Yeah, yeah, I know you can find hummus here – there’s a great Turkish community after all, so you will find it sold on quite a few food stalls in town. But, you can’t just walk into any old supermarket and find it, never mind in different flavours like you can at home – […]
Expat
Arguments with the Tooth Fairy
Not much phases the Nine Year Old it seems – including altercations with mythical creatures. To be fair to the “tooth fairy” – the baby tooth in question had actually been left under a pillow – as has been the norm for the past few years (despite my suggestion that the “tooth fairy” might appreciate […]
Cherry Vintage
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you will know that the subject I probably harp on about most is missing friends and family during our time away. Friends and family whose lives evolve without you there, and whose lives you truly feel like you are missing out on when it comes […]
Tales from a Trip Home…
“Home” again after a hectic few days in London… I love really going home, I honestly do, right down to the feeling that I can only describe as the big “expat knot” – a permanent feature in the pit of quite a few of our stomachs I should imagine – unravelling and unwinding itself as […]
Cow Common
Not for one moment did I ever imagine that my offspring would spend so much of their childhoods outside of the UK. Neither did I imagine that the experiences that formed their parents’ childhoods would seem quite alien to them, or even how – at the grand age of seven, my son has yet […]