Today we had a drive out to Little Morton Hall. Its a National Trust site and its not really all that far away. This hall is from 1510. Its all higgly piggly. Very cute and definitely what you think about when you are an American coming to the UK. We climbed the stairs up to [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Little Morton Hall
Posted in England, Uk, day out, expat, family, national trust, tagged cheshire, England, Little Morton Hall, national trust site, travel, Uk, UKJ on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five years on.
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, expat, family, house selling, parenting, tagged expat, long distance relationships, moving abroad, romance, visas on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was about 5 yrs ago about this time in Sept that I was heading home to California. I had been in England, staying with my then fiance, for 4 months. In that time we had gone from having met in person once, to having lived together for 4 months. We had traveled to Spain [...]
Why does something that should be so simple, be so hard?
Posted in England, tagged bad customer service, Internet, web design, web pages on September 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have spent the last two weeks trying to put together a simple web site. Just as I started to look at the company who hosts our domain our Internet provider did the upgrade we ordered a few weeks before. What was supposed to be a flawless upgrade with no downtime ended up being 11 [...]
Everything can change in 1 week.
Posted in England, Thoughts, expat, family, house selling, tagged fresh start, future, laid off, looking ahead, move, redundency on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its been a week now since S got laid off from his job. Since then, everything is up in the air. We don’t know what we are going to do. Even the move is on hold for a bit. The exchange rate has dropped so much that we would end up losing nearly $20k with [...]
