by Exmoor1 | Nov 29, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Expatriots, expats, Humor, Humour, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
It’s November 29th and I’ve just posted all my international Christmas cards. You heard me. For the first time EVER, I’ve posted greeting cards in November. Why you ask? I’ll tell you why. ‘Tis the year 2021. That’s why. Now, you may accuse me of a panic...
by Exmoor1 | May 27, 2021 | Anglophiles, British, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
On May 31st, 2020 I crept through an empty international airport in Chicago. I sat alone, masked and gloved, on an almost empty jetliner and arrived at the ghost town that was Heathrow Airport in the early hours of June 1st. I thought those pandemic relocation...
by Exmoor1 | Apr 29, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
I’m archaic enough to still find the ability to communicate simultaneously and instantaneously with people on every continent somewhat of a miracle. When someone in Australia or Bangladesh comments on my social media post five seconds after I posted it, it still...
by Exmoor1 | Dec 31, 2020 | Anglophiles, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
Yes, there have been silver linings to this – what’s the word? – execrable? frightful? odious? insalubrious? (trying to avoid the ‘sh*#!’ word here. Help me out!) year. Some of those linings I dug deep to find (the Hilton points accrued during Hubby’s 139 days in a...
by Exmoor1 | Nov 29, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpower treason and plot. We see no reason, Why gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot. The Fifth of November, aka Guy Fawkes Night, was one of my favourite childhood celebrations, if ‘celebration’ is the right word for...
by Exmoor1 | Sep 30, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, solo travel, Transatlantic, Travel
Bubbles used to be fun, didn’t they? My dog, Basil, certainly thought so. He’d leap around the garden, snapping at them as they bobbed on the breeze. He’d look through crossed eyes in shock when they popped on his nose, like it had never happened before. He’d stamp...
