back in uk
Jan 29th 2007 | 8:04 pm
#136
Banned
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Posts: 1,177
From: Godzone, utopia, Paradise Island under the sun.
Jan 29th 2007 | 8:05 pm
#137
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Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 599
From: Dorset
Re: back in uk
That is so well put! I identify with your every word. I also come from Dorset, as it seems, do quite a lot of people on this forum. We lived in Wimborne, and I am hopeful that we will live there again before too long. When we were back at Christmas and met up with almost every one of our friends, I thought "How and why ?? did I walk away from all this!!" Must've been made, but I guess the lesson learnt is to look at everything you've got and appreciate it more, rather than move to the other side of the world to find something 'better'. The only thing I will really miss is the sea! It is mindblowingly beautiful in Perth, but the rest is mindnumbingly dull! Where in Dorset are you from?
Jan 30th 2007 | 3:42 am
#140
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Posts: 176
Re: back in uk
mmmmm, bet LPP never been to uk either. had his brain removed and replaced with Oz is best drivel.
Only joking
Jan 30th 2007 | 9:27 am
#142
Living the nightmare
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 394
From: In my dreams
Re: back in uk
We've got some sort of spikey, brown stuff which was green when we moved here and I reckon the previous owners spray painted the colour on cos it's all gone now
Jan 30th 2007 | 9:28 am
#143
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 511
Re: back in uk
Well, yes, it is a bit more like "scrub", but whatever it is, you can see a long 12 inch slit of it!!!!
Jan 30th 2007 | 9:44 am
#144
Banned
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Posts: 441
From: knuckle dragging, cultureless, boring, dingo oblivion
Re: back in uk
Based on his spelling I'd say that was pretty accurate. Definite signs of an Antipodean 'erudition'.
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:09 am
#146
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 511
Re: back in uk
Wombat42 to be exact.
Here you go.....page down to post #74 and there's your man...
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=325816&page=5
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:11 am
#147
Living the nightmare
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 394
From: In my dreams
Re: back in uk
We have some huge gaps in the mortar around the windows which you would expect to have sealant around, but no, just lots of nice holes for wasps and bugs to live in. I asked a friend about it and he said "yeah, standard stuff here, you need it to keep the air flowing"
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:13 am
#148
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 511
Re: back in uk
I think it's called air conditioning here
We have some huge gaps in the mortar around the windows which you would expect to have sealant around, but no, just lots of nice holes for wasps and bugs to live in. I asked a friend about it and he said "yeah, standard stuff here, you need it to keep the air flowing"
We have some huge gaps in the mortar around the windows which you would expect to have sealant around, but no, just lots of nice holes for wasps and bugs to live in. I asked a friend about it and he said "yeah, standard stuff here, you need it to keep the air flowing"
What gets me are the plug sockets next to the sink
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:25 am
#149
Just Joined
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 10
Re: back in uk
well I moved back to the Uk after 2 years in Barbados and 11 years in Sedona Arizona and I gotta tell you it is the best thing I have ever done,I timed it so I could at least have a good summer first before winter set in and I have not regretted it.It was a little strange on the job front cos its a new system now, you have to first of all lucky to be selected for a phone interview then if you pass that then you get a face to face interview and then wait for a few weeks until you may or may not hear from them.
Contrary to what everyone believes living in the USA is not what its cracked up to be. I paid a lot in taxes and also had health insurance which cost me a fortune every month and unfortunately feel ill with the dreaded Cancer, still ended up paying over $12,00 of my own money, and also if it wasnt for family help would have lost the house.
Back where my heart has always been and loving every minute of it.
clare
Contrary to what everyone believes living in the USA is not what its cracked up to be. I paid a lot in taxes and also had health insurance which cost me a fortune every month and unfortunately feel ill with the dreaded Cancer, still ended up paying over $12,00 of my own money, and also if it wasnt for family help would have lost the house.
Back where my heart has always been and loving every minute of it.
clare
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:37 am
#150
Living the nightmare
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 394
From: In my dreams
Re: back in uk
well I moved back to the Uk after 2 years in Barbados and 11 years in Sedona Arizona and I gotta tell you it is the best thing I have ever done,I timed it so I could at least have a good summer first before winter set in and I have not regretted it.It was a little strange on the job front cos its a new system now, you have to first of all lucky to be selected for a phone interview then if you pass that then you get a face to face interview and then wait for a few weeks until you may or may not hear from them.
Contrary to what everyone believes living in the USA is not what its cracked up to be. I paid a lot in taxes and also had health insurance which cost me a fortune every month and unfortunately feel ill with the dreaded Cancer, still ended up paying over $12,00 of my own money, and also if it wasnt for family help would have lost the house.
Back where my heart has always been and loving every minute of it.
clare
Contrary to what everyone believes living in the USA is not what its cracked up to be. I paid a lot in taxes and also had health insurance which cost me a fortune every month and unfortunately feel ill with the dreaded Cancer, still ended up paying over $12,00 of my own money, and also if it wasnt for family help would have lost the house.
Back where my heart has always been and loving every minute of it.
clare
