefer to get both sides of the equation.
One of the things that is becoming so glaringly apparent for me is the need for so many of us to try for 'greener pastures'. That results for so very very many, in discovering that those greener pastures are just as tarnished as those we left.
I have found Australia to have some of the most blatant corruption that I have ever seen; I am stunned by it and cannot understand why there is no public outcry. I call it 'soft corruption' because it isn't hidden, and seems to be accepted as part of everyday life.
BUT:
I have heard that said by those in Canada and the US, and of course it is being said about Britain.
I have decided that this is not area; it's era; it's everywhere, and is driven by the 'greed is good' principle, and the self absorption bred by this kind of system.
Whilst no recluse, I am returning home for the countryside, for lower temperatures (yes it's getting hotter, but our summer temperatures now in Aus are regularly over 40 degrees).
During the drought a couple of years ago-when it first rained people stood looking at it; it was a phenomenon! I love rain, and know Cumbria has the highest rainfall in the UK apparently.
I will welcome the rising damp, even if it's up my darn body!
I have a scathing contempt for our over indulgent politicians here, and have little doubt it will be the same in Britain, with callous Conservative's and a Labour movement that long since deserved its voter base.
I have no illusions is what I'm saying, but would prefer to be home where I'm 'at home', and to see hedgerows, bluebells in the woods, drizzles/mist etc.,
The point is that no terrible 'illegal'/drug addict/'dole cheat'/political parasites can take that away. It's there, and will always be there until some cretin decides to press that switch and we are all blown clear out of our undies.
For a number of reasons I have learned to stretch a buck, so do not fear a lower budget-if that proves to be the case.
It does no good to see any one place as an absolute solution-particularly nowadays. This running after an ideal has led so many people to go back and forth to Aus-I'm damned if I can see how they afford it!
I am a cynical pragmatical skeptic. Any good things that happen therefore are a wonderful surprise!!
127 days to go. And counting.
Jul 15th 2013 | 2:15 am
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Re: Back 20 months
Hello Cumbrian Lass, thanks for the picture!
Bliss isn't it? I enlarged it, and love the snowy whiteness of the swans downy coat.
I've been reading some sobering views on UK life, and as others have said, I balance them against the positive views. I much prefer to get both sides of the equation.
One of the things that is becoming so glaringly apparent for me is the need for so many of us to try for 'greener pastures'. That results for so very very many, in discovering that those greener pastures are just as tarnished as those we left.
I have found Australia to have some of the most blatant corruption that I have ever seen; I am stunned by it and cannot understand why there is no public outcry. I call it 'soft corruption' because it isn't hidden, and seems to be accepted as part of everyday life.
BUT:
I have heard that said by those in Canada and the US, and of course it is being said about Britain.
I have decided that this is not area; it's era; it's everywhere, and is driven by the 'greed is good' principle, and the self absorption bred by this kind of system.
Whilst no recluse, I am returning home for the countryside, for lower temperatures (yes it's getting hotter, but our summer temperatures now in Aus are regularly over 40 degrees).
During the drought a couple of years ago-when it first rained people stood looking at it; it was a phenomenon! I love rain, and know Cumbria has the highest rainfall in the UK apparently.
I will welcome the rising damp, even if it's up my darn body!
I have a scathing contempt for our over indulgent politicians here, and have little doubt it will be the same in Britain, with callous Conservative's and a Labour movement that long since deserved its voter base.
I have no illusions is what I'm saying, but would prefer to be home where I'm 'at home', and to see hedgerows, bluebells in the woods, drizzles/mist etc.,
The point is that no terrible 'illegal'/drug addict/'dole cheat'/political parasites can take that away. It's there, and will always be there until some cretin decides to press that switch and we are all blown clear out of our undies.
For a number of reasons I have learned to stretch a buck, so do not fear a lower budget-if that proves to be the case.
It does no good to see any one place as an absolute solution-particularly nowadays. This running after an ideal has led so many people to go back and forth to Aus-I'm damned if I can see how they afford it!
I am a cynical pragmatical skeptic. Any good things that happen therefore are a wonderful surprise!!
127 days to go. And counting.
Bliss isn't it? I enlarged it, and love the snowy whiteness of the swans downy coat.
I've been reading some sobering views on UK life, and as others have said, I balance them against the positive views. I much prefer to get both sides of the equation.
One of the things that is becoming so glaringly apparent for me is the need for so many of us to try for 'greener pastures'. That results for so very very many, in discovering that those greener pastures are just as tarnished as those we left.
I have found Australia to have some of the most blatant corruption that I have ever seen; I am stunned by it and cannot understand why there is no public outcry. I call it 'soft corruption' because it isn't hidden, and seems to be accepted as part of everyday life.
BUT:
I have heard that said by those in Canada and the US, and of course it is being said about Britain.
I have decided that this is not area; it's era; it's everywhere, and is driven by the 'greed is good' principle, and the self absorption bred by this kind of system.
Whilst no recluse, I am returning home for the countryside, for lower temperatures (yes it's getting hotter, but our summer temperatures now in Aus are regularly over 40 degrees).
During the drought a couple of years ago-when it first rained people stood looking at it; it was a phenomenon! I love rain, and know Cumbria has the highest rainfall in the UK apparently.
I will welcome the rising damp, even if it's up my darn body!
I have a scathing contempt for our over indulgent politicians here, and have little doubt it will be the same in Britain, with callous Conservative's and a Labour movement that long since deserved its voter base.
I have no illusions is what I'm saying, but would prefer to be home where I'm 'at home', and to see hedgerows, bluebells in the woods, drizzles/mist etc.,
The point is that no terrible 'illegal'/drug addict/'dole cheat'/political parasites can take that away. It's there, and will always be there until some cretin decides to press that switch and we are all blown clear out of our undies.
For a number of reasons I have learned to stretch a buck, so do not fear a lower budget-if that proves to be the case.
It does no good to see any one place as an absolute solution-particularly nowadays. This running after an ideal has led so many people to go back and forth to Aus-I'm damned if I can see how they afford it!
I am a cynical pragmatical skeptic. Any good things that happen therefore are a wonderful surprise!!
127 days to go. And counting.
Jul 15th 2013 | 6:30 am
#40
Sloopy Frickenbutt
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Jul 15th 2013 | 7:08 pm
#43
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Re: Back 20 months
Bless ya My OH works in and around London he's fryin 
( he not a happy bunny)......Looked at Cumbria....too expensive for us...On the other hand West Coast of Scotland is more do able....Just tryin to find the bottle to leave North Linc's again 
My OH works in and around London he's fryin ( he not a happy bunny)......Looked at Cumbria....too expensive for us...On the other hand West Coast of Scotland is more do able....Just tryin to find the bottle to leave North Linc's again
Jul 15th 2013 | 7:13 pm
#44
Sloopy Frickenbutt
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