Jackscott

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1092 )

• 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

• Magical Mystery Tour

  

  We boarded the bus.Where’s he taking me? A little rural retreat with ancient beams and hearty fare, deep in the flatlands?We boarded the train. Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcards from Corfu Town

  

  Knickers in the WindOur final night in Corfu (or Kerkyra as the Greeks call it) is a slow meander through Corfu Old Town, a labyrinth of lanes and alleyways... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcards from Albania

  

  When in Greece go to AlbaniaIt’s only three miles from Corfu at its closest point so it would be rude not to. We sailed the hydrofoil from Corfu Town and here w... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcards from Corfu

  

  The A GaysWe chose simple and we got sublime. Our billet is a modest studio (A1 for the A Gays) overlooking a sparkling pool. All we have to do is drag our tire... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gay Britannia

  

  If you are LGBT, 16 or over and living in the UK, Her Maj’s Government wants to know about your experiences of living in our always green but not always pleasan... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Home Sweet Home

  

  While we’re away in sunny Corfu chomping on the mutton, slapping on the sunscreen, gassing the bugs and gagging on the retsina (despite sage advice to go easy o... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• In the Footsteps of the Durrells

  

  We’re off on our hols to sunny Greece. Seven heavenly days round a cool pool in Corfu. We’re flying out from Norwich’s very own international airstrip – small... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION