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• Tenerife, the Return

  

  To banish our winter blues, we’d booked a welcome pre-Christmas perk to Tenerife for a much-needed shot of vitamin D. But instead of a restorative pick-me-up... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s a Beautiful Thing

  

  On our recent trip to London we strolled past the Greenwich Tavern, just outside the gates to Greenwich Park. Before it went all gastro-pub with real ales and... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ahoy, Me Hearties

  

  Last Christmas, our gift from the in-laws was a fancy meal in a top-notch Indian eatery in old London Town – at a time and date of our choosing. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spoof and Spam

  

  I remember the days when spoof meant imitate for a laugh and spam was cheap tinned meat of dubious nutritional value popular with students. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• They Think It’s All Over

  

  In November 2020, quite by chance, we were asked to participate in a national COVID-19 study being run jointly by the Office for National Statistics and Oxford... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coast to Coast Ireland Walk

  

  I first posted this way back in February 2020 but then COVID-19 took centre stage and the rest, as they say… Two years down the line and my brother-in-law will... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Little Mermaid Makes a Big Splash

  

  The Maddermarket Theatre, former chapel and the spiritual home of am-dram in Norwich, is firing on all cylinders again after a tough couple of years because of... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Doing Our Bit for Ukraine

  

  I’m constantly surprised by the milk of human kindness. Right across Europe the humanitarian crisis created by Tsar Putin’s invasion of Ukraine seems to have... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tickling the Ivories

  

  It’s our wedding anniversary today – 14 years (and counting) since we tied the proverbial and Liam slipped his ring on my finger. What adventures we’ve had. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sucking on a Fag

  

  Who knew that there’s an Italian brand of pizza oven briquettes called ‘Faggetto’? We didn’t until the waitress sat us next to a stack of them at Franco Manco, ... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bottle and Basket, Booze and Bunting

  

  After tripping the light fantastic along Tooting High Street, I took Liam even further down my memory lane with a short hop to Wandsworth Town. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Give My Regards to Tooting Broadway

  

  I spent much of my teenage years in Tooting, a rough-round-the-edges strangely-named suburb in South London. My late, lamented old pal, Clive, was raised there... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Duke

  

  In 1961 a portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya was lifted from the National Gallery in London. Only 19 days earlier it had been ‘bought for the... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s a British Library Thing

  

  Every year I get a statement from the British Library setting out how many times Perking the Pansies has been borrowed from UK libraries. This is followed some... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Another Death on the Nile

  

  I love a whodunnit even when I know who did it. And who doesn’t know who did it in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile? It’s Kenneth Branagh’s second outing as... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Book of Mormon: The Newest Testament

  

  Since they switched the theatre lights back on, we’ve been playing catch-up with all the shows queuing up impatiently in the wings. Our latest gig was the UK... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nuns and Nazis

  

  I first watched The Sound of Music in the sixties at the tender age of seven. To see over the heads of the people in front of me, I sat on an upturned seat.... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Belfast – Should We Stay Or Should We Go?

  

  I was a little nervous when I took my seat to watch Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film about the life of a working-class family in late... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Nimmo Twins – Normal for Norfolk

  

  After a six-year hiatus, local comedy heroes The Nimmo Twins (Owen Evans and Karl Minns) were back treading the boards at the Norwich Playhouse for the second o... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heroes in Heels

  

  Soppy, sentimental old fool that I am, I’m a sucker for a tear-jerker. I cried during the opening Circle of Life scene of the Lion King when I first saw it in... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION