Staffordshire oatcakes,
Stoke City F.C.
Cumberland sausages,
Tea
Family
I miss proper bitter and real ale.... I really used to crave a pint of tetleys. Fortunately I have now become a guiness drinker.. and that stuff is available everywhere.
I also miss properly organised queues.
Would definately go with the real ale but also of course this place!
When I travel to Asia, I always get sent a list of items to take with me, last years from what I can remember:-
Marmite
Tea Bags
Branston
Oxo cubes
Cornflour
Gravey granules
Liquorice allsorts
Chocolate
Cheese
Xams pudding
Pepper mill?
Just waiting for this year's list :shock:
Proper beer, decent teabags, HP sauce, all the usual suspects...
our wonderfull football team
friday in a proper pub with me mates
naff films..shoot madonnas husband pleasee
driving on the correct side of the road
bogs that work properly
good drinking water
a good cup of sargent major tea...made properly..ie stewed for 10 minutes, with 2 teabags, a splash of milk, and half a spoon of sugar, you just cant get tea like that abroad.
Generally, we go away for quite a long time every year. If you are on holiday then you can do new and unusual things. Dine out every night, party, generally live it up. But when you are away for a long time it's the ordinary things you miss.
We take things with us. Oxo cubes, tinned beans, some powdered milk but we don't use much of that and one or two other things as well.
There's a gap in every day and it's between your evening meal and bedtime. On holiday you can fill it by going out - but not if you're away for five or six months.
We used to take a VCR and play a film every night. But for the last three or four years - we have a satellite dish and sky television. So when people say "Do you miss Eastenders", I say that I don't and I don't miss Emmerdale, Corrie, Holby City or Casualty either. Because we watch them. Even Tom - though he pretends he reads a book while I watch them.
Mollie