Things I miss...

Oh my GOD!  I miss Tampax Compaq!  You can, if you're lucky, get hold of regular Tampax but most of the tampons sold over here are non applicator ones, which I loathe with a passion.  I'm actually tempted to beg to have a load of Tampax mailed to me, I hate the tampon culture over here so much.

Also Ariel liqui-tabs and Comfort fabric softener.  The washing machines and washing powders/liquids over here are rubbish.

Things I miss

I miss my daily hit of quesadillas!  Actually I miss the all round goodness of the food I ate in Auckland!!!

Things I miss

I miss Tropicana orange juice with no bits in.  Seriously, I've scaled Foodtown and New World for this sort of orange juice but to no avail.  You can either get smooth orange juice 'with an apple basis' or orange juice which is ridiculously pulpy or orange juice that you don't know what it's like because it's in a carton and it has nothing on the carton to tell you 'with bits' or 'smooth'.  It's rubs.

Things I miss

For like three days the headline news on TV here was the rights to the 2011 Rugby World Cup going to either Maori TV or TVNZ.  Seriously, practically nothing happens here so that makes big, big news.  What I'm saying is that I miss stuff happening.  Or at least I miss knowing about stuff happening.  Also none of the news programmes are up to much out here.  So I probably also miss BBC News.

I also miss Sainsbury's and actually English supermarkets.  The main supermarkets here are Foodtown and New World and both of them are rubbishio compared to our supermarkets.  Also, they call pepper 'capsicum', which is just ridiculous and wrong.  FACT.

Things I miss

Being able to bitch with my family about politics, especially with the whole Nobel Prize thing.  I have literally nobody with whom to discuss this for a long time.

I also miss The Times.  Especially the Sunday Times.

Things I miss

I know it's really child and verging on the pathetic but I'm really missing having somebody to look after me.  Be that a coffee or lunch being brought to me or having dinner cooked for me or having a glass of wine with Deborah/Becca/Carly after a bad day/week or going to Anna's for a cup of tea!  I'm not, like, crying myself to sleep or anything but it did dawn on me today that I now actually have to be 100% self sufficient.  And, let's face it, that's rubbishio.