Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Nov 27th 2010, 6:28 pm
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Where would you rather be at the moment ...
... here (we're in Dubai) or back in the UK (if that's your home country)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
Nov 28th 2010, 1:40 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Back in my own home in UK, for definite.
Like I wrote on a similar thread:
Near friends and family who know me, and where I feel like I am living in my own country rather than a visitor in someone elses
Mind you after a while I might be trying to get back out I guess
Like I wrote on a similar thread:
Near friends and family who know me, and where I feel like I am living in my own country rather than a visitor in someone elses
Mind you after a while I might be trying to get back out I guess
Nov 28th 2010, 3:08 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
... here (we're in Dubai) or back in the UK (if that's your home country)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
that said, it did get a bit chilly.
Nov 28th 2010, 3:41 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
I'm actually one of these strange people who like the cold...
Nov 28th 2010, 3:46 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
UK for me
Nov 28th 2010, 3:57 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Here - the weather here is lovely at the moment.
Agreed - the snow in the UK looks great, but if you're working there and have to travel in it to work, the novelty soon wears off.
I'll be going back for Christmas/New Year this year and am really looking forward to it, but I'll be glad to get back here, to where I consider to be home (albeit temporarily).
Agreed - the snow in the UK looks great, but if you're working there and have to travel in it to work, the novelty soon wears off.
I'll be going back for Christmas/New Year this year and am really looking forward to it, but I'll be glad to get back here, to where I consider to be home (albeit temporarily).
Nov 28th 2010, 4:08 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
I agree with you about the sofas, hot chocolate and TV, but you can do that here now... it's fleece time for sure...
Snow is only fun for about 30minutes, then you realise you have to dig the car out, walk to the train station, nothing works anymore - then it gets dirty and looks crap.
I phone home to my parents who are struggling to heat their houses - sod that.
I'm not going back this winter... the rest of the gang probably are but I'm staying put. I'm like a gecko - I need the warmth.
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Nov 28th 2010, 4:25 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Head says here, heart says home.
Nov 28th 2010, 5:35 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
I agree with you about the sofas, hot chocolate and TV, but you can do that here now... it's fleece time for sure...
Snow is only fun for about 30minutes, then you realise you have to dig the car out, walk to the train station, nothing works anymore - then it gets dirty and looks crap.
I phone home to my parents who are struggling to heat their houses - sod that.
I'm not going back this winter... the rest of the gang probably are but I'm staying put. I'm like a gecko - I need the warmth.
Snow is only fun for about 30minutes, then you realise you have to dig the car out, walk to the train station, nothing works anymore - then it gets dirty and looks crap.
I phone home to my parents who are struggling to heat their houses - sod that.
I'm not going back this winter... the rest of the gang probably are but I'm staying put. I'm like a gecko - I need the warmth.
The trick is a well-stocked pantry and nowhere to go very fast. We also had the added entertainment of the boy-racer opposite creating his very own ice-rink by putting the pedal to the metal trying to get our of his drive.
Nov 28th 2010, 6:16 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
... here (we're in Dubai) or back in the UK (if that's your home country)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
Nov 28th 2010, 7:42 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
... here (we're in Dubai) or back in the UK (if that's your home country)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ches-snow.html
For us the answer is definitely here. And our UK friends who'd been visiting for a week and who left last night to return to UK didn't want to go back either. We start to feel that it's a bit chilly when the temp dips to around 24/25c or so. The fluffy slippers and fleece have been in use for about a week already - and that's indoors! May have to hunt out the thermals soon.
Sydney
Maldives
Thailand
Sri Lanka
Melbourne
Goa
etc etc
Nov 29th 2010, 3:57 am
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
I'd rather be in the UK right now, well dressed against the cold on my way to the village pub for a few jars of decent ale, warming myself by the fire and tucking into some good food.
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Nov 29th 2010, 2:25 pm
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Heart: back inSanta Catarina, Brasil or Queensland, Australia
Head: here until we can buy a couple of places in Brasil
Or inside Eva Longorias Pants, but I think the question was more geographically inclined
Head: here until we can buy a couple of places in Brasil
Or inside Eva Longorias Pants, but I think the question was more geographically inclined
Nov 29th 2010, 2:40 pm
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
You could ask me that question 353 days of the year and on 333 of them I'd answer: "Nowhere else" because I hardly ever do anything I don't want to do. Wether it's dancing, karaoke, getting pictures taken of myself or even paying my bills, if I don't want to do it I'll usually find a way out of it. I give my wife 30 days a year so she better get at the family funerals, weddings, nephews and nieces birthdays and graduation parties all into those 30 days, or I just wont be there. Everyone thinks I'm crazy but life is too short to be doing what you don't want to be doing all the time. Right?
Why 333 days (20 less)
and where do the 30 days come from?
Bearing in mind there are 365 days in the year, I can't make sense of any of your numbers.
I'm sure there is some mathematical/numerical reasoning behind this, but I can't quite work it out.
Also, are you saying you only give 30 days a year to your wife?
I look forward to being enlightened....
Nov 29th 2010, 9:04 pm
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Re: Where would you rather be at the moment ...
Can understand the bit about being on the way to the village pub for an ale and some food ... but our old local (400yrs old) is now a Mediterranean themed (so-called) gastropub. Totally rubbish. Cheese sandwich in 2008 was GBP5 (just 2 pieces of bread and some plastic cheese). No heart, no soul and no regulars. None of our friends even go there any more it's that awful. And it was our local for about 25 years. What a shame.