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    Point & Shoot: A Weekend Of Sugar & Ice & All Things Nice

    February 3, 2014 /

    Friday was a PA day so the weekend started early for us...

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    Navigating Snowdrifts

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014
    dead-butterflies

    Where do butterflies go to die?

    November 9, 2011
    Union Pacific freight car on an over-road bridge

    Point & Shoot: Family life – everyday, like no other

    September 22, 2014
  • Expat Life

    We Hunkered Down & Pressed On…

    January 10, 2014 /
    Tractor-trailer powers through blizzard

    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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    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    Ketchup flavour crisps

    25 Reasons Why Canada Rocks (PHOTOS)

    June 14, 2012
    The Unity Button

    The Unity Button

    October 3, 2012
  • Expat Life

    Heating A Canadian Home

    January 9, 2014 /
    Hiding from the cold indoors

    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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    Looking out across Lake Ontario

    Expat Limbo

    April 15, 2013
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    Top expats on Twitter: Aisha Ashraf – Telegraph

    July 6, 2012
    A-Career-In-Your-Suitcase-cover

    Breaking out of the Box – a review of “A Career In Your Suitcase”, 4th edition

    April 19, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot – Blizzards, books & bumps in the night

    December 16, 2013 /

    What is it about getting spooked that makes you giggle?

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    Supermarket

    The (Supermarket) Help

    August 27, 2013
    Elton John & David Furnish

    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011
    Black and white image of a crowd protesting race mixing in the US

    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013 /

    We pull into the fresh-looking plaza on the outskirts of town, its clean lines and manicured verges incongruous amongst the trees and cornfields round about, like work shoes worn with jeans...

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    Streetlamp at sunset

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013

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

    November 3, 2011
    fragmenting jigsaw head

    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Ties That Bind – What makes us ‘belong’?

    November 6, 2013 /
    The Congress of Freaks from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus in 1922

    A large part of Identity is tied up with ‘belonging’. I often hear people talk about feeling comfortable where they ‘fit in’, they mention places where they ‘belong’ or ‘feel at home’. So how do you know where you belong?

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    Top expats on Twitter: Aisha Ashraf – Telegraph

    July 6, 2012
    Shovelling snow in Whitby, Ontario

    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011
    Tim Hortons sign on bus shelter

    5 Ways to Wind A Canadian Up

    January 14, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Childhood Is A Foreign Country

    September 12, 2013 /

    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'...

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    Urban street at night

    Walking Tall – freedom from sexual harassment in Canada

    June 24, 2013
    B is for... bi-lingual

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

    January 24, 2012

    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Wherever The Fancy Takes You

    September 4, 2013 /

    J & T returned to school today and already the summer seems like a memory. I wrote this piece last week - it feels a million miles away right now...

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    Troubles in Britain

    August 9, 2011
    dead-butterflies

    Where do butterflies go to die?

    November 9, 2011
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    Our Expat Story in The Telegraph

    April 26, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    What happens to the kids if you die overseas?

    May 7, 2013 /

    What are the chances of a pair of TCK’s from equally dysfunctional families getting married and having babies?

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    Investigating relapse prevention in depression

    March 15, 2012
    Old book open on wooden table

    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016

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

    November 3, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013 /
    The A-Team

    If any of you grew up with The A-Team, this'll make you laugh...

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    expat family

    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Thoughts are not facts

    October 22, 2012
    muslims praying in a mosgue

    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Childhood Is A Foreign Country
    Childhood Is A Foreign Country
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Britain vs. Canada
    Britain vs. Canada
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • AND THE WINNER IS...
    AND THE WINNER IS...
  • “D’ya like dags?”
    “D’ya like dags?”
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto

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