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Taking Stock – the End of Year edition

Pip from Meet me at Mike's started the Taking Stock series and I love it so. I've taken stock a couple of times this year, in January, then in June, post holiday in October and here's the last stock [Read More]

Travel Tales – The Homecoming

The only problem about being ex-pats living in Australia is that we are far, far away from our friends and family and that sucks. A lot. But that's the price we pay for living in paradise. We're [Read More]

2014 – the halfway point

Back in January I wrote a list of how my year was shaping up. Way back  then, I said it was like someone pressed the fast forward button and didn’t take their finger off! This year has been  fast, but [Read More]

Happy Birthday Queenie

I would love to be Queen of  England. Not only because I  would never have to cook or clean again (not unless I wanted to anyway,) but just because I could have 2 birthdays! How cool would that [Read More]

Another Classic Mother’s Day

Mother's Day down under is always a bit strange for me because although it's Mother's Day here, it's not Mother's Day over there. We always celebrate UK Mother's Day because it is after all, all about [Read More]

Eggstra, Eggstra!

Well ahoy there. It seems as though I took an Easter sabbatical, almost by eggcident. The combination of not  being a Christian and  being a seriously secular Jew at  this time of year always [Read More]

My Home is a Hotel

Visitors are like buses. You wait ages for one and then a whole heap come along at once. We've been in the now-not-so-new place almost a year. We spent most of 2013 waiting for vissies, but no one [Read More]