I work from home so I spend a lot of time within my doors. I try to get out for walks and gardening, but most of my time is inside. Our homes are our sanctuaries from the world, the place where we have a bit more control (in varying degrees depending on the age of [...]

  Caravans. I sigh and shoulder slump on discovering that a caravan leads the long, slow queue of traffic. We’ll be a while. Grumble. My daughter is enchanted by caravans and is desperate for us to rent a caravan for a holiday one year. My shoulders tense every time she brings it up. I make [...]

Even if you had never heard of the Keep Calm poster and various spinoff memes, the title of Allison Rushby’s travel memoir would make you smile with understanding. It’s an excellent hint at what’s inside, the adventures of this Aussie family expatriating to the UK for a year, beginning with the decision to just do [...]

I once lived in an exceptionally miserable little block of flats in London. The stairwell was made of grey cement and every corner collected grey dust, faded crisp packets and bits and pieces of stray things so that if you were climbing the stairs with bags, the bags brushed these piles of collections, swirling them [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Expats might love the food in their host country but sometimes there’s just no substituting a flavour from home. Last week I posted about one of the foods I can’t get in the UK that I ask visitors from the States to bring. Most things that I miss from home I can either buy online [...]