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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1059 )

• The Naughty Square Mile

  

  It was high time for a little naughty fun in the smoke – a chance to spend a boozy afternoon with the London landlady of our Turkey years and an old mucker of... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tales from Hollywood

  

  Two Hollywood stories caught my eye recently as I flicked through my newspaper and sipped my coffee in a local café. The first was the revelation that comedy... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Baby, It’s Cold Outside

  

  A Siberian cold front  – ‘The Beast from the East’ – has rolled in from Europe,  cloaking the flatlands in a thick blanket of fluffy snow drifting in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Can I Get, Like, a Coffee?

  

  It’s often said that the strength of the English Language is its extraordinary ability to absorb, evolve and invent. All fine and dandy. Otherwise we’d still... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Milk and Two Sugars, Please

  

  This winter’s brought some lively weather to keep us from our slumber and to wake the dead in the funeral parlour next door. Unsurprisingly, the huffing and... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Darkest Hour

  

  There’s been a flurry of historical war films lately and more to come, I’m sure. It’s not surprising, given the various centenaries involving the Great War of... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Come on Baby, Do the Loco-motion with Me

  

  With low eastern skies the colour of Milk of Magnesia, I’ve been pining for the hazy days of last summer when we were giants of the steam age, quite a result fo... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Brokeback Mountain Moment

  

  Recently, I received a solicitous email from an ‘admirer’ who wrote:You look nice and charming, to be honest, I can’t pass your page without saying HELLO to suc... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Old Money, No Money

  

  This is the second article originally published at On the Ege Magazine back in the day. I’ve rescued it from the bin to re-post for posterity. Why? Because I... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• On the Feast of Stephen

  

  On Christmas Eve my thumb began to ache and throb. I drank through the pain. By the Feast of Stephen, it resembled a medieval pox. The image doesn’t really do... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• One Foot in the Grave

  

  There’s one evergreen Christmas custom in the Scott-Brennan household that gets rolled out every year – thumbing through the Radio Times for festive televisual... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Top of the Pansy Pops 2017

  

  Perking the Pansies has recently passed its seventh birthday. It’s quite a milestone, I think. Most personal blogs are lucky to make it beyond the terrible twos. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Twas the Night Before Christmas

  

  It’s Christmas Eve and, after a year of sensible eating, tomorrow we’re looking forward to calorific grub (thank you M S), artery-hardening afters, saturated... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turkey, a Land for All Seasons

  

  I was weeding out my files recently and came across a few articles I wrote for On the Ege Magazine back in the day. Memories of glory days long past came... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Acid Test

  

  Liam suffers from acid reflux – indigestion from Hell – which he controls with early dinners and prescription drugs. In rare cases, the condition can lead to... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• What a Bang!

  

  When we first moved into the micro-loft we tarted up the bathroom and fitted a fancy new shower screen. But East Anglian water is so hard it almost hurts –... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Christmas is a-Coming

  

  I know it’s a-coming because the Christmas lights went on in Norwich last week, enthusiastically witnessed by thousands of over-wrought kids and their anxious... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• But What Are They Eating?

  

  Author Shelley Workinger runs a blog that provides a unique approach to book promotion – food and the consumption thereof. My expanding waistline is evidence... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sex, Lies and Murder

  

  We’ve seen a few films recently, most notably God’s Own Country, a windswept tale of romance and raunch between a monosyllabic, emotionally-repressed Yorkshire... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetry Corner

  

  I’ve just finished A Turbulent Mind, A Poetry Collection of a Mother’s Journey with Alzheimer’s by Jay Artale who is perhaps better known as travel writer Rovin... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION