Oh yes, I don't like Nadia Swallywotsit either.
I do like Escape To The Country though.
I'm not sure I would fancy emigrating as far as Australia, I think for me that would be just a step too far to go. I'll always remember back in the 80s, the first time we stayed with John's Aunt and Uncle in Niagara Falls, John's Uncle Jack took him out for a beer and said if we fancied giving life there a try he could sort us out with jobs and somewhere to live, he'd sorted a couple of John's cousins out not too long before. At the time though neither of us had even taken the plunge and left home so it seemed far too grown up a thing to do.
Sometimes I wish we'd taken him up on his offer.