Missing Stuff
Just got back from our weekly Wednesday swim - Heidi is a complete nutter and really wears herself out because she gets so over the top excited, it's so funny :) Then i have my Wednesday slice of warm date loaf with cream and a coffee and Jenna has an unnaturally brightly coloured ice cream. I do like Wednesdays :) And then by the time we get home Heidi is so exhausted that she goes straight down for a nap with no fuss, if she's not already asleep in the buggy, as she was today.........
Can you imagine falling asleep with your nose on your toes?????!!!
My stooopid oven blew up again. Adrian was cooking sausages the other morning and i remarked that something smelled very electrical and pretty much as soon as i said it there was a big BANG that made us both jump about 10 feet backwards. We didn't know what it was at first and Adrian thought perhaps it had been a plug in some water, but when i tried making cookies with Leah later on we found out that it was the oven element again; it's just blowing a lot of cold air around.
And the plumber had to come and fix the toilet yesterday as it is leaking all over the toilet floor - that needed loads of new parts. And there is more mould than i care to mention in this house - we really are quite fed up with it all now. Oh for a Lotto win!
I have been missing a lot of things about home this week, so i have decided to compile a list of things i miss about England. Obviously i miss you all very much and you all feature at number 1 as the thing i miss the most, but this is a purely materialistic list, so don't be offended that you're not on the list!!
Things I Miss About England
- Post persons that deliver mail to your door - so you never have wet mail where they half-heartedly put it in your letter box, and not half a mile down a long driveway. The novelty of having a Neighbours - style mailbox is well and truly over.
- Lottery tickets you can buy with loose change - let's face it - we're never going to win Lotto here because $13 is NOT loose change. I miss £1 lottery tickets!!
- Nice sausages and bacon - they just don't make the right here. Pork flavoured sausages with beef and lamb in them ??? Chicken sausages??? Chicken sausages with cheese???
- Fenced playgrounds - for example; there's a new park near us which they have fenced but omitted to put a gate on - what is the point in that???
- The Daily Mail - am missing normal sized newspapers. The NZ Herald requires a space the size of your average family dining table to read. i usually end up having a fight with it as there's so much of it and it's near on impossible to fold up without a flat surface.
- Marks and Spencers underwear - *sigh*
- Christmas in winter - it just ain't right in summer :( I want to be absolutely freeeeeezing!!
- Heat magazine we do get it here but it costs about $7 and it obviously is shipped over on the world's slowest boat as is always 3 months behind - i'm like, "oh, Jordan just got married?" "Victoria Beckham just had a baby?" "that guy from Westlife is gay?" I'm so out of touch!
- Topshop and H&M - Oh for nice cheap clothes!
- Mr Kipling French Fancies -I actually can't stop thinking about them; i saw them in a magazine a while back and i waaaaaant some.
- Marks and Spencers prawn sandwiches - used to be a staple part of my diet - i miss them!
- Hula Hoops - i can buy them at the English shop down the road but invariably they're past their sell-by-date and cost about $3.
- free schooling - that would be very nice.....
- Ikea - i think it is coming to the new Shopping complex in Mount Wellington next year, but for now i miss it a LOT.
- Public transport (seriously - don't ever moan about public
transport - you don't know how good you've got it!!)
- Big Brother -
- Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewells,
- Channel 4
- Ant and Dec
- GMTV
- Thorntons Chocolates
- Jonathon Ross
- Phillip Schofield
- 2p arcade games on the pier
- all my books from home that i didn't bring with me
- my bedroom
- Manhattans coffee shop in Worthing - lots of good memories :)
- Battenburg - i found a recipe but it seems an awful lot of work
2 comments:
Just to let you know that you can sometimes buy Mr Kipling stuff in Foodtown supermarkets and we have found a great shop in glen eden called the London Deli that does great sausages and bacon like you get in the UK.Hula hoops are Craigs favourite too and we have to go to the vege shop near Parrs Park that sells all the english stuff to get them for him.
I know what you mean, I can buy imported cadburys here, but its about $3 for a small bar, and never seems to taste the same. And American cadburys? horrific! I want some french fancees now!!! see what you've started!!
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