I started making a list of random observations about the UK when I was most aware of them - my first weeks back home last christmas after 2 1/2 years away. I completely forgot to do anything with the list, so here it is:
- pedestrian crossing lights are much bigger but less noisy
- Friday nights are so very messy
- it's much cheaper to use a mobile phone
- there are a lot of knickers above the jeans waistline and current fashion is terrible
- in NZ they advertise heavily against gambling; in the UK they advertise gambling websites
- the variety and range of products available in the shops is IMMENSE
- I haven't seen an umbrella in ages, but they're everywhere in the UK and people persist, despite strong winds, almost to the point of ridicule
- central heating, double glazing and insulation ROCK
- prices seem cheap because I forget to convert and I've forgotten the value of the pound
- it's so nice not to be surrounded by tacky, poncey personalised license plates
- post offices are hard to find and don't offer anywhere near as many services
- it doesn't get much more christmassy than christmas in Scotland
- I finally appreciate the value of the omnipresent streetlong solid shop canopies in NZ
- why doesn't Britain have the public toilet system of NZ?
- Long Tall Sally is the bees knees
- tipping, I'd completely forgotten about tipping...
- what's with the terrible documentary-style pieces in the middle of BBC news?! that's real dumbing down
- accommodation, food and wine are damn expensive
- the UK is still much more cash-based, I'm not used to having to regularly visit a cash machine, but it's great that they don't charge me extra for not using my own bank's ATM
- aaaaaah, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, need I go on? they just don't have this sort of humour or TV in NZ
- Scots are just as friendly as kiwis, hurrah!
Thing is, I adapted back to the UK pretty quick. And I've adapted back to NZ almost as fast.
- pedestrian crossing lights are much bigger but less noisy
- Friday nights are so very messy
- it's much cheaper to use a mobile phone
- there are a lot of knickers above the jeans waistline and current fashion is terrible
- in NZ they advertise heavily against gambling; in the UK they advertise gambling websites
- the variety and range of products available in the shops is IMMENSE
- I haven't seen an umbrella in ages, but they're everywhere in the UK and people persist, despite strong winds, almost to the point of ridicule
- central heating, double glazing and insulation ROCK- prices seem cheap because I forget to convert and I've forgotten the value of the pound
- it's so nice not to be surrounded by tacky, poncey personalised license plates
- post offices are hard to find and don't offer anywhere near as many services
- it doesn't get much more christmassy than christmas in Scotland
- I finally appreciate the value of the omnipresent streetlong solid shop canopies in NZ
- why doesn't Britain have the public toilet system of NZ?
- Long Tall Sally is the bees knees
- tipping, I'd completely forgotten about tipping...
- what's with the terrible documentary-style pieces in the middle of BBC news?! that's real dumbing down
- accommodation, food and wine are damn expensive
- the UK is still much more cash-based, I'm not used to having to regularly visit a cash machine, but it's great that they don't charge me extra for not using my own bank's ATM
- aaaaaah, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, need I go on? they just don't have this sort of humour or TV in NZ
- Scots are just as friendly as kiwis, hurrah!
Thing is, I adapted back to the UK pretty quick. And I've adapted back to NZ almost as fast.
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