by Exmoor1 | Apr 30, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
I thought March 2020 would go down in history as the most bizarre month of my life. Running through airports in Buenos Aires to beat border shutdowns, selling my house in the US only to find I couldn’t get to England to buy another, tying a bandana around my face...
by Exmoor1 | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog Post
Hubby and I never thought of ourselves as ‘cruise’ people. We met when he was in the Navy and I was crewing on a private yacht. Needless to say, our view of the ocean waves was through a prism of hard work, narrowly averted disasters, and exhaustion. But a South...
by Exmoor1 | Feb 21, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
‘When was the last time you did something for the first time?’ John C. Maxwell I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We spend so much of our lives repeating the same limited array of actions; the routine so ingrained we don’t even miss what we’re not doing. Oh,...
by Exmoor1 | Jan 23, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, writer, writing
The last decade ended with great excitement. I thought I’d purchased my first house in England, ready to move home after thirty years in the US. This new decade began with great disappointment. The purchase fell through. Hand wringing, lamenting, and yelling ‘A pox on...
by Exmoor1 | Dec 22, 2019 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
How can it possibly be twenty years since the whole Y2K thing? Remember all that ‘Your laptop will explode at midnight because it won’t be able to tell the time’ or some such nonsense? Well, nothing happened to my laptop or the oven clock. My car didn’t swerve off the...
by Exmoor1 | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog Post
Pauline Wiles, a California-based British writer, and I first connected via social media after I published Dunster’s Calling. Seems we both had anglophiles in mind as we wrote. Pauline’s novels are set in the fictional English village of Saffron Sweeting, where the...
