Welcome! Where did you live in the UK before you moved to Perth? I grew up in England, lived and visited there off and on all through my childhood and young adult years. Mum was British, from the Manchester area, and I had family there but most are gone now. Still have cousins but they are quite spread out - Aberdeen area in Scotland, Milford Haven in Wales, and Birmingham. I'm in Washington on the Pacific coast now, Navy wife to Victor as it says in my signature block, and our daughter lives just a couple of hours away.
I took a break from the forums while we moved from the East Coast to the West, bought a house, and I went back to work full-time after being a lady of leisure for two years. Vic is off to a posting in Okinawa in the late summer but we've done the separations before in our 25 years of Navy life so we'll make the best of it. I'm so glad to be back with my MHH family and looking forward to Christmas in July when everyone shares their ideas around a set of themes we came up with, or just makes a theme of their own. It's all about Christmas so whatever you share will be wonderful.