Ten pound Pomx

so disappointed in this, won't watch again'

First episode has just screened here, have to agree with others who say they’d have preferred a documentary. It’s a good story that’s been mishandled. I’d hoped would be shown here, but one episode is enough.

I assume the daughter’s baby was fathered by someone in England before they left, or am I mistaken? Is it one of the lads hanging about the camp?

Either way, how long are they supposed to have been in Oz? Long enough for Pattie to have become the ‘star’ pupil at the school, and for mum Annie to have gone from being a simple Stockport housewife to a feted sales person in the local boutique, hob nobbing with all the local elite, whilst her poor husband is digging trenches under the hot sun, bullied and ostracised by all his workmates.

No wonder he drinks, and wishes they had never emigrated.

I assume the daughter’s baby was fathered by someone in England before they left, or am I mistaken? Is it one of the lads hanging about the camp?
I thought it happened when she got drunk at a camp party? I won't spoiler it, but it becomes clear that the baby wasn't conceived back home.

Calendargirl

I assume the daughter’s baby was fathered by someone in England before they left, or am I mistaken? Is it one of the lads hanging about the camp?

Either way, how long are they supposed to have been in Oz? Long enough for Pattie to have become the ‘star’ pupil at the school, and for mum Annie to have gone from being a simple Stockport housewife to a feted sales person in the local boutique, hob nobbing with all the local elite, whilst her poor husband is digging trenches under the hot sun, bullied and ostracised by all his workmates.

No wonder he drinks, and wishes they had never emigrated.

That made me laugh!

It's the only way to watch it - if anything can go wrong, it will. It's just predicting what the next catastrophe will be.

The young brother getting upset and wandering off into the bush by himself, getting bitten by a snake but rescued just in time?
The other woman's child being found and telling her to go away and leave him alone?
Dean falling into one of those trenches (which never seem to get any longer and go nowhere) and disappearing under a mudslide?

I am still watching this week by week, not binge watching. Was surprised to see the nurse with the missing son, forgotten her name, is it Kate?, wandering round the home of her adopted son and falling asleep on the bed. Very strange. Hadn’t they locked the door if they went out?

And as for the daughter wearing that tent like coat in the Australian climate? Does she think no one will realise she’s pregnant?

It really is a daft plot, the whole storyline.

Will see how it ends next week.

For those who are interested there is a documentary on BBC 4 at 8pm tonight telling the real story of how the Australian government tempted post-war Brits to their country.

I haven’t watched it but saw last night caught the episode by mistake and all I saw were women and men sleeping with ‘others’ At least three affairs seemed to be going on?
Was that it ?

Thanks, Greenfinch. I’ll look that up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😁

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.😆

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!

A good ploy of your mother's Calendargirl 😁

Callistemon21

A good ploy of your mother's Calendargirl 😁

Not me, that was Greenfinch!