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

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

Published February 3, 2014
Categorised as Photography Tagged Family life, Lake Ontario, photography, the expat family

We Hunkered Down & Pressed On…

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 …

Published January 10, 2014
Categorised as Expat Life Tagged Canadian Winter, Expat Experience, Expat Focus, highs and lows of expatriating, the expat family

Heating A Canadian Home

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…

Published January 9, 2014
Categorised as Expat Life Tagged Canadian homes, Canadian Winter, difficulties faced by expatriates, Expat Info, the expat family

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

What is it about getting spooked that makes you giggle?

Published December 16, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Photography Tagged Canada, Family life, photography, the expat family, Weather, winter

Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

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…

Published December 4, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged Canada, Expat Experience, Paris, Places to visit, reasons to love Canada, the expat family, Tim Hortons, tolerance and acceptance

Ties That Bind – What makes us ‘belong’?

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?

Published November 6, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged belonging, cross-cultural, Expat Info, heritage, identity, TCK's, the expat family

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’…

Published September 12, 2013
Categorised as Expat Life, Life in Canada Tagged Canada, childhood memories, Cultural Differences, Culture, Expat Experience, school, TCK's, the expat family

Wherever The Fancy Takes You

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…

Published September 4, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Photography Tagged Canada, Family life, Lake Ontario, photography, Summer, the expat family

What happens to the kids if you die overseas?

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

Published May 7, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged Expat Info, Family life, global citizens, TCK's, the expat family

The A-Team

The A-Team

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

Published February 21, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged creativity, Employment, international employment, overseas job, Résumé, The A-Team, the expat family
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