search for home Archives - Tracey Gemmell

I Can’t Help You With That.

by Exmoor1 | Jun 30, 2023 | Blog Post, Expatriots, expats, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home

I read an article in The Guardian this week entitled “Never Drink Red Wine with Fish: 10 Famous Food Rules You Can Absolutely Ignore” by Felicity Cloake. It set out to question several well-established ‘rules’ on cooking, such as having your pasta water ‘as salty as...

Searching for Self in the Coronation Crowd

by Exmoor1 | May 31, 2023 | Anglophiles, British, citizenship, relocation, repatriation, search for home

Having settled for ‘distant spectator’ to so many British royal occasions, I decided to experience the first coronation in seventy years in person. I’m finally settled back in England so won’t need to stagger around in the middle of the night watching it all happen...

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...

Remember to Smell the Exmoor Roses

by Exmoor1 | Oct 28, 2022 | Anglophiles, British, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel

October 2022 may have been the most ‘normal’ month I’ve had in a long time. All that happened was the shortest UK prime ministership in history, a family run-in with COVID, and the arrival of our first guests from America since we moved back to England over two years...