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The Little Grief
The inescapable torment I do battle with every time I say goodbye, and today: A hug for my brother, a hug and a kiss for my husband and we said goodbye at the airport. The air around them hummed with their excitement (and nerves, I think—the pressure!) to join friends for a week of golf [...]
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Welcome to BritMums Live!
In a month and a day BritMums Live, the biggest parent blogging conference in the UK will begin and I will be there to welcome you along with the rest of the team of BritMums Butterflies! We’re a friendly bunch of bloggers who are excited to help all the conference attendees who are a bit [...]
Continue ReadingEvery Contact Leaves a Trace, a review
Every contact leaves a trace is Locard’s principle that traces of evidence are exchanged at moments of contact. This first novel, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, a literary mystery by Elanor Dymott is set in Oxford and London, and tells the story of Alex and his enchanting wife, Rachel, and how little he knows about [...]
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Sightseeing where you live
What local sight would you show me if I were to visit where you live? Would you show me a cathedral for the history? A pretty bridge for the quiet contemplation? Your back garden for the special place where you like to spend time? The grocery store for all the interesting foods? A bend in [...]
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The scent of coffee
Friday morning my husband’s bleep went off even though he wasn’t on call. He got up, looked at it, turned it off, and got back in bed. I looked at the clock and it read 5.45 and I toyed with the quickly fading images of my dream wondering if I could return to sleep. The [...]
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Brutes and Bakewells: An afternoon in Ashbourne
Something a bit different for all you Anglophiles today! I’ve heard about this (I think on BBC’s Country File) but never witnessed it in person and I could certainly never write about it this well. This post is in collaboration with Matthew Pink, a writer and editor working in digital publishing. He blogs on travel, [...]
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Love where you live? Or…not?
What do you love about where you live? I have my favourite things, what are yours? Is it the way the light hits the trees in the mornings, melting the frost on the leaves, or the way spring overflows the roadsides in foamy whites and lush, pale greens, or the friendliness of the people even [...]
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Brilliance in Blogging Awards – We’re connecting!
Receiving feedback from my readers is one of the most rewarding things about blogging. I love the comments and interactions, whether they come through as comments here, a conversation on Twitter or Facebook or even when someone I know in real life stops to talk to me about something I’ve written. Connecting with others is [...]
Continue ReadingPostcards from before
No photo here (as I usually do), the images are below… Car stopped on the side of a red dirt road. Windows down, no breeze, hot shade. Lunch or something. I’m staring at dry grass under hot sun, listening to crackling grasshoppers and singing cicadas. Grandparents looking at old landmarks now overgrown, talking about [...]
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Would you give up your citizenship to avoid tax?
My buddies over at MOVEGuides have put together this interesting infographic about who needs to file US taxes in which countries. For a more detailed infographic, see below. Did you know: That there are approximately 6.4 million Americans living outside the United States (not including the military)? That if you hold a US passport you [...]
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Single in the City – An expat novel
I love reading novels about the place I’m going to visit, or the period of time I’m interested in or a lifestyle I’m curious about because they’re an entertaining way of getting to know the place or time or experience. A novel about being a new expat in Britain would have been very useful (and [...]
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Best alternatives to Google Reader
I know. You’ve heard this a hundred times across the internet, Google Reader is shutting down on 1 July 2013. What are the best options for following blogs now? I use Bloglovin’. Why? It’s easiest and the most streamlined for my purposes. I get one email with the most recent updates from all the blogs [...]
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The path that led to this expat life
Can you trace your expat experience back to one moment? Was there a crucial pivot point, a fork in the road, a time when a step in a different direction or a turn of the head catching someone else’s eye (or missing another’s) would have led you down a different path? Russell, who blogs at [...]
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The luxury of having a mudroom
Currently, our mudroom is our kitchen. It’s also our hall by the back door. Ideally, it will one day be it’s own special room, complete with shoe racks, welly organisers, boxes for Stuff, coat hooks, a sink for washing the outdoors off, and so on. It may also double as the utility room, with washer, [...]
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Forty-three is a good age for a blue rinse
Ever since I worked in a charity and a pretty girl with a dark brown bob and a magenta streak in her hair came to work with us for a day I have wanted to have hair like hers. But I have fretted. I told someone at the time that I wanted to do it [...]
Continue ReadingInterview with the American Resident
Move Guides, recent silver award winner at My Currency Transfer’s ‘Expat Star Awards 2013′ have interviewed yours truly. Regular readers will know a lot of what’s in the interview, but there are some new things so if you’re interested in learning just a bit more about The American Resident–and interested in my top 4 tips [...]
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The Little Grief
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Where I Live: Cities (I love this city!)
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Welcome to BritMums Live!
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Keep Calm and Carry Vegemite – an expat memoir
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Where I Live: Vignettes of Green
- Every Contact Leaves a Trace, a review
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Where I Live: Contrasts
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Sightseeing where you live
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The scent of coffee
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Brutes and Bakewells: An afternoon in Ashbourne
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