Dealing with homesickness and finding something disgusting in our garden!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Spend the morning with me as a busy mum of 2 living on the Central Coast, NSW. In this VLOG I talk about homesickness and why I've not been able to film recently. I also show you something I found in our garden that made my skin crawl!
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You're doing so well, a huge, huge adjustment and your videos are so helpful to show the good and the bad. Real life! We are emigrating in the summer and your videos have been so helpful, so thank you ❤
This is so kind thank you. I know I would appreciate these types of videos if I was doing all this again. We all know how amazing Australia is but let's also see the harder times ❤ sending you all the love and thank you for your support x
I love the fact that Kimberley keeps things real. It's so important to know the good and bad. To report things through rose tinted glasses is not helpful or fair to others. I admire how Kimberly is coping with several moves and two kids. I personally think a medal is in order!!! Love x
we used to catch them as kids ,look for shells, climb the tree and find them and stick them in a box and take them to school. You will hear them in the evening , deafening.
SO LOUD but a sound that I also love. ❤ it's a fascinating life cycle for sure! 17 years!!! Wow
Sending big love and hugs to you. You are doing so well, i understand how homesick you get. You are putting really helpful videos out there for us all. Keep going Kim. X
Thank you so much, i really do appreciate all your very kind support :) hope everything is going well for your brother! x
@@kimberleylucas thank you. My brother is very very homesick, he's really struggling at work, but better days are on the horizon as you know. It's just taking time to get his ducks in a row. Shouldn't be much longer. ❤️
Thank you for another lovely blog. I'm sorry you are so homesick Kimberley.
Look after yourself.Sleeting here in Perthshire! love, Maureen x
Thank you - just trying to show as much as I can for others who are making the move out. Hoping we can just get through this rough stage and get ourselves PR which will change a lot for us as a family :) hoping spring will bring some sunshine for you! x
My family and I came to Australia, way back in 1965 (I was aged 5). Australia was a very different place way back then, but life and opportunities were good. In regards to home sickness its a very real thing and hard to manage at times. Hang in there because life does improve and these days family and friends are much closer in many ways thanks to the internet. Over the past decades our family has grown and thrived, we often look back to the early days and are thankful that we chewed through the tough times and enjoyed the good times. Hope this comment helps you and your family on your new life over here. All the best.Thanks Mark
This helps so much yes, i am so determined to get through this rough part as i know Australia has so much more to offer my kids growing up. And its a lovely place to live! We just need to tweak some things and hopefully when PR comes, things will ease up! Thank you for your kind comment :)
You live on the central coast. Once you cross over the Hawkesbury bridge on the F1 you leave Sydney and now part of the central coast.
Thank you - can I ask though, is 'The Central Coast of Sydney a thing or does that not technically make sense?'
@@kimberleylucasyou say central coast because it’s in between Sydney and Newcastle, it’s a separate thing so just call it the central coast
get used to cicadas you will hear them all summer.
We've just gone into Autumn but yes I heard them ALL SUMMER 😅😅 not complaining as I do enjoy the sound:)
When i was a kid i used to cath the cicadas. You have a few different types that are diffrent colours.
a lot of people have told me this - my little boy would definitely love this - he's obsessed with bugs here!
I'm going to show this clip with the cicadas to my mother who migrated here in the 50's from Scotland. She had found a snake skin that was shed and yelled so loud the neighbours came to see what the hell was wrong
When you're not from here or used to seeing this it's VERY weird. Really makes my skin crawl 😅😅
@@kimberleylucas You're doing well, I just laugh with you as it's like a modern day version of my mum's journey here.
@@cyclops92 😅😅 love this!
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your children will be aussies with aussie acents ...you will feel homesick but your doing it for your familys future...they are the most important...
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Kimberley please give yourself a break. It will take a long time to get used to your new life without having your extended family around you. We all understand this so don’t be so hard on yourself please sweetheart. 💜🩷💜🩷💜🩷
A break would be great! haha its full on with 2 kids under 5 on your own all the time without a break! I think this is why im missing family - its the 'village' support more than anything x
Those shells ain't disgusting as they are just out shells of the cicadas. What's disgusting about them when there are a lot of them in trees and you walk underneath them it ain't water droplets you feel it's them peeing. It's not a common thing but it does happen sometimes. No big deal as you won't smell or anything from it. Just a few little droplets.
lovely! haha the noise they make at night is super loud so i can imagine there are a lot of them out there!
Currently in the visa process and seeing so many people say how homesick they are, I know this is bound to happen sometimes but it’s scary! Are we always just thinking the grass is greener somewhere else when in the UK 😩 Hope you feel settled soon thank you for being honest! X
For me it's family. (And B&M!😅) if my family were here I'd NEVER consider moving back to the UK. Lifestyle is so much better here, people are more friendlier/positive. Opportunities for kids are endless and the weather is just amazing. It's normal to feel homesick as everything is different and you are starting again but some things are just harder than others. Especially with 2 young children - it's hard them not being around grandparents ❤
@@kimberleylucas yes I can imagine! We’re coming with 2 young children too and I already feel very guilty so can’t imagine how it will be when it comes to leaving and when we’re there. But then on the flip side I often feel guilty to my kids here when they’re stuck inside with not a lot to do other than the usual soft play etc! Do you think if you came back for a holiday you might fill your cup of seeing family? (And maybe be reminded even more of why you moved) 😂 x
there cicadas very common in australia
Please do video chats with the grandparents , especially , birthdays , Easter and. Christmas . It is better than nothing . I know someone who does that . They contact family and do video chats all the time .
Well, we do work hard out here regardless of the lifestyle .Employers will use their workforce for overtime because it is cheaper than hiring someone else to do that work. My background is in the metal trades /Insulation Industry and I part owned the company .We always used our existing workforce for overtime because of that reason. Our workers always had huge overtime returns and would actually get annoyed if we did not work them on Saturdays and Sundays because it pays the bills .
Whilst I would LOVE to agree with this, unfortunately this is not the case for us. My husband doesn't get any over time for working weekends, or the 10 hours he works extra per week. Do we agree with this? No, but always told its the 'norm' over here and despite it being the absolute opposite of what's in his contract, we are also desperate for PR. I'm hoping you can now understand my frustration and disappointment 😞
@@kimberleylucasas an engineer who lives in tuggerah also on a 482 I get paid overtime from 7.6hrs a day onwards, time and a half for the first 2hours and double time after that, also double time on Saturday and Sunday. So if he’s working over his standard 38hrs for nothing then they are taking advantage of him.
If you happy for me to chat to euan about it I can, I was the guy who asked you to do a video from the his point of view a while back which you then did
Hey Kimberley, we are also a UK family and we live across the road from Westfield tuggerah!
With all the work Euan is doing, is he working longer hours and weekends to help save money for future house buying or because it’s expected he works above his normal hours(just with you mentioning all this is unexpected) thanks
Hello, sorry I never replied to your last comment - just catching up today. Please feel free to add me on instagram and you can find euan that way, I'm sure he would be happy to talk it through. Long and short he works an extra 2 hours per day over and above his contracted hours for absolutely nothing in return, it kills me as it totals to 1 week extra per month. He works for a tier 1 company and apparently they are known for this. He doesn't get any over time at weekends just a day in lieu which I think is shocking. But it's the standard hours he does that affects us as a family. Hope that answers this :)
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hope you are well :) x
@@kimberleylucas I am thanks Kimberly and looking forward to Spring! They are threatening late snow for Scotland so you are in the warmest place! Hope you are settling really happily in your new home. Love x
@krisjames4276 I remember last March it was heavy snow - which was lovely for about 2 days and then it was just annoying and dangerous! Haha spring is however one of my favourite seasons back home, especially with all the newborn animals around! X
Laughing at you and the cicada shells. It’s just their outer skin that is shed and as a kid we loved finding these BUT it would be very weird and creepy if you had not grown up with these around.
17 years of living in Australia and I never heard of it saw these cicada shells!!!! 😂
It's just their outer skin 😅😅 oh my goodness it's awful 😖 😅 but also agree that it's probably because we never grew up with these. Also fascinating however!
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