"I could murder a pint"

[shanthi]

well, seeing as I don't know where the trivia begins and the facts start - i'll leave it up to the mod to move this post as approp.

You see, i am in need of some micellaneous.

So being a Brit away from home 21 years i need a place to air my longings

Please don't send me off to the Brit's expat site - it's full of all those people i was trying to get away from 21 years ago

Waking up this morning i found myself thinking "I could murder a pint!!!" (translation in german.... I would love to have a alcoholic beverage)

not a pretty thought for a middle aged female who doesn't drink much and at 6am too(!)


What it is, is pangs of homesickness. Little moments of longing for creature comforts (my creature comfortsare not usually a pint)

Yesterday, for example, I woke up and thought....oh, I could kill a full englsh breakfast. Not that I ever had a full english breakfast when I lived there, more likely two weetabix & milk.

The vision of bacon eggs tomatoes toast, cereal, juice, even kippers took over for the rest of the day.

These moment come and go, though i was just wondering if any of you had cravings/ longings for creature comforts (clean ones please!!!!)

a few random ones :

mantlepieces
going 'up' to bed
post coming through the front door
milk bottles
walnut whip

Ahhh! there now I feel better and it's cheaper than therapy

[kerpea30]

Well Shanthi, I know exactly how you feel. I grew up in Illinois…considered the mid-west US. There are many things about there that I miss that I may have never done in my life…for instance…I am not much of a Pizza eater and I really don’t like Chicago style pizza but every once in a while I think how nice it would be to get a slice and savor it.

I left Illinois 15 years ago…I have lived in four different places since…Florida, South Carolina, Okinawa Japan, and now Oklahoma. Even though I am not from those places but lived there for considerable periods of time there are certain things you miss about those places, too.

I think it may be just a longing for what we can not have but could have at one time but took it for granted.

[shanthi]

So the longing continued today. As this time of year brings the memories of Guy Fawkes night. Parkin and black peas. The smelss of fire and fireworks.

Oh how I used to love collecting bommy wood and" a penny for the guy (I wonder if kids still do that in the UK or has it become too dangerous.


I compensated by looking out for some sparklers "Wunderkerzen" and have been standing out in the dark already carving my initials in the air.

Not half as good as they used to be. or as big, maybe my hand was somewhat smaller back then


and forty years aand a day too late I sang

"bonfire night
stars are bright
three little angels dressed in white.
one had a doll
one had a drum
and one had a pancake stuck to his bum"


God, I must have had a really sad childhood !!!

[kerpea30]

We did the sparklers when I was a kid, too. Such great memories. Now you have me wanting some more creature comforts from home...

They have this potato chip (crisps) factory in my hometown and you can only get them back home...they are called Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips...mmmm yummy!

I also miss the smell of the sweet corn fields that surround my small town. I miss the snow in the winter...building snow forts and eating the snow (only the white snow...not the yellow snow...unfortunately lemon flavored snow doesn't fall from the sky...LOL!) ;D

[shanthi]

yeah, I knew a few of those guys who wrote their initials in the snow!!!!


My mum's birthday today. I rang her and she typically said "I'm having a lovely day - I've got all my cards in a line on the windowsill"

Very British. We don't go mad on cards in Switzerland. I don't have windowsills either. Nice image though, my mum with her row of birthday cards.

I've sent her what I always send. My love.....priceless.

[shanthi]

went to St. Andrew's church bazzar yesterday.

Probably the nearest I've been to a church in years. Probably the nearest I will ever get to heaven

It's another of those longing to belong moments where I'd normally not been seen dead at ex-pat gatherings, but show me some poppies and christmas crackers and I'm wasailing along with the rest of them.

white elephant stall - and all those ornaments that the Brits have finally let go of.
Raffle, tombola and many mum look alikes with their brooches and M&S scarves on.

Highlight of the day were the tea and scones. Though as the little dear with the teapot smiled and asked "Tea, love??" I was so tempted to say "No, but I could murder a pint!"