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• Devil Gate Drive

  

  We made our great escape from Stalag 17 and dashed to Morrison’s Supermarket to stock up on cheap plonk, check prices and observe the local Suffolk wildlife in... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pontin’s Happy Campers

  

  The final leg of our budget trip was four nights at Pontin’s, Pakefield – seventy quid each, half board. Both Liam and I are well-acquainted with the holiday... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Windy City

  

  The minor inconvenience of existing tenants meant that we had to wait a while for our medieval Weaver’s cottage in Norwich. To avoid continual sofa-hopping, we... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• London Turks

  

  While looking for a new gaff to lay our hats we boxed and coxed with trunks in tow. Some of our time was spent with Liam’s folks in Edmonton, North London. The... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do You Have a Tale to Tell?

  

  QuestTurkey is a top notch property and lifestyle website about Turkey. I’ve been lucky enough to feature on the site a few times in the past. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• School’s Out

  

  Travel may well broaden the mind but upping sticks and relocating to a foreign field can blow it completely. The best laid plans may not prepare you for having... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Edge of Glory

  

  Blimey. Perking the Pansies has made the long list of 10 for the prestigious Polari First Book Prize. I popped along to the Polari Literary Salon at the Royal... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marriage Equality Or Marriage Apartheid?

  

  Typical indecisive liberal Libran, I’m all in a silly tizz. I just can’t make my mind up about the Government’s marriage equality law. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• We’re All Immigrants Really

  

  I recently tuned in to a debate on BBC Radio Norwich. It was about immigration, something of a national obsession in Blighty, particularly now that the recessio... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Essential Lessons for Expat Living

  

  Pat Yale (she who put the pat into expat), has been writing for the Today’s Zaman, one of two Turkish national newspapers published in English. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Picking the Poppies

  

  I’m always chuffed to hear from people I don’t know who take the trouble to tell me how much they enjoyed reading Perking the Pansies. It’s even better when I... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Letter from Ephesus

  

  Image: Thomas DepenbuschNo journey through Asia Minor is complete without a tumbling tour of the ancient wonder that is Ephesus: world heritage site nominee... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• ‘Allo, ‘Allo Norwich

  

  Throughout the Middle Ages, Norwich was England’s largest city outside London and, until the eighteenth century, vied with Bristol to be the Sceptered Isle’s... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arrested Development

  

  Just before we clambered aboard our life raft and paddled back to Blighty, we learned that the popular and dashing Mayor of Bodrum had been arrested by a... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Off With Their Heads!

  

  Our loft aspirations turned to dust. Someone else reached the finishing line before us and we were back to square one. Do not pass go, do not collect £200.... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Preserved in Aspic

  

  Mission accomplished on the flat front, we said our temporary goodbyes to old Norwich Town and ventured back to London. Norwich has remained a bit off the beate... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lofty Pretentions

  

  After viewings that ranged from the dreary to the dreadful, we found our Norwich city center loft in appropriately named Queen’s Street. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bodrum’s Crusader Castle

  The Crusades is a dirty word in the Middle East. It’s hardly surprising. All those unwashed and smelly chain-mailed warrior knights, bloodied sword in one... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sleepy Norwich

  Blazing June in Blighty is a damp squib. As Bodrum hit the low forties, we were welcomed home by angry black skies and our first walkabout around Norwich was... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s a Fair Cop

  

  One of our favorite Bodrum Belles took us to the airport for our airlift back to Blighty with Sleazyjet. We shall be forever in her debt. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION