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I enjoyed the first series but found episode 1 of the new series a bit tedious. And why do they keep saying “host-Elle” instead of hostel?

Maybe for the same reason that characters in Aussie soaps pronounce ‘crèche’ as ‘craysh’. That was just one irritant when dds were addicted to Neighbours and Home and Away!

@kittylester - I did wonder about that, although the sign at the entrance was spelled hostel. I guess by series 2 the newbies are starting to acquire the Aussie accent/dialect!

@Witzend I never noticed that! I spent both of my maternity leaves being addicted to Neighbours 😁

There is another Aussie book out this week, set in 1978 - getting really good reviews;

The Grapevine by Katy Kemp.

Its on my wish list (I'm big on Audible).

Last night's was a good episode, that disturbing scene in the pub! And that tense ending with the family rescued from the gas.

Realise I am behind with this, only watched the final episode last night.

Am I remembering this wrong, but I thought the very first series ended with Kate’s fiancé from the UK getting on a boat to come over to Oz to find her?

They were supposed to be emigrating together, but she was just using him to get a passage over and trace her missing son.

As far as I recall, he has never been mentioned or appeared again!

I enjoyed the whole series. Watching that made me very thankful that I said no, with good reason, when I was 15. My parents came to chat to me and listened to my answer. Six younger siblings, I have never told them. We all did well in the UK

I nearly went, as my then boyfriend, just qualifying in architecture, got an offer from Wimpey of a job with accommodation for us over there. I'm glad we stayed in UK & Europe, though.

We were planning to be £10 poms, along with our 5 children, right at the beginning of the 70s. We filled in all the application forms, including references, but my in-laws created such a fuss, "we`ll never see you again, etc", that in the end we never sent the forms off. Hubby was a brass bandsman, he`d been promised a place in a band in Tasmania, help in finding a job (he was a skilled tradesman) plusa house to rent until we managed to buy our own. I`ve often wondered how things would have turned out if we`d gone.