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 | Oct 31, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Travel
View from the bathroom: Title of a book? Podcast? Punk band tour? Horror film? Maybe not. Hardly catchy or warm and fuzzy or exciting. But this week, now all the boxes have been moved into my new home, ‘view from the bathroom’ is my favourite phrase. I had to make it...
by Exmoor1 | Sep 30, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Humor, Humour, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
Wrinkles add character to our old friend This couch may not look like much now. It’s grubby and wrinkled and sunken in the middle. The cream colour is hardly reminiscent of anything you’d pour over your crumble. Even the dog struggles to clamber in and out. It’s like...
by Exmoor1 | Aug 31, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Humor, Humour, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, writer
And just like that, the end of summer speeds at us like a tourist heading for the last table at an inundated cream tea shop. It’s been a weird old summer, hasn’t it: part supposedly post-pandemic, part not sure, part ‘no, we’re definitely not out of the woods yet’....
by Exmoor1 | Jun 30, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British humor, British humour, Expatriots, expats, Humor, Humour, relocation, repatriation, search for home, writer, writing
Tomorrow I age by a day. Just like any other day. Except tomorrow I also age by a decade, a staggering mental concept that sees all of us on the cusp of a new decade do one of two things: Tear out our hair at all the opportunities missed and the shortness of time...
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...
