Nov
08
All week the fireworks have been going off. Oh yes they have! I suspect that from Halloween through Guy Fawkes, into Christmas and New Year the sparks are going to be flying for quite a while yet. Every night we are able to look out of almost any window of the house and see fireworks [...]
Nov
01
October ends, and with it yet another month in the UK. We are now into November and I am pleasantly surprised with the UK weather for this late in the year. A lot of people are telling me that this is very unlike a normal October, when it comes to weather, so I am not [...]
Oct
25
16 weeks have passed by. I don’t know how and I don’t know where they have gone to? We have celebrated birthdays, taken trips; we have found friends and made a life in a different country. Who would have believed that you could re-create your entire life in such a short space of time? One [...]
Oct
18
What is the difference between the friends you meet today and the ones you have known for longer? When do new friends become old friends? Is there a time-frame to it, or is it more about how you feel in each other’s company? This week has been about friends, but I will say more about [...]
Oct
11
Wow, this week has to be “The week of weather”. Yes, it’s true what they say… The English really do like to talk about the weather, but when you live here, you can see why. It is the most changeable thing you can ever imagine and when it rains it does a pretty good job of [...]
Oct
04
This weekend marks exactly 3 months since we arrived in the UK. A very special friend of mine back in SA, Craig, said to me before we left, that if we could make it through the first 3 months without completely falling apart then he thought we’d be just fine. So, if I could mark [...]
Sep
27
Last week I blogged from South Africa at what was almost the end of one of the most incredible weeks I have ever lived through. On Monday I flew from EL to JHB on my way back to the UK where saying goodbye to Jon again was terribly difficult, but I know that it will [...]
Sep
20
Well, true to form, here I am on blog night, writing from South Africa. Mike, Mitchell and Jenna stayed back in the UK as the kids are well into the school term now. I have been back in SA for the Cambridge High School reunion weekend. This year marks my 20th year out of high school. [...]
Sep
13
You know those days when something goes wrong and just as you turn around the rest of everything else seems to follow the same pattern… Well, this is my first week of blogging with a slightly negative tone, but hang in there and read on, it does end off well. I can’t only tell you [...]
Sep
06
2 Months! Imagine that! We have been here for 2 months already. When I think of all the things we have done and all the things we have achieved, I can’t imagine how we have squeezed it into just 8 short weeks. This week started off a little miserable for me. I returned from Saunderton [...]