The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Mar 4th 2013, 8:17 pm
#16
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Safe travels ! I'm so excited for you..and as a Wigan lass myself I know how you feel. I too left in 1969..did you leave on a ship or fly? We actually sailed from Southampton to Western Australian on the Oriana way back when..lol
Mar 4th 2013, 8:25 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
In honour of your move to the most excellent of the shires ( except for Yorkshire of course) thought you might like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfS97WcRwI
Hope your move goes really well. (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfS97WcRwI
Hope your move goes really well. (:
Mar 4th 2013, 8:27 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
In honour of your move to the most excellent of the shires ( except for Yorkshire of course) thought you might like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfS97WcRwI
Hope your move goes really well. (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfS97WcRwI
Hope your move goes really well. (:
Mar 4th 2013, 10:40 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Just a quick update:
38: The number of days before I retire..
80: The number of days before I get on a plane to blighty.....
81: The number of days before I am sat in the snug of the Sawley Arms eating rare roast beef with yorkshire pud and washing it down with a coupla pints of real ale.....
After that, we are going to buy a car and caravan and spend a coupla years beach combing and basically driving from Manchester to Burnley via Morrocco, Crete, Bodram and St Petersburgh with a coupla thousand places in between......
And then? aaaaah whatever!!
38: The number of days before I retire..
80: The number of days before I get on a plane to blighty.....
81: The number of days before I am sat in the snug of the Sawley Arms eating rare roast beef with yorkshire pud and washing it down with a coupla pints of real ale.....
After that, we are going to buy a car and caravan and spend a coupla years beach combing and basically driving from Manchester to Burnley via Morrocco, Crete, Bodram and St Petersburgh with a coupla thousand places in between......
And then? aaaaah whatever!!
Brilliant!! Love to hear how it all goes! Im off in two weeks but Ive only been here 7 years.... All the very best to you!!
Mar 4th 2013, 10:42 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
PS
3.5 days left at work
16 days till I fly out
17 days till Im sat in The Jolly Taxpayer having a vino with mum and Auntie Moo!!
3.5 days left at work
16 days till I fly out
17 days till Im sat in The Jolly Taxpayer having a vino with mum and Auntie Moo!!
Mar 4th 2013, 10:52 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Flew into Essendon airport the year before they opened Tullamarine..
My first thoughts as a twelve year old...
Where's Skippy?, I expected to see kangaroos hopping alongside the plane.
Yellow blocks in the bottom of the mens urinal. Never seen em' before and thought the bloke who had been in there before me needed ta see a doctor...
Getting on a tram, buying a ticket and telling the conductor to (seriously) "keep the change"
Thinking Australians had a speech impediment because everytime they said my name (John) it came out as Pom.
Mar 4th 2013, 10:57 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Bless ya little cotton socks... good luck and have one for me will ya...
Mar 4th 2013, 11:00 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Aaaah, upper crust we were
Flew into Essendon airport the year before they opened Tullamarine..
My first thoughts as a twelve year old...
Where's Skippy?, I expected to see kangaroos hopping alongside the plane.
Yellow blocks in the bottom of the mens urinal. Never seen em' before and thought the bloke who had been in there before me needed ta see a doctor...
Getting on a tram, buying a ticket and telling the conductor to (seriously) "keep the change"
Thinking Australians had a speech impediment because everytime they said my name (John) it came out as Pom.
Flew into Essendon airport the year before they opened Tullamarine..
My first thoughts as a twelve year old...
Where's Skippy?, I expected to see kangaroos hopping alongside the plane.
Yellow blocks in the bottom of the mens urinal. Never seen em' before and thought the bloke who had been in there before me needed ta see a doctor...
Getting on a tram, buying a ticket and telling the conductor to (seriously) "keep the change"
Thinking Australians had a speech impediment because everytime they said my name (John) it came out as Pom.
. Even now I still get asked if kangaroos hop free in the streets and koalas are up every telephone pole lol
Mar 4th 2013, 11:35 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Aaaah, upper crust we were
Flew into Essendon airport the year before they opened Tullamarine..
My first thoughts as a twelve year old...
Where's Skippy?, I expected to see kangaroos hopping alongside the plane.
Yellow blocks in the bottom of the mens urinal. Never seen em' before and thought the bloke who had been in there before me needed ta see a doctor...
Getting on a tram, buying a ticket and telling the conductor to (seriously) "keep the change"
Thinking Australians had a speech impediment because everytime they said my name (John) it came out as Pom.
Flew into Essendon airport the year before they opened Tullamarine..
My first thoughts as a twelve year old...
Where's Skippy?, I expected to see kangaroos hopping alongside the plane.
Yellow blocks in the bottom of the mens urinal. Never seen em' before and thought the bloke who had been in there before me needed ta see a doctor...
Getting on a tram, buying a ticket and telling the conductor to (seriously) "keep the change"
Thinking Australians had a speech impediment because everytime they said my name (John) it came out as Pom.
Hope you have an amazing time both back in Blighty and in Europe, keep counting down! Me? After today 42 shifts to go - woo hoo!
Wishing you safe and happy travels!
Mar 5th 2013, 12:22 am
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Thank you one and all for your good wishes...
Course you realise that the other side of the coin is that I am driving the missus nut's by talking like a reject from a 1950' "Carry On" film saying things like...
"ere luv, am joost poppin' up t'pub fer a quick un, it'd be reet grand if'n yer'd loike ter cum along n' aaaaarl buy yer a half"
I'm thinking of buying myself a cloth cap and makin a right berk o' meself..
Course you realise that the other side of the coin is that I am driving the missus nut's by talking like a reject from a 1950' "Carry On" film saying things like...
"ere luv, am joost poppin' up t'pub fer a quick un, it'd be reet grand if'n yer'd loike ter cum along n' aaaaarl buy yer a half"
I'm thinking of buying myself a cloth cap and makin a right berk o' meself..
Mar 5th 2013, 2:30 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Thank you one and all for your good wishes...
Course you realise that the other side of the coin is that I am driving the missus nut's by talking like a reject from a 1950' "Carry On" film saying things like...
"ere luv, am joost poppin' up t'pub fer a quick un, it'd be reet grand if'n yer'd loike ter cum along n' aaaaarl buy yer a half"
I'm thinking of buying myself a cloth cap and makin a right berk o' meself..
Course you realise that the other side of the coin is that I am driving the missus nut's by talking like a reject from a 1950' "Carry On" film saying things like...
"ere luv, am joost poppin' up t'pub fer a quick un, it'd be reet grand if'n yer'd loike ter cum along n' aaaaarl buy yer a half"
I'm thinking of buying myself a cloth cap and makin a right berk o' meself..
Now that would make a good 'You Tube' moment.
Mar 5th 2013, 2:33 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Someone sent this to me the other day....and as I'm a Wigan lass I thought I'd share it....makes me homesick!
http://youtu.be/1_cnZs_5Uqw
http://youtu.be/1_cnZs_5Uqw
Mar 9th 2013, 2:36 am
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
Someone sent this to me the other day....and as I'm a Wigan lass I thought I'd share it....makes me homesick!
http://youtu.be/1_cnZs_5Uqw
http://youtu.be/1_cnZs_5Uqw
Mar 9th 2013, 2:31 pm
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Re: The Ten Quid Pom Returns
I know everyone was still having a ball dressing up on Boxing Day 2011, so I would presume it was still going on this past year too. It's such a fun thing and been going on for too long now to suddenly stop.