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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1083 )

• Perfect Day

  

  Christmas comes but once a year, thank the Lord. You can almost taste the stress in the high street from the world-weary shoppers to the fixed-grin workers... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

  

  Liam is mended enough to return to work (at a doctor’s surgery, ironically). Broken ribs are a nasty business and it’ll be months before he’s fully repaired. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• From Crack to Smack

  

  Liam's busted ribs are mending slowly but surely and the pain has eased. At one point, I was considering putting him on the liquid morphine left over from my... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Give Us a Twirl

  

  My poor Liam fell badly and broke a couple of ribs. Naturally, most people assume he was a little worse for wear after a few sherries. In that case, he would... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do You Have a Tale to Tell?

  It’s been ten years since Liam and I jumped ship and waded ashore to Bodrum. Ditching the profitable careers did little for our bank balance but a great deal fo... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?

  We were planning to see Bohemian Rhapsody, the new Freddie Mercury biopic. But the reviews have been decidedly mixed, despite Rami Malek’s astonishing... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wine, Willies and My Golden Years

  

  Fewer and fewer people can be bothered to go to an actual shop, buy an actual card, write an actual greeting, slip it into an actual envelope, write an actual... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• You Have My Word

  

  A family ‘do’ took us cross country to Hertford, north of London – three trains there, three trains back. On the way, we changed at Cambridge – ‘the City of... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Star is Born… Again, Again and Again

  

  ‘I’m going to see A Star is Born,’ said a colleague of Liam’s. ‘It’s supposed to be brilliant,’ she gushed. ‘Have you seen the original, you know, the one with... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• No Jacket Required

  

  Liam’s birthday is only a couple of weeks after mine so we tend to celebrate our birthday’s together. When I say ‘celebrate’ I don’t mean razzmatazz, wild... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heal Thyself

  

  Long-suffering readers may remember that during our last days in Turkey I developed peripheral arterial disease which affects the blood flow to my legs. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ripping Yorkshire Again!

  

  The final leg of our great north run saw us in England’s ‘second’ capital  – variously called Eboracum by the Romans, Eoforwic by the Saxons, Yorvik by the... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ripping Yorkshire

  

  The final leg of our great north run saw us in England’s ‘second’ capital  – variously called Eboracum by the Romans, Eoforwic by the Saxons, Yorvik by the... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tatty and Batty Knaresborough

  

  The heatwave is just a distant memory and autumn is here. The mugging sun has given way to pearly skies and so, before we whack up the heat, roll out the... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s a Sin

  

  It’s my habit to pop out for a mid-morning coffee following the torture at the gym. One sunny day I parked myself outside a café to rest my weary bones, sip my... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fancy a Curry?

  

  And what better place to have one than Brick Lane in London, the curry capital of the UK and popularly known as Banglatown? The area has seen successive waves o... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Publishing Lark

  

  I’m so grateful for my new career as an indie publisher at Springtime Books. I get to work from home (tick) and I get to make a little cash to keep us out of th... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Right Side of God

  

  Little ol’ Norwich has been voted as one of the top twelve places to live in the UK according to the Sunday Times (as reported in our local rag, The Norwich... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bee in the City

  

  Along Norwich’s hare course of fifty or so multi-coloured leporids, there are supposed to be over 160 leverets nesting in shop windows or larking about in gay... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Gay with a Bun in Bungay

  

  Last month’s prolonged heatwave, reminiscent of our Turkey days, drove us from the sticky city to the cute little towns of Bungay and Beccles, just across the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION