when you live away from home its more than family you miss, in fact often it isnt family you miss at all...
i never thought tea bags would become such a hot commodity, the criteria for the choice of supermarket being the availability of lady gray, or not. rumours in the town abound when heinz less sugar beans are back on the shelves, friends call each other to take orders and fill trollies directly from the warehouse.
you can get used to washing powder, allergies permitting, and new breakfast radio DJs different voices, the same bla bla bla and well worn tunes, but the one thing, the one thing that never gets easier is the telly. Foreign telly sucks. Even if the programs are from home the timings are all wrong, endless repeates and woefully retro shows with no hint of irony.
this makes the hottest the ticket in the expat community the boxed set, fresh firm conversation fodder, gluttonously consumed often in obscenly indulgent celluloid sessions drifting in to the wee hours. your cache and social circle can be measured by the library of gold dust wrapped in cardboard presented in disk form; the boxed set
well worn boxed sets in the LLSP household
- gavin and stacy
- modern family
- breaking bad
- nip tuck
- sex and the city (sorry)
i never thought tea bags would become such a hot commodity, the criteria for the choice of supermarket being the availability of lady gray, or not. rumours in the town abound when heinz less sugar beans are back on the shelves, friends call each other to take orders and fill trollies directly from the warehouse.
you can get used to washing powder, allergies permitting, and new breakfast radio DJs different voices, the same bla bla bla and well worn tunes, but the one thing, the one thing that never gets easier is the telly. Foreign telly sucks. Even if the programs are from home the timings are all wrong, endless repeates and woefully retro shows with no hint of irony.
this makes the hottest the ticket in the expat community the boxed set, fresh firm conversation fodder, gluttonously consumed often in obscenly indulgent celluloid sessions drifting in to the wee hours. your cache and social circle can be measured by the library of gold dust wrapped in cardboard presented in disk form; the boxed set
well worn boxed sets in the LLSP household
- gavin and stacy
- modern family
- breaking bad
- nip tuck
- sex and the city (sorry)
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