Maz

I thought we'd already established that we've not visited yet.

Exactly that. Are you going to start being really pedantic about the use of the word "always"? 'Cos you're starting to sound like my Mum! Touché!

Jack The Lad

Oi!

You lot have a cyber cuddle. No kissing with tongues though

lardyl

Hi Ronny - luv it!!

lardyl

unless I can film it!!!

Maz

Ewwwww I'm most definitely only hetero, I'll 'ave you know, mister. LOL!!

lardyl

OK












can I have a smiley with a longer tongue please sir????

Am Loolah

Thanks for this thread Jack - Genius!!

New Zealand is crap.

We are all mad.

Finally I get the gist of what Mazi has been so backward in coming forward about!! Phew!!

Maz

Jack The Lad

I know its been a very steep learning curve for me also

lardyl

now I can go to bed, without a fish in my eye, and sleep easy.

Maz

Prefer a tomato? LOL (J/K by the way )

I swear, I don't actually need words, I can write whole posts in emotes... given the chance.

Am Loolah

That did look painful!!

yes, I'm most enlightened now. Hubby is soooo please to have a diagnosis for us all .... Mad!!! Tell us all on this site something we didn't know!!

On second thoughts - don't bother - can't cope with anymore rants - it's turning into the "Return to UK" forum!

lardyl

may I introduce you to this person's advice - skip to #14:


http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...62&postcount=1

personally I thinks he is a dummy........
but hey I am stoopeed

mazi

1. KATCHAFIRE - because they are the greatest reggae band in NZ and possibly in the universe. I didn't have to miss them for too long though as they came to London to see me!

2. Tegal/Tegel (forgotten the spelling) smoked chicken - because it is delicious and you can make a really good salad (which includes mango and plenty of spring onions) with it.

3. Stingray Bay in the Coromandel - because it's beautiful and I like stingrays. Not sure if I can really say I miss it though as I only went there once and by definition you can only miss something you have become accustomed to.

4. Our house - because it is very nice and Boyfriend and I gutted and refurbished it with our own bare hands (apart from the tiling in the en suite due to time constraints). He even made the kitchen himself - and not one of those flat pack jobs either - he really did MAKE it. Clever. Number 8 wire, you see.

5. Cinnamon on cappuccino (but don't tell the Italians) - because it's nicer than chocolate.

6. John Campbell - because he's funny as f***.

7. bro' town - same reason.

8. Cabbage trees - because they're exotic-looking, although I hate the word exotic, it has connotations of 'otherness' which is not really a good thing.

9. My friend Rachel - because she's cool, witty and intelligent.

10. That burger place I always forget the name of, the one with the burger with the peanut sauce - because it's not McDonald's.


1. The way Italian drivers pull out from the slip road of the motorway without looking or indicating.

2. The fact that I am not yet fluent in Italian.

3. The way Italians wear enormous sunglasses...in the house.

4. The clothes all being too damn small.

5. The fact that I very often need something urgently at 12.31pm and the shops are shut because it's siesta (well, pranzo actually).

6. The fact that I can't get my daft blonde eyelashes dyed here because so many of the Italian women already have dark glossy lashes and therefore do not need such trifling beauty treatments.

7. The fact that I have to pay about 4 euro for my weekly treat of an English newspaper.

8. The blasted 40 degree heat on a work day in the Summer.

9. The fact that it's so damn cheap to eat out well and very often that I am now fatter than ever.

10. My neighbour's cat which just gave my Georgie a hole in his ear.

lardyl

yes, sense and reason in all things
not that any of us has much sense --- I'm still unemployed cum self-employed......not a bad screw though, can work for 5 hours a week and earn more than the minimum wage stuff I was looking at ........