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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Time to learn to crochet?

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As a small child I spent my Friday nights at my granny's. Granny knitted all her own cardies so I learned to knit. I don't knit ...

Fastfood phonetics

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I was in McDonald's last week... well, there's a phrase you don't hear me say often (it was 1am and I was driving from Copenhage...
Friday, July 05, 2019

Hollyhocks

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When Thomas and I bought our first house with a garden (12 years ago), the first thing he wanted to plant was hollyhocks. I'd had ...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Den fynske Landsby

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Everything on Funen is Hans Christian Andersen. He was born in Odense, so he's everywhere. I use the statues of him to navigate my ...

How to make kids attend on the last day of term

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For the seven years the kids were at primary school, getting them in on the last day of term was never an issue, though it did seem fairly p...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

How our Danish schools do birthdays

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Back at our Scottish school, I used to find birthdays a bit of a burden. I had five kids (granted I only ever had three at primary at the on...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Things... #3

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...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. A garden with a traditional windmill on the driveway up to their house!
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Things... #2

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...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. A wee 'gingerbread' cottage by a lake. (Appearances are deceptive - it...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Deregulation

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      In Scotland we had built up an amazing garden over the 12 years we were in that house. By that I don't mean amazing by the ...

Things... #1

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...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. I thought I'd do a wee photo from time to time of things that make me stop on...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Braving the liquorice

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I've mentioned their liquorice fetish before, but I'm now surrounded by it. On my first day back over here a couple of weeks ago...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

A different take on lollipopping

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This one is for my friend Stephanie! Back at Kirkhill, we had the best lollipop lady. I won't go into the details because I already ha...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Léon's first Danish lesson

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Léon was always going to approach this in a cocky and positive manner. To be honest, I've been quite apprehensive that he might crash an...

First school trip

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As school is winding down towards the summer break, school trips are the thing this week. On her first day Anna was told there are two (fr...

Danish school - day one

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Since we had our tour of the two Danish schools last Thursday, we've had varying degrees of bravado and worry vis a vis going to school ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Flowery selfies

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I took this photo back in Italy in 2017. We'd found a stunning field of sunflowers by the roadside in Poppi in Tuscany. Amaia rem...

Danish school - part one

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So this is how the 'little' three started the school session 2018-19. And on Tuesday, I'll update it to how they are finishing...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Camping holiday?

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We went shopping today in Flensburg in Germany. The big hypermarket was selling four-man tents for the summer holidays, but not just any fou...

Love to travel

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I've been a traveller much longer than I have travelled... From the first time I heard a foreign language, I knew I needed to escape...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

House selling - episode one

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I'm starting this series of blog posts the week the house goes on the market, but I expect I won't be hitting the 'publish...
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