jen85 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 God everyone moans about the weather soooo much! You can live life if its still raining its not the end of the world!! I still went for walks in the rain through the countryside you have to enjoy life even if it means getting wet :cute: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourcorners Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I am sorry I have not been more specific and I have stated now that I live in Scotland but there are some people here that think the weather is fine too! Again they are just use to it! I have friends and family in different parts of England and I watch the weather and although I agree you get much nicer weather it's still depressing in my opinion! Lack of daylight for one in the winter is a killer for most! A 'killer'? You should be thankful you are pregnant in Scotland and not the Australian summer. Having just returned from a great 12 holiday in Tasmania and Melbourne, yesterday made me want to slit my wrists. Got to 36C and 60% humidity (normally it is very dry where we live and 36C ain't too bad). Because of the humidity the RC aircon was completely useless. Being 6 months pregnant, it was just miserable. Spent the day on the sofa stripped down to my underwear, dripping with sweat and on the verge of tears for most of the day. The UK weather has never made me feel like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrwelsh79 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks Adonna for your kind words - I do feel like everyone has just bashed me and it doesn't make people very welcome to this site. Most people on here have missed the point of the original post which was wanting a different perspective from people who have moved back to the UK and have felt they have made a mistake but a lot of people on here are unwilling to hear anything bad said about their precious UK! Ridiculous! If it was so great here why are any of us thinking of moving to OZ, living in OZ or lived in OZ! Not sure why half of you are on here that live in the UK and love it so much!? Anyway I have had enough of this site for a while it just upsets me coming on here. Thank you again for your words it was so nice for a change not to get bashed and told I have some sort of agenda!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrwelsh79 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 A 'killer'? You should be thankful you are pregnant in Scotland and not the Australian summer. Having just returned from a great 12 holiday in Tasmania and Melbourne, yesterday made me want to slit my wrists. Got to 36C and 60% humidity (normally it is very dry where we live and 36C ain't too bad). Because of the humidity the RC aircon was completely useless. Being 6 months pregnant, it was just miserable. Spent the day on the sofa stripped down to my underwear, dripping with sweat and on the verge of tears for most of the day. The UK weather has never made me feel like that! That sounds awful we only ever had a handful of days each year that were awful where we lived like that during our 5 years and I remember they were horrible but living day in and day out with this weather (no sun) I have in my area right now with no light at the end of the tunnel is a killer for me - I'd happily swap those few days for months of cold and rain! Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy and hope it cools down for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest 47403 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 A 'killer'? You should be thankful you are pregnant in Scotland and not the Australian summer. Having just returned from a great 12 holiday in Tasmania and Melbourne, yesterday made me want to slit my wrists. Got to 36C and 60% humidity (normally it is very dry where we live and 36C ain't too bad). Because of the humidity the RC aircon was completely useless. Being 6 months pregnant, it was just miserable. Spent the day on the sofa stripped down to my underwear, dripping with sweat and on the verge of tears for most of the day. The UK weather has never made me feel like that! Have you ever been pregnant before? If my wife is anything to go by their are plenty things that can have you 'on the verge of tears for most of the day' more likely to be hormones made worse by the warm weather :cute: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30085 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks Adonna for your kind words - I do feel like everyone has just bashed me and it doesn't make people very welcome to this site. Most people on here have missed the point of the original post which was wanting a different perspective from people who have moved back to the UK and have felt they have made a mistake but a lot of people on here are unwilling to hear anything bad said about their precious UK! Ridiculous! If it was so great here why are any of us thinking of moving to OZ, living in OZ or lived in OZ! Not sure why half of you are on here that live in the UK and love it so much!? Anyway I have had enough of this site for a while it just upsets me coming on here. Thank you again for your words it was so nice for a change not to get bashed and told I have some sort of agenda!? Please don't take it personally, when you have been on this site for a while, you will notice that the same happens to anyone who dares to mention that they think Australia may offer anything better than the UK. It's nothing personal, they will do anything to convince you that UK is best, to belittle any ideas you may have about Australia. Although to even that out, there are others in the pro-Australia camp who think they are living in Narnia. Please don't feel pushed out, you have as much right as anyone else does to post on here. But the Oz vs UK arguments have been done to death on here, yet some still feel unable to change their tune. Such a pity when a new poster feels like this. There are plenty of nice people on here, you sometimes have to wade through the sh!te to find then though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petals Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I agree with Adonna and take the view that those that protect the UK are unnerved when anyone does not agree with them. Yes I can hear you now the Aussies say the same, but the name of the forum is Pomsinoz I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metoo Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 We have been trying to get to the tip with some garden rubbish for 8 weeks!!! Every time we suggest getting the trailer out it chucks it down with rain. I am so sick of this crap weather, you will NEVER convince me to the UK weather is good or that it doesn't stop you doing things. The weather here in the UK spoils things, FACT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest 47403 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 (edited) Please don't take it personally, when you have been on this site for a while, you will notice that the same happens to anyone who dares to mention that they think Australia may offer anything better than the UK. It's nothing personal, they will do anything to convince you that UK is best, to belittle any ideas you may have about Australia. Although to even that out, there are others in the pro-Australia camp who think they are living in Narnia. Please don't feel pushed out, you have as much right as anyone else does to post on here. But the Oz vs UK arguments have been done to death on here, yet some still feel unable to change their tune. Such a pity when a new poster feels like this. There are plenty of nice people on here, you sometimes have to wade through the sh!te to find then though Great post :wubclub: rrwelsh79 you probably picked the wrong part of the forum to vent your opinion/frustration of the UK on as it WILL get jumped on here, it's where the haters tend to hang out :laugh::tongue: Edited January 28, 2014 by Guest 47403 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramot Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks Adonna for your kind words - I do feel like everyone has just bashed me and it doesn't make people very welcome to this site. Most people on here have missed the point of the original post which was wanting a different perspective from people who have moved back to the UK and have felt they have made a mistake but a lot of people on here are unwilling to hear anything bad said about their precious UK! Ridiculous! If it was so great here why are any of us thinking of moving to OZ, living in OZ or lived in OZ! Not sure why half of you are on here that live in the UK and love it so much!? Anyway I have had enough of this site for a while it just upsets me coming on here. Thank you again for your words it was so nice for a change not to get bashed and told I have some sort of agenda!? Try not to take it too personally. There are lots of nice and helpful posters around. If you read MBTUK thread from time to time, you will see predominately that it's the same posters who delight in knocking any one who criticises UK, and there are also the OZ supporters, but on the whole they don't seem to quite so ready to knock people down. It's sad that posters who have returned to UK for whatever reason have to blame Australia for everything. Honestly there is good and bad in most countries, but some posters have problems accepting that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Actor Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Have you ever been pregnant before? If my wife is anything to go by their are plenty things that can have you 'on the verge of tears for most of the day' more likely to be hormones made worse by the warm weather :cute: There you go fourcorners, it's your hormones made worse by the warm weather, stop whinging. You should think yourself lucky, you could be in the UK, that will make your hormones even worse in the cold weather. Grey skies and all that terrible weather we have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest 47403 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 There you go fourcorners, it's your hormones made worse by the warm weather, stop whinging. You should think yourself lucky, you could be in the UK, that will make your hormones even worse in the cold weather. Grey skies and all that terrible weather we have. Oh yeah definitely be worse in the UK :wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapri Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I didn't realise it was 10 days - if so that has made my day! I was told by our pet transporters when we left just over a year ago that it would be difficult as the Rabbies status of the UK had changed. Well at least there is hope I'll need to look into it. Unfortunately my hubby wants to be close to his dad still and with being pregnant I'm still stuck in a place I don't want to be. But there is hope for the future hopefully! As for Melbourne I love the place it's fab but the weather is too up and down for my liking - all the seasons in one day. I have friends there that find it very difficult. We stayed in Newcastle and had a lovely climate - beautiful blue skies in the winter - yes of course there were many days/weeks when it rained and it was overcast but they certainly were never endless like they are here and you certainly didn't have to put layers of thermals and fleeces on like I have to here! I didn't even own a winter jacket there! I live in Scotland and it's freezing and it's raining and windy. My poor dogs don't even want to go out! Give me warm rain and wind any day! Sorry there is no comparison there for me! As for the hot days in OZ I agree they are disgusting but as long as you have air con they are bareable. We were very lucky to have that but I know many are not. I agree it is a personal decision at the end of the day - unfortunately in my instance the decision is out of my hands! Hopefully we will get back to OZ one day! Good luck to you all x I've read this thread with interest. I think weather is such a subjective thing but personally I love the weather here. I'm in Newcastle too and we have lots of blue skies and warm days. We sit outside in the evening, go out for walks at weekends and do 90% of our socialising outside. It's not perfect here in Australia ( I see a LOT of obese people for example) but I do think the weather in this part of NSW is hard to beat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Actor Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Oh yeah definitely be worse in the UK :wub: Everything is, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest 47403 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Everything is, isn't it? That all depends on your outlook , you seem a glass half full sorta person so I don't think you would fit in to UK life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Is this your first post 6 years after joining the forum? Look, I am not a fan of UK winter and like heat really, but this is over egging it. There have been some pleasant days between the wet and windy weather of the past few weeks and we have got out on our bikes most weekends. Prefer this to the ice and snow in recent years myself but then we are fortunate not to be at risk of the floods. So true. We had a really beautiful summer last year, I preferred it to an Aussie summer of 40 degrees and having to put sun cream on the kids just to walk to the end of the garden (and it was a small garden!) And it is possible to go outside in the rain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 ??? how strange you thought that, must be where you lived, Weve done a total of 25 years in Melbourne in 3 different lots (due to never ending family illness). The winter is as endless as it is in the UK, last winter started in May and ended sometime in December, maybe not the tempreture but certainly the rain and wind component which is worse overall than we ever had in London. There was a day mid December when top temp in Frankston, near were we lived hit a top of 13c. Then of course the sun came out in Januarys and was too hot to go out even though we both like the beach, even under big umbrella we were getting burnt, even with factor 30 suncream on and to top it off we are finding we have to spend so many days indoors with the blinds down to keep the sun out and the air con on. Give us London any day for year round climate (more days outside by far)with our chosen holidays to the med for reliable sun when we need it. As for our views (nothing much to do with this post or thread) Melbourne, well these days all the advantages of previous eras have gone, now its a full on city with constipated roads and London prices for isolated soulless housing estates and corny westfield shopping centres as the focal point of everyone's lives, population doubled in 25 years but not the real 'city' advantages like public transport, parks or other things you would associate with a city of 4million. In fact after a recent visit to the UK we found Edinburgh had as much but with a population of 400k, that is 1/10th. and to boot we had a much better summer in the UK last year than most summers in Melbourne and 1000x better than any drab dreary endless winter here (Melbourne that is) Great Post Melbourne Smells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Great example of what I was saying! I just read a great article about that very subject (staying because everyone thinks you're living the dream), but about Italy:http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/26/italy-dream-move-end I was in Horsham. brilliant article, thanks for this. I love the bit about if you talk about whether you are happy, you are not! we had endless discussions on this subject in Australia! Exhausting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spreadingwings Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 If only it was that easy to just move back - we have 2 dogs that are our babies and I could not go through putting them in quarantine and could not give them up as they are our world so we are now stuck over here for the next 10plus years! Pet quarantine is a thing of the past in Aus now - it's no longer required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffordshiregirl Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 What are the pet rules now for bringing them from the UK to australia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spreadingwings Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 What are the pet rules now for bringing them from the UK to australia? Here are the steps required for an approved country (UK included): http://www.daff.gov.au/biosecurity/cat-dogs/step-by-step-guides/category-3-step-by-step-guide-for-dogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriciaBright Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 love this to Marissa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDane Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 we were getting burnt, even with factor 30 suncream Everyone knows that only factor 50 works in Oz :biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Everyone knows that only factor 50 works in Oz :biggrin: Factor 50 only reached Australia in late 2012 and is still not widely available. The concern was it gives people a false sense of safety when the only safe thing to do is cover up, stay in the shade or stay inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.