To feel the sun again.

Its finally sunny in England. Its been a good two years since I have felt the warmth of Summer. The last two years has been so wet… you couldnt call it Summer.  We have been out in the garden most of the day. All I felt like doing was sitting and baking in the sun. [...]

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Basic hygiene aka Wash Your Hands.

Here is a little friendly reminder about basic hygiene.  Really, with all the talk of swine flu its a good time to remind people how to be clean and how germs spread.  I don’t care if Swine flu comes to anything or not, flu, colds, and other things, especially food poisoning are here living with [...]

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An Apple changed my life (Hiatal Hernia)

I have suffered on and off for years with a Hiatal  Hernia . Such intense stomach pain. So many nights I have wondered if I was having a heart attack. My esophagus in spasms. Never, ever feeling well. How many days, weeks, months, or years would it total up feeling so horrible. I have lived [...]

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Heading into the best time of year.

There is the most special feeling when Spring finally comes to the UK. The gloom of the last few months lifts. Everything feels so light.  The flowers start to come out. Starting with the Snow Drops and then the daffodils. Pretty soon the whole of the UK is covered in the most amazing blooms. Every [...]

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Like night and day

Every weekend my step daughter comes and stays Saturday night and heads home on Sunday.  My son usually starts asking for her around Thursday.  The count down begins. Saturday comes and he waits, looking out the window, very excited that his sister is coming. They sit together on the couch, hugging, happy, playful. My step [...]

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The Uniform

There is nothing more adorable to me then to see the kids heading off from school in their school uniforms. Especially the young kids. The uniforms look like something out of a movie or a childhood book. In the summer the girls are in a checked dress, boys in a shirt and trousers or occasionally [...]

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Its all changing fast.

In the past 5 yrs of living abroad I tend to brace myself when someone on telly brings up the US. It usually has some form of America bashing attached. I had to stop watching shows like Loose Women because there was something nasty said about my homeland daily. Subtly quips. Underhand bashing. Very fashionable [...]

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a decision

We live in rural Cheshire.  Its a small town with no high street. No good restaurants. No real grocery store (one that is so high in price its infuriating) Typical town church. Loads of pubs and a few crappy take aways. This small town feel is not what I am used to, although I have [...]

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New Years in the UK

So its my 5th New Years here. Strange how fast time goes by. I have worked everyone but one, when I was pregnant. Still, after all these year it feels foreign to me. The basic tradition is there, a count down,  the Happy New year hoot, then ol lan sine, but… you stand in a [...]

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This is gonna do my nut in!

For Christmas our neighbors, who live on the other side of our semi-detached house and share our path, bought their son a basketball hoop. So every morning and every nap time this kid is out bouncing the freaking ball. They ball, on top of being noisy, is bouncing a mere few feet from my car. [...]

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