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Friday, June 19, 2020

A compliment

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I took Amaia to the optician the other day to pick up her new glasses. While she was fitting Amaia's glasses, I decided to chat to the ...

Go girl!

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Interesting conversation: Amaia: When I grow up I'm going to be a fashion designer. Me (surprised): Really? I didn't know you wer...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Comparing schooling costs in Denmark and Scotland

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I've been puzzling over this for a year now... How can it be that this trip (350km/217 miles each way using a train, a coach and a fer...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Home at last

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Yesterday morning in Glasgow there were four flights from the usually busy international airport. We'd managed to get a ticket fo...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Fashion trends

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Maybe I'm just getting old, but can someone explain to me why these have suddenly become the must-have fashion item for teenagers around...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Yeast again

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Denmark mostly doesn't feel like a very foreign place but just sometimes you some across a situation you would never encounter at home.....
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

A strange move from Lærdansk

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I started my Lærdansk course on the 3rd of January. All foreigners who move to Denmark are eligible for a course in Danish to help them inte...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Far gris!

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Last night we went to Ikea to buy a bed for Lots, assuming the buggers on the border ever let her come home 😒 As we were walking toward...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Schools back!

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After a month at school alone, Amaia was finally joined this morning on the school bus by her older siblings. Léon is so excited he's go...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

What an exciting week

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It has been an exciting week in lockdown world. First on Wednesday I went to IKEA for the first time since it reopened and there were people...

Poor wee hands

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One thing we have noticed here, now the under 11s have been back at school for three and a bit weeks, is the toll it's taking on their...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Spring

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My orchard has burst into life in the last few weeks - we are going to have so many apples, pears, plums and cherries this year😋 a...

Thomas's car

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I'm never fully sure whether I love or hate Thomas's car - nicknamed 'the boge' (short for bogey) by the kids. It is true th...

An unexpected consequence

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I'm beginning to notice an unexpected consequence of the new way Denmark is schooling its under-11s. Amaia has been back at school for...
Friday, May 01, 2020

What a find!

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Like a tiny ray of sunshine in all this chaos, I went shopping in Aldi yesterday and discovered that this week's special in the ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Too bighearted?

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Well, this is going to be controversial but it does help sometimes to see ourselves as others see us... I have lived in Denmark for nearly...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Glasgow in lockdown

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Lovely wee video of Glasgow in Corona lockdown. Hopefully once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the city empty.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Today's outdoor lesson

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Today's outdoor art lesson was 'tree trolls'. Each kid was given a tree and some clay in the playground and made to make a troll...

Jumping rope

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Growing up in Glasgow in the 70s, there wasn't an awful lot of playground equipment - no climbing frames or pirate ships graced the...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Lockdown, the funny side.

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Conversations you only hear under lockdown: Anna: My German teacher had her clothes on for today's lesson!  Me: What does she usually...
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