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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1092 )

• Tits with Chicks

  

  The top floor of the old Co-op warehouse provides a bird’s eye view of the low-rise streets beyond. England is famed as a wet-weather country but the east is... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Norwich, City of Murals

  

  I’ve always liked a mural, ever since Coronation Street’s former resident charlady Hilda Ogden tarted up her back parlour with a sea view embellished with a tri... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dunkirk

  

  Generally, I don’t like war films. They tend to be way too violent or jingoistic (or both) for me. I don’t do gore or mindless nationalism. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life After My Saucepans

  

  Fellow author and blogger Lindsay de Feliz gave up marriage and a successful UK career to follow her dreams as a scuba diving instructor in the Dominican... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• What’s the Point of Pride?

  

  They used to say,‘they shouldn’t be allowed to march.’Now they say,‘Why bother to march?’Certainly there’s more joy than anger on pride marches these days.... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pretty and Witty and Gay

  

  The words famously not sung by Natalie Wood in West Side Story – and there was plenty of pretty, volumes of witty and oodles of gay at yesterday’s Norwich Pride. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Day the Rot Set In

  

  On this day fifty years ago, the Sexual Offences Act received Royal Assent. The act partially decriminalised male homosexual acts. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• God’s Own Country

  

  On a complete whim, we decided on a mini tour of Yorkshire. As England’s largest traditional county by far, it was a very teeny weeny tour encompassing just... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sticky Fingers and Sticky Knickers

  

  When Mother Nature flicks the switch, Norfolk broads dance in the park. So it’s no surprise the summer festival season is in full swing, with tasty titbits to... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• London Pride 2017

  

  In Istanbul, tear gas and rubber bullets broke up small groups of brave souls attempting to defy the ban of this year’s pride march. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heaven is a Place on Earth

  

  Recently, the wonderful Stephen Fry presented an equally wonderful programme on Channel Four celebrating five iconic buildings inextricably linked with the... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Angels, Monks and the Devil’s Brew

  

  Learning to speak English must be difficult enough, but learning to spell it must bring even the most dedicated student out in hives. It’s just the little game... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• On the Lash

  

  It’s sod’s law. The warmest day of the year so far and I’m home alone. Our large south-facing windows can make the micro-loft a tad sweaty during the... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chateau Norfolk

  

  I heard through the grapevine that a bottle of vino from Norfolk had been recognised as one of the best in the world. It won a platinum best in show medal at th... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The City of Perspiring Dreams

  

  Now their kids have flown, Liam’s sister and significant other have sold their north London nest and migrated to a chocolate-box cottage with half an acre or... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moonlight Sonata

  

  The annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival is done for another year. The festival delivers something for all ages and tastes – from the highbrow to the frivolous,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forget Me Not

  

  I was wandering through our local library last week and came across this intriguing exhibit:The display was made up of 18,000 forget-me-nots, one for each... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Witching Hour

  

  Of late, boozy gigs with ancient comrades from old London Town have been as rare as ginger imams. Somehow life just gets in the way. So, one evening I fired... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• May the Fourth Be With You

  

  The fourth of May was local election day hereabouts. As in many rural areas, the people of Norfolk are conservative with a small ‘c’, distrustful of change and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Avenues and Alleyways

  

  We were in London for cake and fancies to celebrate my Mother’s 88th birthday. The old girl was in fine fettle – fag in one hand, brandy and coke in the other. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION