Humour Archives - Tracey Gemmell

What to Wear to the Airport: Freeze or Boil?

by Tracey | Mar 28, 2024 | Humour, solo travel, Travel

This time next week I’ll be in sunny Athens. I’m combining this with a few days riding horses on the vehicle-less Greek island of Hydra. Can’t wait. Though the old seat bones are already complaining. They haven’t been on a horse in quite some time. I see their point....

The Best Turkey-less Thanksgiving Ever

by Exmoor1 | Nov 30, 2023 | Expatriots, Humour

Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a puzzler for me. You’d think after so many years in America it would have ingratiated itself a little more into my psyche. Maybe the message of giving thanks was steamrollered under the avalanche of Christmas ‘you gotta have this...

Lights, Camera, Relax!

by Exmoor1 | Jul 31, 2023 | book promotion, British humour, Humour, writer, writing

Lights, Camera, Relax! Ah, the glamorous life of an author. It mostly involves years sitting alone in a room with a judgmental empty page, a head full of ideas, and a cosmic void separating the two. Occasionally it involves a photoshoot. And that, for me, is where...

Pride Comes Before a Hole. Or a Virus

by Exmoor1 | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog Post, British humour, Humour, relocation, search for home, Travel

Warning: the following blog contains scenes that some people eating dinner may find disturbing. Finish your pudding first. I admit it. I got complacent. Conceited almost. I’m at the age where I watch my peers trudge off to hospitals to get hips and knees replaced,...

Finding Myself Online. Or Not.

by Exmoor1 | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, search for home, Travel, writer, writing

Mission: Identify twelve search keywords that would lead others to find you online. Go. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Am waiting… Okay, two keywords. Can you come up with two? I know, right? It’s really hard. But that’s what I have to do as part of a website redesign project...

USA Football Fans on Exmoor? Well, I Never.

by Exmoor1 | Nov 30, 2022 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel

Breaking News: my loved ones are American! It’s been brought to my attention that my husband of thirty-three years and my adult children may in fact be … American. I suppose I should thank the World Cup for opening my eyes to this but at the moment I’m still in shock...