Jackscott

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1059 )

• Art for Art’s Sake

  

  I don’t know the first thing about art. Like beauty, it’s all in the eye of the beholder. I do know a lot of old twaddle is said and written on the subject. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Taking the Bull by the Horns

  

  After a dull, damp winter, the spring has been warm and friendly – pale blue skies and wispy clouds – perfect weather for back-garden BBQs and slow walks along... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lucky Jack

  

  Liam and I know how lucky we are. We don’t have children to feed, educate and amuse. We don’t have elderly parents to care for. We don’t have serious physical o... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Rainbow Tree

  

  If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. No, not teddy bears having a picnic but a rainbow tree adorned with ribbons and messages of hop... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Drinking Through the Crisis

  

  I cannot lie. I was so relieved when off licences were added to the list of essential retailers. A dry lockdown would be way beyond the pale ale and, thankfully... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great British Bake Off

  

  It’s just as well Liam and I get along. Pressure cooker living 24/7 could strain even the most intimate relationship. Our neighbours are also in confinement... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Water Sports

  

  Life may have slowed to a trickle but that didn’t stop a couple of water pipes choosing the worst time to burst – one in the loft and another beneath the bath. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead as a Dodo

  

  It was just a few short weeks ago when we were in London for my old girl’s 91st birthday. Everything then was normal. The Tube was packed and the streets... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life in Lockdown

  

  We awake each morning to a cacophony of birdsong and days have merged into one. Life in lockdown passes at a snail’s pace with tasks expanded to fill the time... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Donkey and the Great Dame

  

  “Chloe the lovely donkey who has led the Palm Sunday procession from Alpington School to Yelverton Church for many years, has left the area. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• You Gotta Roll With It

  

  With much of the planet in the grip of a coronavirus, we’re social distancing by buckling down watching the Chase on the box with our feet up. We venture out... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Petty Prejudices

  

  “Ar ya brothers?” asked the driver in broad Narfuk as we clambered into the back of the taxi. Here we go, I thought. We’re gonna have that conversation again. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Missing You Already!

  

  I first met Clive Smith a few weeks into our first year of secondary school. My very first memory was him doing a skit of ‘The Fenn Street Gang’ – some of you... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Two Up, Two Down

  

  Our little house is one of a small row of four workers’ cottages standing proud next to the 12th-century parish church of All Saints. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• United Against Dementia

  

  All sickness is cruel but dementia has got to be one of the cruellest of them all, robbing the victims of their very essence. Sadly, we’ve been rather touched b... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cheers from Gran Canaria

  

  It was the calm before the storm. We flew out just before Storm Ciara barrelled across the flatlands on the Jet2 poofs and pensioners express to Gran Canaria... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Made in Dagenham

  

  Released in 2010, ‘Made in Dagenham’ is a gritty, evocative and warm-hearted film about the female workers at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, East London, who,... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rain, Rain, Go Away…

  

  Since we became village people, hardly a day has passed when it hasn’t rained – drizzle one day, deluge the next and endless dreary skies. Even the ducks have... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hotpot, Ken?

  

  Now we’ve moved on to fresh fields, my five-day-a-week gym routine is no more. Whereas I was once able to stroll to my city centre torture chamber, I’d now... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do You Have an Expat Story to Tell?

  

  I don’t normally mix business with pleasure but I’m making an exception this week. Regular readers will know about the cruel murder of fellow expat author... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2020 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION