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Last week I wrote about “The Big Freeze” and this week I write of “The Big Thaw” – but I am not really sure if it is about the weather, or more about simply how quickly things can change. How the world can look one moment and then how different it can be the next, [...]

Snow, snow, everywhere! There is no place on this island that is the United Kingdom, where you can hide away from the snow at the moment. Either you embrace it and love it and make the most of it or you have to go and hide inside, sit tight and wait for the big thaw [...]

If you missed last week’s post, or if this is your first week of ever reading this blog then do yourself a favour and at least go back to last week’s story before reading on with this one, as this new entry begins with a continuation of our road-trip to Wales. Monday morning started with [...]

Here I am blogging from a hotel room in the beautiful old city of Bath. Just how popular is this blog to my regular readers that I would drag my laptop along on holiday with me and sit up until after midnight to write the story of a week in our lives? Thank you to [...]

I knew this was always going to be an exciting week to write about in this blog because Jon was coming over from South Africa to spend 3 weeks with us over Christmas and New Year, but I never expected this week to turn out the way it did. Living in EL all my life, I [...]

I want to start this blog this week; by sharing something that has just been on my mind all week and to try and illustrate it I am going to borrow a short speech. This is the start of Kate Winslet’s acceptance speech from the Golden Globe awards for Best Actress: “I’d be lying if [...]

5 months! We have lived in the UK for 5 months! Does it feel like 5 months? Well, actually to me it feels like 10. I think we have packed so much into the months that we have been here that I can’t possibly imagine that we could have done so much in such a [...]

(My apologies for the quality of the photos used in the blog this week. The only photos that I took this week were taken with my mobile phone camera.) Ok! So, it is officially getting cold, even by my standards. This weekend sees the arrival of a bit of an Arctic blast! Our temperatures have [...]

This weekend marks the 1-month marker to when our days will start getting longer again. I know that the worst is yet come and that it will still be a long cold winter, but when you put in perspective and look for the silver lining, it really doesn’t seem so bad. The Salt Grit buckets [...]

I have felt a renewed motivation about the blog this week. So many people who I never suspected were reading this blog contacted us this week with loads of compliments. Nicky, your reaction was undoubtedly the best! Nicky only found out about the blog this week and she sat down and read almost all 19 [...]