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When you think of moving to a new country, the furthest thing from your mind is who you will vote for in an election, but the time came just 10 months after our arrival here. So it was time to sit down and start learning about Tory policies and what Labour stood for and what [...]

It has been more than a month since I wrote an entry for Wrightaboutnow. I think one of the things that surprised me the most has been the reaction I got from so many of my regular readers. To those of you who wrote to encourage me to write again, who sent messages about how [...]

Not only was this a busy, crazy, manic week, but we had a 4-seasons week – from thick fog to pouring rain, brilliant sunshine, a touch of frost, heavy winds… we had it all.  This was also the weekend of the summertime clock change and what a difference it makes. This evening I went for [...]

So it is the Equinox. I can’t believe how much I set my life, like a clock on these dates. I don’t know why it matters so much and it’s not a new thing since I have been over here in the UK. It is something I have always done. Perhaps it cuts the year [...]

Here I am, back after a one week break from my writings on wrightaboutnow. I can’t believe that Jon was here for Christmas and New Year and now we are in the middle of March! It feels like only a few days have passed since we watched the fireworks of New Year. Can it even [...]

This is the 34th Sunday night that I have sat down to write a new entry for this blog. 34 weeks, or 65% of a year. Can you believe that time can fly by so fast? I have been startled this week to see how many more of my friends, family, and ex-colleagues have either [...]

Well this was certainly a far less comical week than the one I reported on last week, and I think I may just be thankful for that. The truth of just how idiotic I can be at times is funny when it happens, but not something you want to repeat too many times. Mitchell and [...]

Normally these posts for the blog are filled with stories from our family, things that we have experienced in learning to live in a new country, and they also usually contain some insight into my feelings about life and how I see it reflected in the things I see around me every day. However, if [...]

(Please not that the photos contained in this blog are not mine. They are images that I have taken from Google images). So this weekend set the 7 month marker for the time we have been in the UK. In some ways it still feels like a long time, like we have been here forever, [...]

This is the first time in the 7 months that we have been here that I will be blogging for a two week period in one sitting. I travelled back to South Africa last week to attend my nephew’s wedding. I had doubts before I went as to whether or not I should go, but [...]