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• Cutting Room Floor

  

  I’m off-air while Liam and I are perking our pansies on pretty Paxos. While we’re away, here’s a selection of photos that ended up on the cutting room floor,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lakka, the Return

  

  I know I sound like a stuck record, but we’ve really had it with endless drab skies and drizzle. A few sunny days does not a summer make. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Merry Husbands of Windsor (Part Two)

  

  Day two of our merry Windsor trip was big castle time. I’d forgotten how relentlessly busy the town gets. The castle receives about 1.5 million visitors a... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Merry Husbands of Windsor (Part One)

  

  For about six years until 1993, I lived in Windsor. The pleasant Berkshire town is famous for one thing – an enormous, sprawling castle. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost Boys and Fairies

  

  Sometimes something just turns up without warning, punches you in the gut and has you reaching for the Kleenex. Such a thing is Lost Boys and Fairies, the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not Gay At All

  

  Back in the seventies, catalogue shopping was all the rage and buy now, pay later was my old Mum’s mantra. The entire family was kitted out on the never–never,... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Even the Ducks Are Pissed Off

  

  These constant rainy days are really starting to get on my tits. I’m not unfamiliar with big weather. As an army brat in faraway Malaysia, there was the annual... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seven Swans A-Swimming

  

  With the sun finally poking through the grey clouds, we grabbed the chance to take a walk down by the River Chet for the first time in an age. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• And a Partridge in a Pear Tree

  

  The rural flatlands of Norfolk are habitat heaven for the birds – fields and forests, rivers and wetlands provide the perfect breeding ground for an eclectic... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fifteen Seconds of Fame

  

  Earlier this week, I sprinted through the half a million barrier for pansy hits. When I say sprinted, it’s been more of a gentle stroll, and it’s taken nearly... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Come Rain Or Shine

  

  Even by the usual erratic standards of these rainswept islands, the weather so far this spring has been damp and dismal – rain, rain and more bleedin’ rain, wit... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Where To Now St. Peter?

  

  We fancied another pilgrimage and we settled on Peterborough in neighbouring Cambridgeshire, with its epic house of God. While I may be a dedicated heathen, I... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Red Bus Rover

  

  It was our ‘wax’ wedding anniversary last week – sixteen years and counting. We’ve already got enough candles to light a small chapel, so they were off the... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Les Misérables – Not Glum At All

  

  Affectionately known as ‘The Glums’, the spectacular musical ‘Les Misérables’ has been a London fixture for nearly forty years. I’ve seen the West End productio... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Making Mischief

  

  After a few months of hard graft and long days for the publishing shenanigans, we indulged in a little retail therapy in Norwich followed by a few sherries in... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Opening Night

  

  We love a wacky musical and they don’t come much wackier than Opening Night, a brand new West End show from the pen of singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Now That’s What I Call Acting, Dear Boy

  

  Dustin Hoffman is a famous devotee of the ‘The Method’, where an actor tries to get right under the skin of a character to deliver the most authentic... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• All Good Things…

  

  In late 2008 we jumped the good ship Blighty and washed up on a Turkish beach. For our first year, we dropped anchor in Yalikavak, now a flashy resort with a... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• From Social Outcasts to National Treasures

  

  London is a gloriously haphazard, jumbled up kind of place where the rich and the ragged sometimes co-exist cheek by jowl. The Boltons in West London is an... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Ordinary Hero

  

  Sometimes real heroes are just ordinary people who do extra-ordinary things. One such ordinary hero was Nicholas Winton who, following the 1938 German annexatio... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2024 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION