Wednesday, 3 November 2010

what makes home, home?

I was inspried by a blog Josie wrote about roots, an where you come from...the only place I feel sure about coming from is my mum an dad's very special wish that they made once happily married an when they reeeeally reeeaaaly loved each other...i was born here




In Billinge Hospital...which is Billinge, Wigan, but for some reason my birth certificate says Merseyside...which is a slightly unfortunate mishap for me...but hey ho I was a bad mother an bore my eldest in Bolton...but thats another story...anyway when i was born the midwifes (in my mums words) were ''fecking witches) and looked like this



infact i think the one in the middle was my midwife for my very very 1st pregnancy (which again is another story).....Anyway thats where I was borned an then i resided for the next 6 months at number 221 Firs lane leigh....Where for reasons I have not yet been told my dad decided to become a Copper miner in SA an so I spent the next 18 months living in a mining settlement village in Johannesburg, Now I have memories from living here...My older brother Pauls 6th birthday where hornets swarmed the part an we sat inside watching them bat against the patio door mesh...my mum said they were lonely times as my dad worked long hours an all we could afford to eat was cheese an onion homemade pastys (which was cruel cause im lactose intollerant) so why they went I do not know....but then we moved here which is where I class as ''home'' if there is such a thing






I lived here till I was 10 and this is where I class as home....Im not australian by birth but then again who is these days...any white Aussie is prigionated from pikey an scouse theives sent over to do pennence...but were full citiens an so if i ever decide to go back i dont have to buy a ticket on the door...And I do have aussie family....

I have never felt at home in england, I find the way of life here so grim....you work to live here an everyone seems to hate everything....theres no tollerance (hahah coming from an honorary aussie thats an insult an a half) and well come on the weathers shite!!.....but then again heres where I have settled and its the 1st place I have actually stayed in one country never mind one place...(my mum didnt just want new houses she wanted new continents)..Whats left of my English family live here...and well teh weather might be shite but it suts my skin...

But thats just my direct heratage...my Dads from stockport an my Grandads dad was german...My mums family are all irish descendents who were shipped over to aus for being theives :) happy times hahah...(her face when her family tree search came up with this was priceless....so Im from all over...an have been all over...one day i will find out where home is but I dont think its Platt-Vegas!!.....I might actually ask my mum to look at her family tree findings...you never know with the self confessed ''im a princess'' bravado i have maybe ill find some long lost king left us billions of gold dubloons...oooo or even better that I came from a rascallian band of pirates :) 

I think what makes home home for me is where the peopel I love are...and one day I will convince them that australia is the way to go....an on that day I wont even have to buy a ticket on the door thanks to my mum an dads need to not get thrown out an taking of the citizanship  :)

Oh an everyone seems to think In a past life i was from Yorkshire (specifically sheffield) as apparantly thats where my accents from even tho ive never been an know noone from the area....

1 comment:

  1. hooray i'm not the only norman no mates in the world :)

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