What do You Miss About the UK?
#46
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
Crumpets, Special K with red berries, Bisto gravy, Milky Bars, jacket potatoes, parsnips - mostly food!
Also was nice to go for a long walk and not be soaked in sweat after 10 minutes.
Overall though I much prefer it here, healthcare is second to none, food is fantastic (but still miss my few favourites) and it is nice to have constant warm weather but could do with a little less humidity.
I will be coming home mid April for good and I'm quite sad to leave here as loved every minute of my 2 + years but on the other hand I am looking forward to a bit of normality! People here are interesting to say the least!
Also was nice to go for a long walk and not be soaked in sweat after 10 minutes.
Overall though I much prefer it here, healthcare is second to none, food is fantastic (but still miss my few favourites) and it is nice to have constant warm weather but could do with a little less humidity.
I will be coming home mid April for good and I'm quite sad to leave here as loved every minute of my 2 + years but on the other hand I am looking forward to a bit of normality! People here are interesting to say the least!
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#47
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I miss listening to the black birds in the evening or early morning. I miss being able to talk to strangers without them thinking i am a crazy person( i have lived in Sweden for 20yrs, you do not talk to someone you do not know), most of all i miss my family and being able to pop round my mums or sisters for a chat. Only 8 more months to go.
#48
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I miss the feeling of having a "collective" experience.
OK it may be somewhat of a myth but when something like the Olympics opening ceremony is on you feel as if the whole country is watching it at the same time.
I miss that so much.
(And the Olympics coverage was really really bad here in the US)
OK it may be somewhat of a myth but when something like the Olympics opening ceremony is on you feel as if the whole country is watching it at the same time.
I miss that so much.
(And the Olympics coverage was really really bad here in the US)
#49
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I miss listening to the black birds in the evening or early morning. I miss being able to talk to strangers without them thinking i am a crazy person( i have lived in Sweden for 20yrs, you do not talk to someone you do not know), most of all i miss my family and being able to pop round my mums or sisters for a chat. Only 8 more months to go.
I totally agree when I was home last month I loved waking up to the birds singing - maybe the birds here are just like the people here they dont want to talk lol I miss being out and about and people just randomly chatting to you. Here in upstate NY I can go a whole day out and no one will talk to me. It is a very lonely place I am so homesick today so everything seems 100 times worse than it actually is.
#50
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I am always amazed when people on BE say British people are cold and unfriendly, strangers there always seem happy to chat. I do miss that.
#51
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I was only 12 when I left but my father was a baker... so I miss opening a hot muffin (dinner plate size) and slathering butter and jam on it.
I also miss eccles cakes, little hovis loaves, tizer and hot sarsparilla.
I miss the food!!! even if some of it was rubbish.
I also miss eccles cakes, little hovis loaves, tizer and hot sarsparilla.
I miss the food!!! even if some of it was rubbish.
#52
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I totally agree when I was home last month I loved waking up to the birds singing - maybe the birds here are just like the people here they dont want to talk lol I miss being out and about and people just randomly chatting to you. Here in upstate NY I can go a whole day out and no one will talk to me. It is a very lonely place I am so homesick today so everything seems 100 times worse than it actually is.
#53
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
The humour- I have often been told I am "flippant" over here, they dont get my humour at all.
The infrastructure-works!!
Popping down the road for a cup of tea with family!
The infrastructure-works!!
Popping down the road for a cup of tea with family!
#54
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I totally agree when I was home last month I loved waking up to the birds singing - maybe the birds here are just like the people here they dont want to talk lol I miss being out and about and people just randomly chatting to you. Here in upstate NY I can go a whole day out and no one will talk to me. It is a very lonely place I am so homesick today so everything seems 100 times worse than it actually is.
#55
Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I totally agree when I was home last month I loved waking up to the birds singing - maybe the birds here are just like the people here they dont want to talk lol I miss being out and about and people just randomly chatting to you. Here in upstate NY I can go a whole day out and no one will talk to me. It is a very lonely place I am so homesick today so everything seems 100 times worse than it actually is.
He said, "Where do you know her from?"
She said, "I don't know her"
He was amazed that they had just had this long conversation without knowing each other. My experience has been similar to others on here. chatting to strangers is commonplace in the UK. I think the car culture and front drive garages plays a part in the Cdn experience.
Also, I remember in cafe's that you would quite happily share a table with a stranger, when the place was busy. Only once did that ever happen to me in Canada - in Tim Horton's.
#56
Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
Me too! I miss ALL the noisy birds in my back garden in England, the doves with their gentle hoots, the grackles gabbling away endlessly, all the tweets & twitters that were going on all day long, even in the dead of winter.
My garden here in the US is too quiet! Just a few chickadees now and again that break the silence. I'm hoping spring will be noisier.
My garden here in the US is too quiet! Just a few chickadees now and again that break the silence. I'm hoping spring will be noisier.
#57
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
Breezy summer days with the wind rustling through the trees...football...pubs...football...going into town...football...going to the beach...football...driving a car with a manual gearbox..oh and did i mention football
#58
Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/crumpets_93122
#59
Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
We are having a rare breezy, rainy day here in Florida, and I absolutely love it And though I did not take advantage of going to too many matches when I had the chance, I must say I miss cricket (or maybe that's because they played it on Downton Abby)
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Re: What do You Miss About the UK?
I always remember after i had lived in Sweden for 15 years , it was early morning and my shopping bag broke, as I was one of the only early birds out there was nobody about, i started to pick my shopping up. A lady came past and asked if i was ok, Yes no worries i said, she left.Then after 5 minutes she came back took all her things from a plastic bag and gave it to me.I remember crying on my way home because it was the first time a random person had spoken to me and was so kind.When i go home for holidays to England people chat to me all the time and give advise and help they are total strangers.
I come from the midlands the old shoe industry, one old shop owner said to me once that in our town we were all so friendly because we were all factory workers together years ago and that openness has just carried on.
I just want to return to my roots,the older i get the more i want to go home.
Ok I have been rambling on a bit.......
I come from the midlands the old shoe industry, one old shop owner said to me once that in our town we were all so friendly because we were all factory workers together years ago and that openness has just carried on.
I just want to return to my roots,the older i get the more i want to go home.
Ok I have been rambling on a bit.......