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All those online for NZ timezone!

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buzzybee · 28/04/2007 05:17

Hi all. Used to be a regular on MN when I lived in London but since moving back to NZ have found it harder to make the connections due to all the brits being asleep when us down under are online! So if anyone is keen to start a thread for those of us in this predicament please reply! My DD has just turned 5 and started school last week (scary). Have just found out I'm expecting number 2 - due roughly Xmas day...

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MrsJohnCusack · 30/04/2007 05:28

well I know how you feel!
only now, 7 months after getting here, am I starting to make some more friends (up til now it's just been twentypence and a couple I know from the UK)
but I still massively miss my uk friends

MrsJohnCusack · 30/04/2007 05:29

not that there's anything wrong with 20p obviously!

twentypence · 30/04/2007 05:57

There's plenty wrong with me - you just haven't discovered it yet!

Don't mention a Hairy Maclary Show - there was one a couple of years ago during Kids Fest and it was singularly the most embarrasing thing that I have ever been too. I was bemused the whole way through. Some of the costumes were indecent, I'm still having nightmares about Hercules Morse who was hung like a horse. And Snitzel von Krumm with such a tight costume only a gynecologist would not have been shocked.

Ghosty - so glad you have got to Melbourne.

MrsJohnCusack · 30/04/2007 06:14

oh you have really made me laugh with that! hung like a horse....tee hee

eidsvold · 30/04/2007 06:14

ghosty - you can sit out on my deck with a cold drink and set the world right

dh is off to your neck of the woods tomorrow for a few days - no idea how I will cope with 3

ghosty · 30/04/2007 09:04

Thanks eidsvold that is kind of you You'll be fine with 3, piece of cake, honest

20p ... hung like a horse made me laugh out loud - DS wanted to know what was funny
MrsJC ... I know how you feel love, I think when I got to the 12 month stage in NZ the novelty of introducing myself to people had worn off - "Hello, my names Ghosty, I am from England" Yawn yawn ...
But having a baby really helped break a lot of ice ... playgroups (which I do find mind numbing) do serve a purpose. I dragged myself to one for a few weeks, then met a girl there who had gone on the off chance - she was new too. We hit it off and never went back - she ended up being best mate with kitchen table and timtams mentioned below ...
After a year I felt I began to have a bit of history with people ...

AnnainNZ · 01/05/2007 01:31

I too laughed out loud at the hercules morse and snitzel von krum comments. And I have to read hairy maclairy to 20 under-two's (I work in a daycare)...I'm never going to be able read it to them with a straight face again!

I think I was lucky coming over to NZ young(ish) free and single as I had several years of meeting people by going out and getting pissed (always helps), before I did the settling down thing. So I have met a fair few people, though quite a lot of them seem to be English or Irish, some Kiwi though. i do sometimes miss knowing people who've known you ten or twenty years. My oldest friend here I met a week after I got here (nearly 6 years ago) and I do feel like I've known her my whole lifetime. Unfortunatley she buggered off to Wellington so we're not in the same city anymore. Mrs JC (fab name btw - the mighty Mr Cusack is one of my all time faves - the actor, obvioulsy, not your dh!)) I htink you were very brave moving over here while pregnant. I wouldn't want to move anywhere at the moment, I'd probably cry. Mind you, I'm crying at COronation St and Telecom ads at the moment so it really doesn't take much. Pregnancy hormones...grrrrr

sibble · 01/05/2007 03:18

Hi All am also on the kiwi thread have a 7 and 2 year old (4 1/2 year age gap) IMO it's geat for the older one who is really a single child until virtually school age, then you get alot of one on one with the baby but I do struggle now with the age gap trying to find things to entertain both, especially during school hols. We do alot of walking on beaches and taking bikes to the botanic gardens where you are not supposed to ride .
As most know I'm in Whitford, just south of Auckland, from London originally (yes we do exist, true Londoners, we just live abroad now ), was imported 4.5 years ago by DH a kiwi from Hamilton - no offence to anybody on here from Hamilton but when he said 'lets move to NZ' my first words were 'Ok but not Hamilton '. Will be a citizen when I send off the application which ahs been filled ina nd sitting on my kitech bench for a year.

sibble · 01/05/2007 03:19

a chocolate fish for the first one who can translate the last sentence of my post [hmmm] boys have been sick, back to back a week in the house is taking it's toll me thinks

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ghosty · 01/05/2007 04:52

beyooodifool CF

I managed to get through 5 years in NZ without saying "Good as Gold" or "Sweet As"

But I feel that I may well end up saying, "Beyoooooooooooodifooooool" if I am not careful

ghosty · 01/05/2007 04:56

sibble, your application form has been filled in and is sitting on your kitchen bench.

I will pick up my chocolate fush when I see you in a couple of weeks - when I come for my ceremony for my citizenship. Good as Gold!

eidsvold · 01/05/2007 06:45

ghosty - dd2 has taken to say

'she's a beauuuuudddifful baaaaaaaaaaby' about dd3 in some unidentifiable accent all the time.

it was funny when I was teaching and living out west - shared with a kiwi and he used to crack me up with some of the sayings or names they had for things. - chilly bin, 2/4 dairy, jandals instantly spring to mind.

eidsvold · 01/05/2007 06:46

dh has just has his interview for aussie citizenship - he is just waiting for his ceremony date.

ghosty · 01/05/2007 08:33

Congratulations to your DH eidsvold!
It feels good doesn't it?
I know I am now in Aus but I feel really proud to be an NZ citizen - it really is an amazing country, with amazing people ... to achieve what they do with only a population (and therefore $$) of only 4 million people is amazing ....

I am also glad that finally our whole family will be the same - dual nationality holders (NZ and British) ...

eidsvold · 01/05/2007 09:10

we need to get dd2 and dd3 sorted and then we will all be dual citizens - brit and aus.

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buzzybee · 01/05/2007 11:07

Hi - aren't you all just a box of birds! Am I the only fair dinkum kiwi tho?! Love seeing all these people on line when I am. Just been up to Auckland for work and caught up with an old mate at the same time which was lovely. Saw my GP for the first time today about pgnancy and she was great - but like ALL GPs in Wellington does not do LMC. By her calc I'm due 22 Dec!!! Going to see ob next week so hope to get date confirmed by a scan (a bit earlier please...). I don't want him to be my LMC tho so will have start ringing around midwife groups sometime soon I guess. I had a homebirth in London so thankfully missed out on some of that bad stuff by the sounds of things. Hi Ghosty and Sibble, seems a long time since we met at Cornwall Park - glad to see you're both still mumsnetting!

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sibble · 01/05/2007 19:55

hi buzzybee, good to see you back on line. I had quite a long break after DS2 was born, but have got back into it again over the past few months. There are quite a few of us here, the English invasion, although there are one or two home grown kiwis. Good luck with your pregnancy and finding a midwife. Keep us posted.

MrsJohnCusack · 01/05/2007 21:15

oh I love 'box of birds'. my mother always says that, people never knew what we were on about.

buzzybee, although I was born in the UK, both parents are Kiwis and have moved back here now after doing 6 months in each country for about 12 years (mad). So I'm not exactly homegrown, but I do have dual citizenship (but now confusingly have two children with different citizenships for the moment)

MrsJohnCusack · 01/05/2007 21:18

(I mean my parents did 6 months, not me)

ghosty · 01/05/2007 22:48

Nice that we are a 'box of birds' and not 'a box of frogs' (as in 'mad as ...')
Buzzybee ... I didn't realise it way YOU, the very same buzzybee we met that day ...
I have always wondered what happened to you - I missed that you went off to London for a spell
I was pg with DD then ... she's 3 and a bit now

twentypence · 02/05/2007 02:17

Oh, in that case I've met you too. I had the 10 month old that could only eat kumara. Who had a allergic reaction at kindy today - other kids were having cake so I sent a choccie bar in - guess what - he reacted to it. And then phoned me 4 times and dh had changed my ring from a "pick up the phone your child is dying" ring to bloody KT Tunstall and I just thought it was one of the computers in the classroom being random and ignored it.

So I feel like a shit mother.

MrsJohnCusack · 02/05/2007 02:22

oh no
is he OK now? Don't feel like a shit mother - you're blatantly NOT.

sibble · 02/05/2007 03:09

oh twentypence I do feel for you, everytime DS1's school rings my heart leaps. It has never been an emergency thankfully. Don't feel like a shit mother, how is he?

ghosty · 02/05/2007 03:16

Oh no 20p ... poor you, poor Bob ...

Is he ok?

Agree with others, you are NOT a shit mother ....

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