We have just signed up with our agent so have a way to go yet. Just wondering what are the things you cannot get in Adelaide that you miss?

If I know in advance I can make sure I stock up on anything I may not be able to get :D

Decent chinese/indian food and factor 4 sunscreen!!
Oh and cheap diesel fuel for cars!

For starters.........


Pampers nappies
Cadbury's chocolate
Next children's clothes
Heinz Oxtail soup

T.V Quick (for it's sense of humour)
BBC 2, CH 4 and CH 5 (for interesting programmes)
The Daily Mail (to keep my interest for more than 10 minutes)
Going upstairs to bed (it's just something that I've always done :D )
A big bath (so I can fit all of me in at the same time!)
Sainsburys steam in the microwave ready meals (Quick Healthy treat)
Tescos (cos it stayed open 24 hours and I could do retail therapy when the kids were in bed :bouncy: )
Walking to school (I was always awake by the time I got back home)
Seeing 'Memory landmarks' where I grew up (ie place of first kiss,my old school,where I played as a kid)
Marks and Spencer school uniform (non-iron range)
Unsmoked bacon.......

That's mine for now :P

Jan

I'm going to be really sad now and say nothing really I've got used to the way things are here now and I find it funny when things so familiar in the past seem so strange now like I came across UK money and the 50 pence piece is tiny when you get used to 50 cent pieces taking up ALL the room in your purse :lol:

Although there was (dare I mention it :ph43r: ) a jar of marmite on top of the fridge in work today and I had to open it just to have a smell :lol:

Sasha :)

Certain people

oh god - no Next for kids clothes and no cadbury chocolate :o mind you, that could be a good thing for my purse and my waistline :D

no such thing! paying £1.00 now so costing £60+ to fill up and that does me less than 350 miles!

real football i haven't got foxtel

pint measures

pg tips tea

m o t d :doh:

arthur and jean...my neighbours..both in their seventies..but what a lovely couple...

its goes without saying my family but I know ill never speak to these two people ever again...which makes me sad..

lolly x

You shouldn't be using anything less than factor 30 here, to help protect against skin cancer.

http://www.abconline.com.au/health/library/skincancer_ff.htm

Lesley

I could go on forever on this one so i'll just say,
MY MOM! :(

France....

Our Central Heating :sigh:

National Trust and English Heritage properties and gardens ... oh, and hoare frost - beautiful !

Cheap flights, channel tunnel for the occassional shopping raid in Calais :D, Europe in general, Costco & Asda........

Desiree
:D :D

You get that here..................tastes a bit different at first but you get used to it :)

Quavers, Walkers Sensations, Tescos Onion Rings, proper Galaxy chocolate.
Jaffa Cakes that aren't $3.50 a box. Minstrels

History, old stuff, my mates, going places where people know how many sugars I have in my tea. Sitting in the Yacht club on a friday night, on the deck in the summer, with all our mates, jug of pimms on the table, looking out over Poole Harbour, watching the boats go by. light summer evenings

That will do for now - family goes without saying

Jo

You can get Cadbury's here but it doesn't taste the same - some people get used to it but personally (and I do keep trying it just to see) I still find it revolting.

Jo

The cheap flights...

miss the fact that we could go abroad every month if we wanted.

Most of all, I miss the Glesga patter.. canny get nuthin like it anywhere ;)

K

It changes with the seasons...
but right now I miss Slimming World, Hi Fi bars and Quorn(super fast food!!!!)
Most of the time I miss 'village' life.
And while family and friends go without saying it's the little uns that were babies when we left who'll soon be starting school and who have no real idea who Auntie Gils is despite tonnes of photos asnd webcams :( :sigh:
However since my cup is ALWAYS half full...
Don't miss traffic, the pressures of target setting in English Schools or the frustration of always being the ones who had to travel to visit people because the road is always half the distance....
Gils ;)

Jo, you get Galaxy here, but for the life of me I can't think what it's called now ... the packaging is exactly the same though ... Enya pointed out to me that it's got the same name here as it does in France. Aaaargh! Will ask her when she gets back from school .....

Is it Dove ?

I miss going shopping with my best friend Tracy, going to watch the kids doing Karate & I really miss having a good old natter with people that you bump into on the street & shops :( :D

i can quite honestly say that i dont miss anything ( apart from family). I have been back in adelaide for a week , (i went to england for a 2 week holiday) i now realise how lucky we were to have this oppertunity.....Live life to the full.... :happy45:

Jenny

Really don't miss too much but some of them would be:

Marks and Spencer's food department
Tescos (there is really no comparison between UK and Oz supermarkets!)
Fox's Rocky biscuits
Cadbury chocolate
Next clothes
Coronation Street and other familiar TV
Knowing exactly where to go for something without searching it out

However, I would also have to say that there is FAR more that I would miss about living here if we were to return to the UK ;)

Carolyn

Yes I agree.


Also I've found that the longer I've been here the shorter my list gets :D

If 'Galaxy' chocolate IS Dove, then I can say that my husband and I are addicted to Dove Nut Caramel chocolate. Very creamy.

A good pub, beer gardens and driving into the county for a meal at a nice country pub.

Phew!!!! I'm with you Jenny :D

Reading through these posts I was beginning to think I was a bit strange, because apart from family, I don't miss anything about UK. Glad to see I'm not alone :lol2:

Lesley

Football and eastenders!!!....isn't my life so shallow! :lol2: :lol2:


But foxtel being installed next week, so problem solved!!!

By the way, can anyone tell me what channel eastenders is on foxtel and what episodes its up to?


lorraine

You can get "English" Cadburys here if you know where to look. I don't like the chocolate here very much (including Cadburys) but every now and again my hubby brings me home an English bar from his secret supplier....
Mandy
xx

so if I bring over a case of Cadbury, a case of Next Clothes for my daughter and get Foxtel sharpish I should be ok :D

Can't wait to see the differences and miss things for myself ( :huh: as odd as that sounds!!)

Dime bars.. But now they sell mini ones in Ikea under the name Daims!!! Going along to get a BIG bag!

Well my sister came out here for a holiday for 6 weeks and I`d not seen her in 16yrs, and yes thats the time we have been here, when we said goodbye at the airport I felt as though my inside was being torn away, I really have never felt like this before, even after a bitter divorce back in the UK. I realy can`t explain what I really felt, but I can tell you I`m looking forward to seeing her next year, we had a fab time, took her inter state, and really had a good time there too, can`t say much more as I am getting too emotional

Sheila

Lorluc, Eastenders is on Channel 103 (UK TV) and this week Dirty Den got killed, so we're a long way behind the UK episodes.

Sheila, sorry to hear you're feeling low after saying cheerio to your sister, but next year will be here before you know it ... keep that chin up girl!

thanks adelaidegirle, i`m really looking forward to my sister Mavis`s visit again nexr year, it gives me a real lift, you don`t realize how much you miss people until you see them again and have to say GOODBYE

Sheila

Low and behold, hubby has indeed come home tonight with a Dairy Milk and a Terry's Chocolate Orange - proper English ones. He gets them from an English sweet shop in the CBD. He says its in either Gawler Place or James Place (not sure which one. Enjoy!!!
Mandy
xx

I could not agree more, what is it with UK pubs - atmosphere or what - its just not the same here -

Lucky you :D

There's a sweet shop at Semaphore not far from us - she sells Cadbury's Buttons for about $2.50 but I end up with about 5 as we all fight over them. Now you've got me thinking about Terry's Chocolate Orange - I'd forgot about those.


PS Eastenders is on 103 (UKTV) and 153 (UKTV+2) - if you are a soap addict like me there's Family Affairs, Coronation Street and then double episode of Eastenders all in one sitting and if you miss any of them just watch them on 153. Also they are repeated throughout the day. No Emmerdale though :(


Jo

Lucky you already did 30 min run then!!!!
Gils ;)