Not moving at all
Apr 7th 2010, 5:37 pm
#16
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Re: Not moving at all
It sounds like good logical reasoning to me, Dills! I must say I agree with you on pretty much all counts. Around here the things that dig into your feet are bindiis (bindy-eyes) and nasty little buggers they are too.
I just spent a month in UK Feb-March and was quite taken aback by the number of days which were nicely sunny, cold but sunny and quite pleasant to be outside. It's the variety that I crave after having lived here for 31 years - variety of scenery, weather (it's a sad old life when you live indoors scouring the bom site for a patch of blue rain because it is too hot to go outside!!!), entertainment, shops, buildings etc. And one other thing which I adore in UK that I never get here anymore is birdsong - we live in the "bush capital" where the prevalent bird noise is cockatoo screeching (can you hear it? I swear it is loud enough!), magpies and indian mynahs - it's all so loud and downright cacaphonic. I just love walking out in my folks' village and hearing REAL birdsong, tuneful and sweet.
Enjoy the summer Dills, you've got a good range of places to visit!
I just spent a month in UK Feb-March and was quite taken aback by the number of days which were nicely sunny, cold but sunny and quite pleasant to be outside. It's the variety that I crave after having lived here for 31 years - variety of scenery, weather (it's a sad old life when you live indoors scouring the bom site for a patch of blue rain because it is too hot to go outside!!!), entertainment, shops, buildings etc. And one other thing which I adore in UK that I never get here anymore is birdsong - we live in the "bush capital" where the prevalent bird noise is cockatoo screeching (can you hear it? I swear it is loud enough!), magpies and indian mynahs - it's all so loud and downright cacaphonic. I just love walking out in my folks' village and hearing REAL birdsong, tuneful and sweet.
Enjoy the summer Dills, you've got a good range of places to visit!
I will enjoy the Summer Quoll, and I am determined to start putting all my energies into visiting places that are literally on my doorstep, but as ever we take for granted. I am also seeing things from a renewed perspective, I took my youngest daughter to play at her friends house yesterday in a place called badgeworth, its a tiny little village, but its beautiful, the house she went to is about 200 years old, ours is 100 years old, with a thatched roof about a stones throw from an ancient church, we dropped her off, then me and my eldest daugher walked around the church yard, it was a lovely sunny day, surrounded by rolling hills and yes the birds were singing, It felt great to finally be appreciating what I already have.
Apr 8th 2010, 3:03 pm
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Re: Not moving at all
So I have finally made my decision, that everything I hold dear is right here in the UK, I have told the kids, who arent bothered about moving anymore, instead we intend to spend the visa application money doing our house up and going on holiday, its a relief really and I would like to thank this forum, for all the honest posts about life in Oz.
Apr 9th 2010, 2:58 pm
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Re: Not moving at all
Courageous because often, once people start considering emigration, it's easy to become attached to the idea. Especially if there is peer pressure to migrate. It often takes some courage to decide not to migrate, if already part-way down the road.
Apr 10th 2010, 3:01 pm
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Re: Not moving at all
good post , i returned in november 09 ,no regrets at all coming home to the uk . After 20 years i thought it would be hard , but no its not .Better go off to brugge on the piss for 5 days with my aussie son ,boat to catch . Ah bliss the life of choice at last ...........................................
