Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
I keep remembering (and forgetting, and remembering again) that Easter’s coming up. Holidays are often a little tricky as an ExPat (assuming you want to celebrate), but this one is trickier than most. The toddler thing is tripping me up. Easter Chicks on a Boat by Nickstone333 on Flickr I’m not convinced Isaac will really … Continue reading Hop to it?
I can’t really believe Isaac’s two today! It was a little over a year ago we got the news and decided to move to the UK, and he has really taken this crazy year in stride. He’s grown from a barely-mobile baby with cake in his hair, to a real boy – running, yelling, jumping, … Continue reading Two!
It’s grey here today. Exceedingly grey. And cold. And there is nothing like reminders from Timehop about the fact that this time one year ago, I was in Cuba, and two years before that, in Thailand, to make me feel extra grumbly about the grey and cold. So I scrolled further back in the past, … Continue reading Six years later
Moving house can often lead you to see your possessions in a new light. Especially when you have packed in a hurry, without making much effort to thin your piles of stuff before beginning. And are then distanced from that stuff for half a year. Because who the hell brings tea (from the new world, … Continue reading Tea-mendous
Rest of the set here. Continue reading Wordless Wednesday – Oxford Photowalkin’
So, India! We went! I am always at a bit of a loss when it comes to describing trips to such iconic places. Like I should have more to say, or have come to some great spiritual revelation, or have tales of a long, strange trip, returning with tales of the walrus, set to sitar … Continue reading India – Part 1 – Wedding in Madras
I was going to go for a run today. Instead, I am watching the “fitness” app on my TV update. And will then proceed to do nothing about it once it has. I’m really just curious about the app, not interested in exercising right this moment. That is very much 2012 speaking. I took a … Continue reading 2013: a little more conversation, a little more action.