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  • Donuts at Tim Hortons
    Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014

    Weekends in our house are all about the food (this is, after all, home of the #epicbreakfast) so be prepared for shameless foodporn photography. You have been warned…

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    Canada’s influence on your wardrobe…

    November 16, 2011
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    Our Expat Story in The Telegraph

    April 26, 2012

    Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting – an expat wife’s memoir of lost identity’

    May 22, 2013
  • Navigating Snowdrifts
    Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014

    Our weekends generally follow a familiar pattern: breakfast like kings, lounge around in PJ's until the afternoon, then get out and do something with the remainder of the day...

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    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017
    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013

    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011
  • Backpackers
    Expat Life

    Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss

    January 16, 2014

    When life doesn’t promise anything except possibility it seems a shame to turn your back on such a generous gift. What have you done, or planned to do, to embrace the unknown?

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    The Day The Stompin’ Stopped

    March 8, 2013
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    Conquering My Driving Demons

    January 5, 2012
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    Welcome to Canada – the home of over-priced telecommunications!

    December 5, 2012
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    Expat Life

    Start The Day With A Good Breakfast

    January 13, 2014

    Traditionalists claim porridge must contain nothing more than oats, water and salt so that should be all the provocation you need to shake things up a little...

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    B is for... bi-lingual

    A-Z of Canada: B is for Bi-Lingual

    January 24, 2012

    Black Friday – is it a plague? Is it a stock-market crash? No! It’s a shopaholics orgasm!

    November 3, 2011
    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013
  • Tractor-trailer powers through blizzard
    Expat Life

    We Hunkered Down & Pressed On…

    January 10, 2014

    This current freeze reminded me of our first Canadian winter, four years ago. UK southern softies fresh from London life, we had none of the protective, insulating clothing most Canadians take for granted ...

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    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013
    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013
  • Hiding from the cold indoors
    Expat Life

    Heating A Canadian Home

    January 9, 2014

    Being cosy warm indoors while the weather hurls all the winter it can lay its hands on at you is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn't come without a downside...

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    Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past

    September 2, 2013
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    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011

    Getting down and dirty with the wildlife…

    November 2, 2011
  • flash freeze in Ontario, Canada
    Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014

    I'm starting to think I should get my own map and ten minute slot as everything I post recently revolves around the weather, but it's unavoidably the big story here in Canada right now. After a couple of years of unseasonably warm winters, this 'mutha' has left us reeling...

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    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
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    You know you’re settled in Canada when…

    January 24, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013

    I skipped breakfast, grabbed my camera and jumped in the jeep. The Polar Plunge started at 11am and I knew from past experience a couple of minutes delay would mean missing the whole thing...

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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
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    Britain vs. Canada

    August 4, 2011
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Facing Difficulties

    August 22, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: The Icestorm Cometh

    December 23, 2013

    I fell asleep to the sound of ice pellets tapping the window while blue-white flashes from exploding transformers and arcing power lines lit up the sky. In the early hours of the morning the power finally failed...

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    Wicked weather

    August 25, 2011
    Cartoon mosquito

    Under Surveillance: West Nile Virus In Canada

    July 11, 2014
    Backpackers

    Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss

    January 16, 2014
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Christmas, You’ve Changed!

    December 20, 2013

    Christmas in another country brings a curious reminder of the diversity to be found in the universal...

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    Banking in Canada? Don’t bank on it…

    November 4, 2011

    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011
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    Tolerance and Acceptance – subtle differences with a BIG impact

    November 29, 2011
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