Ten pound Pomx

Oh, in my summary of events, I forgot proposal (and acceptance) of marriage by two teenagers who hardly know each other, and said fiancé offering to become stepdad to new born mixed race offspring, which would have been a huge controversial decision back then.

overwrought

Good word! 😁

I did in the end, but it left it open for another series.

So much drama amongst that group, I'm surprised most of them didn't get deported back to Blighty.

It was tosh, but I quite enjoyed it. 😀

No doubt paving the way for series two
I'm exhausted already 😁
Can we take it?

Have just watched the final overwrought episode.

They threw everything at it. Resident perishing (blown up) in his hut, maudlin funeral eulogies, fights, riots, arrests, premature birth involving life saving dash to hospital, attempted suicide, sea rescue, child kidnap.

All in one final hour of drama.

No doubt paving the way for series two.

Not a problem Callistemon. Thanks for commenting on my post anyway.😺

Sorry!

Apologies to Greenfinch a good ploy of your mother's

It's the heat!

Callistemon21

A good ploy of your mother's Calendargirl 😁

Not me, that was Greenfinch!

A good ploy of your mother's Calendargirl 😁

Greenfinch

Callistemon , being only 3 when we emigrated to Australia, I don’t remember much about the long journey except what my mother told me. Apparently my father was prone to sea sickness and took to his bed in his male only cabin. After several days of this my mother sent me in so he had to come out to bring me back. Being my father he took it all in good part.😆

It's a long journey by sea but best to come up on deck and get some sea air.

I've never done that journey by sea but I remember going on a cruise years ago; the woman in front of me on the plane was sick and fidgety all the way, then she happened to be in the next cabin on the cruise. Apparently she was sick the whole time, never saw her until we caught thev plane home again!

Callistemon , being only 3 when we emigrated to Australia, I don’t remember much about the long journey except what my mother told me. Apparently my father was prone to sea sickness and took to his bed in his male only cabin. After several days of this my mother sent me in so he had to come out to bring me back. Being my father he took it all in good part.😆

Our neighbours emigrated to New Zealand early 1975, and even then they went by boat, not plane.

I suppose it was a lot cheaper than flying.

Greenfinch

They also dealt with the long journey to Australia by boat (6weeks) with its dormitory segregation of men and women and how all this affected the people’s mentality.

Yes, the four year old boy who had to go in with the men but kept trying to find his mother ☹

Whereas the drama version has them arriving happily, faster than by plane.

They also dealt with the long journey to Australia by boat (6weeks) with its dormitory segregation of men and women and how all this affected the people’s mentality.

Yes, it was better Aveline
I realised I'd watched it years ago. It was interesting that some had jobs to go to and it wasn't only a case of only being able to do the jobs Australians didn't want to do..

Those who did give it A Fair Go seem to have done well, one becoming the local MP!

Just saw the BBC4 documentary on the £10 Poms. It was very interesting. Fair too. Focussed on those who were unhappy as well as those who did well and thrived. It was much better than the drama.

I'm not sure why they cast a 24 year old to play Patti; she does look older than 16 and the actress who plays her mother, Faye Marsay, is only 36.

However, I hadn't realised that Hattie Hook is Australian so she's doing a good job of playing a POM.

Maybe some Gransnetters thought it was going to be a documentary and so inevitably it would dissapoint

I think there's a documentary on tonight.

Calendargirl
My thoughts too. Take that awful coat off!
As for finding the house open, wandering round - just ludicrous.

Please don't tell us the ending, NotSpaghetti, some of us are watching it week by week! I might write my own ending anyway 😁

Snap Fiorentina!
My "cousin" went from rural Kent in 1957 to small town NZ.

I'm from NZ ie my gt grandparents emigrated in the 1850s and I lived there through much of my childhood.

This pom liked her life there, she studied nursing and met my cousin.
I just think it will have been a big wrench as a teenager leaving your friends behind as it was for me in reverse.

Grammaretto
I have a genuine £10 POM arriving tomorrow. She was 12 when her family emigrated from suburban Birmingham to Brisbane. They stuck it out for 3 or 4 years then moved to New Zealand. I might be tempted to show her the first episode.

I had a real life 10 pound pom staying with me last week.
She hadn't seen the programme and didn't want to.
She had been 15 when her parents decided to go. It must have been tough.
They stayed and she married a local (my cousin) she still misses Kent and returns as often as she can.

Knittynatter

I’ve watched the whole thing and really enjoyed it, believing it to be a drama and not a documentary.

I feel like this too.
But then, like you, I was expecting a drama.

Maybe some Gransnetters thought it was going to be a documentary and so inevitably it would dissapoint.

My disappointment with it (as a drama) was the open ending. I know why but thought it should have resolved.

Thanks, Greenfinch. I’ll look that up.