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Hi D

I studied horticulture many years ago. From memory bulbs need to be stored or in the ground below a certain temperature for a period of weeks to enable flourishing growth. In UK they automatically get it in the ground during our winter season.

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You're right....ideally they should be planted the previous September/October so they establish a good root system during the winter months. I am always amazed at how mine survive through the bitter cold winter months here, then push their way through in April; I've planted mini- daffs, crocus and grape hyacinth in the lawn under a huge cut-leaf maple, and they look so pretty. My neighbours thought I was completely mad when they saw me merrily digging holes in the lawn.....but who's laughing now! :D

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Wow, i bet it looks lovely. I so so miss the spring bulbs.

In fact you have just reminded me of the carpet of gorgeous smelling lily of the valley that my dad planted in the lawn below my bedroom window as a child. I would wake every morning to the most amazing smell. I'm gonna make it my first plant purchase when i get back home

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Hi

A couple of photo taken last weekend from my garden. Spring flowers look so nice this time of the year in England. Daffodils are starting to open as well.

This is one of the nice aspects of returning to England, we have flowers in the garden most of the year and not burrried under snow for 6 months of the year when we lived in Canada.

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Aah, what a lovely thing to do, posting these wonderful pics:thumbsup: I'm sure Flea definitely approves. Flea, what a lovely thing your father did for you planting the flowers right below your window:wub:

I just popped in to see if there were any replies, and wow I love the way this thread is going. I'll have to come back a bit later and read all of your replies when I have more time. Thanks guys:):D:)

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*sigh*

homesick again now. Thankyou for the pics.

I cannot remember the last time i saw snow drops. The primula reminded me of the big tubs i used to make up outside my front door with all the lovely colours. :wub:

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Fabulous......I hope Spring is still in springing when I arrive on 3rd March...thanks for sharing :)

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Excellent thread:

For me seeing;
mum
son
grand-daughter (four next week)
stepson
sisters
brother
neices
nephews
Friends friend friends friends friends friends
having a chat over wine
dropping by for a cup of tea
just bumping into someone you know in Asda....

knowing where you are, where you are going and how to get there!

Just knowing that you belong..........:o:wub:

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I thoroughly agree with all of the foregoing comments. I went back to London (and the rest of the British Isles) in 2004, for my first visit since coming to Canada in 1987. Whilst I enjoyed my 4 week stay, I was glad to get home to Saskatchewan. Now I have days of home sickness that I never had before my last visit, but this is what keeps me here: I think of all the reasons why I left the old country in the first place, and considering what I saw during my visit, I will be staying put. I hope you accept this as positive, as a reversal of all you have endured over the years, is a mighty big move. Good luck with your decision.

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I personally admire any one who makes a new country home; good luck. :wub:

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Hi sweet ;) You know when people stop to chat its because they really want too. I guess the feeling you belong with people you trust......you know real people with in your face ups and downs. Ham, good old fashion knees ups in your local pubs etc etc :p

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That genuine warmth and humour and friendliness that is well known for being - scottish. The smiles and the care and concern from strangers.

You can walk up Suchiehall St and not be scared - coz this is YOUR home and nothing scares you there, you've grown up there - even the neds are funny!
The ability to laugh at oursleves and to laugh at others and them not be offended!
The cold, the rain and the heat and cosiness of life indoors.

Need anything else?

I'm from Glasgow BTW.

*pearly*

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I'm the same, all our neighbors drive to the nice downtown where I live and I enjoy the 20 minute walk or I'll bike down.

Me two, I really miss the countryside being so close there really is nothing like it in the Chicago area.

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You just said it all! :thumbup:

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I wish I could take the weather in the US, the culture and friendliness of people in the UK (with the exception of chavs), the optimism of people in the US, earn the British pound and spend the US dollar, get some decent food that is tasty without it being either a health hazard or too expensive and that would be my ideal country, lol!! :D
For the most part though, I miss the UK big time. Especially at Christmas. When I think back to the UK, I think of Christmas time. Why, I do not know. Just the thought of curling up in front of a real fire, watching repeats of The Two Ronnies Christmas specials on TV with a massive box of Cadbury's Roses, surrounded by family while it's dark, raining hard and blowing a gale outside just warms me inside :D

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Hi sans - how's it going?

I am so glad I started this thread. I want to reply to every single one of you, but the essay replies I usually write would go on forever and you'd all get bored with me (or maybe you already are ha, ha;)). My dream job would be as a writer - for some odd reason I love the English language and absolutely loved writing papers for college (usually the night before they were due, loved that deadline thing:wink_smile:).

Okay, got a bit off-topic there - let's get back on it.............

When I go home to Scotland, which is usually at Christmas time, I am always amazed at how beautiful the countryside is when flying into the airport. Can't beat the view from Glasgow airport when landing, it is so dreamy - the mountains, the lochs, the heather - it is so beautiful:wub:. It is easier for me to fly into Edinburgh (for the people picking me up), but I must admit the view out of that wee window in the plane on landing at Glasgow is magnificent. I get so excited when I see the awe-inspiring view.

The Highlands of Scotland are definitely my most favorite place to visit; I always feel like time has stood still and I can 'feel' the history from bygone days. It is a very emotional feeling - and that's a lot coming from me, as I am not the emotional type.

I miss the familiarity of my family, my hometown, the green rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. The sheer amount of sheep, horses, cows, even pigs etc that I see as I drive into my hometown. I absolutely love seeing them. It gives the place a feeling of vibrancy that I definitely don't get here. You have to drive forever to find the countryside, never mind a tiny wee hill. Where I live it is very flat. And, I can remember thinking - 'what the hell, this place is as flat as a pancake' when I first arrived. It was more the people that kept me here for 20 years rather than the place.

I miss British TV, British food, British people, British humour, British spelling even - oh do I miss that. It's so weird writing one way for the Americans and then reverting back to the British way of spelling when I am e-mailing or writing to my family and friends back home. I am a school teacher, and I have a slight Scottish accent left right now (hoping it will be back to a strong Scottish accent soon.......after I get home) and have to adjust the way of pronouncing words, especially those pesky vowels that the Americans have changed for some reason:blink::sneaky::D

The absolute crucial thing for me is the sense of belonging that I feel in Scotland. I have never felt that here in the US. I just want to go home. Don't really hate it here. I have enjoyed my time here, and the friendships I have, but it is time to go back home. Scotland is calling.............:D:wub:

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oldbag

This was taken this afternoon Daffodils in our village, near the Green.

hudd

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Hi sweet ;) i think you have pretty much answered your own thread there:rofl: And probably answered it alot better than anyone else could.......expecially me :lol:
Your heart and your head is already there, just need to get your butt there too:p
I dare not off load on here ;) i would upset to many peeps i think :lol: with my bluntness :D
After reading your post, you have sure made me want to checkout Scotland ;) Which would please OH, he loves it. xxx

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Right on the button - I think the last 15 minutes of a transAtlantic flight to Glasgow on a clear day has probably the best scenery I've seen flying into any airport. :thumbsup:

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I'm from deepest ,darkest Glasgow and I'd say I still have a strong weegie accent even tho I left Glasgow in 1997 to work all over the place.

One thing I WON'T miss about Oz is them saying "so where about's in Ireland are you from"?

I gave up explaining myself a long time ago and now just say "Glasgow".
They don't even get it when I say that!!!

Grraaaaghhhhhhh!!!!!!

It's gotta be the one thing that REALLY WINDS ME up, as petty as it may sound.

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Dunroving - I normally request an aisle seat, so I can come and go how I please (I never sleep anyway on an overnight flight). But I started requesting a window seat when I fly into Glasgow as I never want to miss that view - spectacular:thumbsup:

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I get that all the time - the question about me being from Ireland. I've also given up explaining, because to be honest not many Americans have a clue where Scotland is, unless of course they golf. And, that 'oh my' has to be at St. Andrew's. But, I personally think that the American golfers fly over to St. Andrew's, hit the golf course and maybe a few others, and think that is the entire country anyway!!!!:eek:

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Ah, go on, I would love to hear your bluntness;) Being Scottish I can be extremely blunt, as I have been told by my American friends. Another thing, to add to the list, Americans that I know, do not get my dry British humour, most of the time they think I'm being serious when I'm only joking:o

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Having lived in mainly non-English speaking countries, you dont know how lovely it is to be 'home' where you can have a simple pleasant verbal exchange in the shops, have people understand and laugh at your jokes and understand the nuances of the English language. I live in China now and although I am trying to learn Mandarin, we live in a cocoon (in the expat community) as we cannot converse with the locals. So it's not really 'living':unsure:

We dont know if we are going to the UK, still waiting on the finer details of my husbands contract in the next few weeks. I sure hope we will.:)

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Oh i have had a few moments on ex-pats, problem is those dam long posh words they throw at you :rofl: you know when certain peeps are trying to belittle you with insults, expecially when your getting the upper hand.:lol:

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For me and my family the positive about moving back is simply because it's Home!
OZ is not and will never be home...and we are simply far too English to stay long term.

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Going on Friday Toronto to Manchester; via Glasgow, totally agree with the view, much better into Glasgow than Manchester; but Yorkshire is home, so thats were we are heading - HOME :wub:

Hills and sheep and quant pubs and narrow lanes and no parking and hustle and bustle - not big flat open spaces, the fields dont even have fences here!!!!! Oh yes and GREEN, not white, I do miss Green! :rofl:

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Hi the other thing I was thinking of as well is occassions and events are better being back home such as:


Christmas
Birthdays
Easter, yummier chocolate over here (Aussie stuff has anti melt ingredient in it)
Traditional events such as Burns suppers, Bonfire night,St Patricks night etc- the only comparable events I can think of in Aus is Australia day which meant a load of pissed teenagers fighting at the foreshore or Melbourne Cup (yawn!)


It's so good to be home!!

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Cool summers and mild winters. After living in Virginia for years the summer can get too hot and I hate the winter here as it is sooo COLD.

I miss the beautiful gardens, hanging baskets, and going out during the summer months on Sunday; sitting outside a beautiful country pub, sipping a wine or beer, eating fish n chips with mushy peas. British sweets and chocolate.

The great city of London, and amazing stores like Harrods.

And of course family and friends.

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ooooooohhhhhh...I want to go home now!!!!!! :thumbup:

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Wow, I cannot believe you have said that. :ohmy:
I have been wondering about this for a while now but not really had the guts to say it to anyone. I feel so much more English here then I ever did back in the UK. Am I too English to accept another country as my home? Only time will tell I suppose.
Cheers
Matt

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This isn't an anti UK post and I'm not trying to have a go at the OP but just think that these are sweeping generalisations that do not particularily apply to the UK any more than anywhere else. They depend entirely on the type of area that you are in or what the people you are mixing with are like etc.To me there is good and bad in most places and what should be important is where you personally are happiest. To most of the posters on this thread its the UK but for me its Australia. This however does not mean that one is better or worse than the other but simply different and I don't understand the need to knock the other that many posters seem to have.

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Because that is my experience and that is how i feel. Simple as that.

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The thing is - a lot of the MBTUK posters feel free to express their frustrations about the country they have moved to on this particular forum because IDEALLY they don't have people present who LOVE the place that the MBTUK posters are trying to get away from!

There is nothing worse than people trying to pee on your decsion to move back when it's all you want to do. Although trying to make you feel bad about your decision comes a close second especially when they slate your reasons for loving "home".

The MBTUK forum can be a sanctuary for some and it should be nurtured and maintained for those people who feel lost,alone,sad,frustrated or regretful so that they can say what they need to and talk about their "home" if that is what makes them happiest.

*pearly*

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Ahh well. I guess we did pretty well to go 5 pages before someone came in eh? :)

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You should say exactly what you feel...it helps...alot;) afterall, this is the positivethread.

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Bloody well said, if I may say so!!:thumbsup:

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Was only a matter of time. ;) Ssssh, I think they've gone now.

x

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Going back after you've spent a number of years away can be like emigrating a second time. Sometimes, too, you find that the country you are leaving has 'grown' onto you. You just don't realize how much until you are back 'home' That is perhaps where the 'boomerang Poms' come from?

I've been back in England for twelve years now after eighteen in Sydney although I am living a few miles away from the village where I grew up. I have very few links with that village now.

I like living in a village surrounded by countryside and I've made new friends both in the village and at work. However, I've got family in Sydney and none here and I'm thinking of returning to OZ for that reason. I just can't bear the thought of resigning from my job after twelve years. I'm plucking up my courage to ask for a 'career break - unpaid leave' so I can see how I go, emigrating for a third time. If I get knocked back for my career break then it means that I've got to make a big decision, something that I always find hard.

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They probably prefer cool summers and not the hot hot heat we get here in the Southern States. I too have still yet to see my tulips do well but my mini daffs are ok. I know lupines were prized in my Mum's gardens in Cornwall. I think the bulbs and certain flowers like places where the summers are cool. On the other hand my lillies are magnificent here whereas in my families gardens in Cornwall they are ok but nothing like my ones which are five feet tall. The vegetables are the same. You can only grow the (cool season ones) carrots, spinach, lettuce, leeks in the early Spring and fall months here and they die off during the hot summer but then egg plants, peppers ect love the heat.