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hellkat
30th May 2008, 15:57
Hello, I thought I better start in here, before I burst in on the general forums in my usual pontificating style :whistle: for which I am well known on several other (UK-based) forums: Bikersweb, BCF and 100% Biker are where I'm best known.

Anyhow, I'm back in NZ for Not-sure-how-long: I've been living in the UK (London, for my sins) mostly since 1984, but with the occasional popping-home at far too few intervals. My life might mostly involve buzzing between here and the UK in the next couple of years, not sure yet, thats the general plan.

I have had to leave my beloved bikes/blokes/daughter over there to come and see my dad who is ill - and am feeling a bit lonesome (and irritatingly bikeless). I'm hanging out in Timaru at the moment, but I will prolly end up back in Auckland (where I originate from) soon enough.

So about me: I'm older and fatter than I was when I was living here before. All that lovely Pom stodge has not passed by my hips ... but no less peculiar of temperament for not having been living in NZ. My time in the UK has mostly been spent being a doting mum, I have a beautiful 20 year old daughter to show for it: half Kiwi, half Italian, and born a Pom (poor girl, confusion should have been her middle name)

So I am NOT a Pom. I sound like one - but so would you if you had spent the last 23 years mostly in the Influenza Isles listening to Cockney bastards. But trust me ... I am a kiwi, born and bred, and polishing up the twangs in my accent every day that I remain here, to annoy the Poms with when I am back there? (just practising the antipodean interrogative sentence ending out for style there ...)

I've had my bike licence over there since about 1998 (shit! 10 years! only just realised that, LOL) and have been mostly riding in London itself, with the occasional adventure out of town.

Most of my friends seem to be London couriers, most of whom are in varying (!) levels of bike clubs: a fairly rag-tag bunch of blokeys ... I spend far too much time in the company of rambunctious young (and old) men with a passion for wild-living and wheels: two, four, three, even one (the Hardly Rideables are a club has to be seen to be believed, LOL) ... basically I've lived the last 10 years with a mixed bunch of total nutters, adorable, lovable, but nutters nonetheless.

Life has been ... interesting, to say the least.
So don't expect sanity :bleh:

If you're lucky ... perhaps the odd flash of wit, wisdom, intelligence, and feminine wiles :innocent:

White trash
30th May 2008, 16:03
I have had to leave my beloved bikes/blokes/daughter over there

"Blokes"? Oh I think you'll be VERY well received over here.

Welcome home and have fun.

MIXONE
30th May 2008, 16:03
Welcome home and I hope you live up to your name.

boomer
30th May 2008, 16:06
HI!!!

don't blame the English stodge for your hips... i've been here ( in NZ ) long enough to realise its a genetic thing for oceanics.... probably too many sweet potatoes huh !


any hows.. hi and unlike me, i am a POM without big hips... but i have a beer belly instead

ps.. its farkin cold here too :cold:

blacksheep
30th May 2008, 16:21
welcome back,you will find a suprisingly high proportion of ex uk residents(pohms are prisoners of her majesty,so generally live in austalia)on this site ,probably because we are not persecuted to the same extent as in blighty!

Manxman
30th May 2008, 16:21
Gidday(!)

I'm not a Pom either....except when it suits me:shifty:...but that's not often:laugh:.

mstriumph
30th May 2008, 16:35
hi
welcome
no-body here minds even if you ARE a pom ..... just don't mention the war ....:shutup:

hellkat
30th May 2008, 17:56
"Blokes"? Oh I think you'll be VERY well received over here.

Yes, well, ahem ... but (currently) they are there and I am here :2thumbsup ... and so they can't seeeeeeee me :banana:

Party time :clap:

(you never heard me say that, LOL) :innocent:

hellkat
30th May 2008, 18:02
Welcome home and I hope you live up to your name.

I'm perfectly nice, really, not at all hellish.

Something like a dormant volcano, an apparently solid and respectable surface, all hot and steamy underneath, hehe.
(Although I have been known to blow* from time to time under the right :blip: circumstances)







*[insert word of choice here: stack/chunks/job]
(don't form an orderly queue: I'm all talk, LOL)

Swoop
7th June 2008, 23:42
(the Hardly Rideables are a club has to be seen to be believed, LOL)
So, plenty of chrome and tassels then??? :whistle: