Mad ?

Mad? Certainly not (as long as you have a job/income already sorted out).

Welcome home, England in May...



Orchids, Cowslips, Our Lady's Bedstraw at locations in Suffolk (May last year).

Paradise.

Oh, and...

The Boleyn Ground Stu?

Tigers should be tigerish orange and black, surely? My beloved rugby league Tigers are.

quote:

Originally posted by SC:

Perth ...it's boring, though I quite liked the little old city!

Steve

Even the locals call it "Dullsville". I guess that it depends on what you want from the place where you live - there's not much here by way of nightlife, the shopping is appalling and you're a gazillion kilometres from anything.

But then, I sometimes see kangaroos on my drive into work. There were kookaburras on the tree outside my office window today. The climate is incredibly agreeable after the UK, and I suspect that it would stand up to anywhere in the world in that respect. You are very near to lots and lot of beautiful beaches and the Indian Ocean in this part of the world is staggering to look at. Plenty of concerts to go to, with major international artists appearing quite regularly (they often include a Perth leg to their Aussie tours). It's all relative I suppose.

There are worse places in the world to be than this...

All the best

Kevin

quote:

Originally posted by Lontano:

We have been back 9 months now and are not really missing Oz that much at this point, just our friends down under (although I would jump at a trip back to Sydney).

We miss you too buddy, everything comes to an end so - that's just the way of the Expat.

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Originally posted by kevj:
There are worse places in the world to be than this...

Absolutely. I wasn't knocking it Kevin, quite the opposite, but just commenting that my girlfriend, a local, thought it 'unexciting' shall we say and moved away 10 years ago....As I say, on my few short visits I quite liked it...and of course there's Freo !

quote:

Originally posted by avole:
Yes, I always thought Darwin felt less isolated than Perth.

Isn't Perth supposed to be the most remote modern city in the world or something...?!

Steve

Now that one can get those nice Holden/Vauxhall V8 cars in the UK, I suppose there shouldn't be anything to keep you!

You can't in Sweden, where I live

JohanR

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Originally posted by bazz:
Tigers should be tigerish orange and black, surely? My beloved rugby league Tigers are.

Just to bore you for a moment with the history of Leicester and their shirts...

Leicester Football Club was formed in 1880 by the merger of three smaller teams. The new club wore black.

About five years later the nickname "Tigers" was first used, a local paper reporting that "the Tiger stripes were keeping well together". The origin of the nickname is uncertain. One theory is that it came from the Royal Leicestershire Regiment which received the nickname after serving in India. The other theory is that the team wore a brown and yellow jersey. (In their early years, they were also known as "The Death or Glory Boys".) The now-famous red, green and white was introduced in 1891, originally as vertical stripes until the distinctive hoops were first worn in 1895.

By the early 1930s Leicester had started using letters to identify the whole team, which lasted until quite recently and the professional era. (I still miss it.)

Boring lesson over.

Aussies and their Utes !...I don't know !

JWM - That's quite interesting actually..! I didn't know. Leicester was the nearest decent rugga team when I was a kid...Back in the day of Dusty Hare !

Steve

Fair enough James, can't argue with tradition. Letters eh? there'd be a few interesting anagrams at about phase 11.

Thanks for your thoughts guys. The shippers were here yesterday and did a great job so we won't see our gear again until the end of June.

JWM thank you for those pictures - one of the reasons for my wanting to return was missing the English country side.


It's ANZAC day here in Australia (similar to Rembreance Sunday but observed very solemnly) so I can't take our car down to the car yards to sell it. However this has been a blessing in disguise as a good friend has offered to look after the sale for us.

So now all we have to do is clean up the house then on Monday wait for charity people to pick up the stuff we are donating and the clearup people to take the rubbish (10 years generates a lot of junk - try it) and enjoy ourselves at our farewell bash tomorrow.

I feel a bit in limbo now so looking forward to actually getting going.

Cheers
Scott

Sad, really sad. I guess that I know how you feel. I have moved from London -> Zurich -> Frankfurt -Zurich -> London -> Palo Alto -> New York -> Tokyo -> Sacramento in the the space of less than 20 years so I guess I understand how one feels when leaving one place for another.

All the best and hope that you find what you are looking for.

Hi guys,

Well we're back - sort of. After living in temporary accommodation for a few weeks we've rented a house and moved in on Bank Holiday Monday.

So far we've been too busy running about getting banks, rental properties etc sorted out to actually enjoy ourselves much but just driving around the countryside has put a grin on my face again.

The service we've received since coming back has been mixed some good some bad - just as it is in Australia (and probably the world over unless there is somewhere on earth taken over by aliens).

Next week we'll be walking the West Highland Way and we're very much looking forward to that. Then it's just a case of waiting a few more weeks for our shipment to arrive from Brisbane and then we'll really feel a bit more normal again.

At the moment we're sort of camping in the house we've moved into - no sofa, no beds (camp mat + sleeping bag) and defintitely no Naim Still we're doing OK and my new place of work is looking after me very well so no complaints on that front.

Now where can I watch the Champions League final tonight ... ?

Cheers all
Scott