Review of “What About Your Saucepans” – genre: expat
Rediscovery, liberation and romance abroad – it might sound formulaic but if it’s handbags, engagement rings and martinis you’re after forget it... THIS IS CHICK LIT WITH BALLS!
Childhood Is A Foreign Country
At five I played ‘Ring-O-Ring-O-Roses’ and ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf’. I went to birthday parties, passed the parcel, ate cubes of pineapple and cheese off cocktail sticks without ever wondering why, and danced unabashedly to ‘The Birdie Song'...
4 Tips For Raising Biracial Children
A century ago, no one would've guessed the United States would have a biracial president. Many thought mixed-race people were destined to lead tragic lives, fitting into neither the black world nor the white one...
Petrol be praised, we’re mobile again!
A cause for celebration! After a year of pedestrianism in the country where Car is King, we are finally getting our own set of wheels. After months of trying to find ways around the various restraints imposed by a work visa we lucked out with a sweet deal from the boys at Jeep.
Britain vs. Canada
The question I asked myself the most throughout my first year in Canada was, " Which is better then, Britain or Canada?" or "So, which do I like best, Britain or Canada?" or a thousand other variations on the same theme, to the extent that I even made a list of "Things I miss about Britain and things I would miss about Canada if I left".
