While the folks in the UK shiver under another thick blanket of snow (isn’t it spring there now?!?) here in SE Qld last night we witnessed the most amazing lightning storm I have ever in my 36 and a bit years seen! I managed to capture some cracking (excuse the pun!) images (on my iPhone!) […]
This week we have a guest post from Dena Barrie, a mummigrant who started out in Denver, Colorado and is currently living in Germany with her husband and two boys. You can find out more about her at itsabouttakingthejourney Enjoy! I’m sorry Frau Barrie, but she has a dog… I’m laughing because a friend of […]
To follow on from Friday’s post, the baby Andrew arrived fit and healthy after a dash by my other half and big son to the local Animal Welfare League first thing Friday morning! There had been a lot of interest in this little fella as you can see on his Facebook page, so the boys […]
oh yes I do! “oh no you don’t” oh yes indeed I do! Another little Aussie amongst a family of Brits down under. A little fella called Andrew who is cute as a button. His bed is waiting along with a collar and lead! Oh! come on you didn’t really think I wanted another ‘baby’?!….a […]
Australia Day in southeast Queensland was a total washout! After the really hot spell of recent times and feeling envious of all the snow back in the UK we are now under threat of tornadoes and serious flooding from ex tropical cyclone Oswald. We haven’t had it quite as bad YET! as Gladstone to the […]
is over! So that’s it! No going back. We have to stick by our decision. Time to move on! It’s going to be difficult, but it’s for the best! It’s caused too many discussions. Too many arguments. Too many tears. There are kids involved too! We need to end this now! So the decision is […]
Earlier this week I wrote about my first experience of homesickness in the post, Did someone say homesick? Writing about it lead me to wonder how many expats actually experience it? and out of the expats who say, “homesickness what’s that?…never had it!” I wonder hand on heart if they can truly say that? mummi […]
Note to self as follows….. 1.Do not let 8 year old daughter install horse apps to own ipad 2.Do not then allow 3 year old son to play on said ipad unsupervised 3.Do not then go out for three hours You will come back to find…. 1.Your facebook page full of status updates and pictures of “my […]
Thanks for all the lovely comments both here and on facebook in response to my post snow versus sand yesterday. To carry on the theme, I’m just wondering if you had to make a snap decision which you would choose out of snow and sand. Please leave a comment as to why if you like. I would choose snow […]
Much like mummi g last week, this morning I woke up this morning feeling terribly homesick. One definite culprit was the awesome snowy scenes plastered all over my Facebook feed this morning by my friends back home. The other was the invitation to my big sisters 40th party. I know for a fact that unless […]
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