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Thursday, September 08, 2022

A little too much haste

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I have too many windows in my house... 28 to be precise, not to mention the five main doors. I got it into my head, given we're in the m...

Omelettes, Muslim men, and death

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  This one is a bit more personal than my standard ones, but it gives me comfort and it makes me smile and is a memory I will cherish, so fo...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Windows or Mac?

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I've been a bit remiss on the blogging front this last year. I guess between my  boob problems  and my   mum dying suddenly  things have...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Mad?

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When I moved in with Thomas the first thing I noticed on his bookshelf was a book entitled 'God mad'. I thought that was a rather st...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

A different kettle of fish

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Since day one Nacho has been a fussy eater... in a good way. Nacho only eats dried cat biscuits. We offered him the expensive wet cat food s...

Meaningless questions with no answers

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Yesterday, driving down to IKEA, Thomas and I were discussing how just 100 years ago the villages around where we live must have had every s...
Tuesday, June 07, 2022

Samosa Friday Buchanan-Widmann

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At Easter we spent a night at Thomas's sister's house. That meant leaving Nacho in the house overnight alone. We weren't going t...

It's good to see things from another perspective

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I considered not publishing this one. There are some things you don't talk about - like miscarriages, menopause, hysterectomies, and mas...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

Southern living

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Well, that's me back from just under five days in Toulouse visiting my oldest daughter. The temperature was on a bit of a downturn, she ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

An interesting way to get to know your neighbours

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I'm concluding that Danes are a shy people. I moved to Stillebæk in the autumn of 2019. Ok, there has been Covid, but that didn't ha...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Finding me

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I just finished Viola Davis's book Finding me. I actually listened to it as an audiobook while I was driving the other day. I'm not...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

What's going on, Scotland?

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I need to go over to Scotland again to help with emptying mum's house. I am looking at 14-18 May. I thought to maximise my time, I'd...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

More than just a car

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We have (or rather, had) two cars: the smaller yellow one, that we bought and that Thomas uses for work, and the larger one, the lease car, ...

Storbæltsbroen

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I like to moan about the fact that the Billund - Edinburgh route is often, though not always, mothballed over the early months of the year, ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

The car

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When we moved to Denmark we decided to lease one car and buy the other - at home we had always bought cars cash, having saved up for them, s...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Different cultural encounters

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When you move to a different country half way through your childhood, you become a different person to the one you would have become... No s...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Summertime

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I woke up late and tired this morning - no wonder - someone stole an hour in the middle of the night... I'm not fully complaining - I lo...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

A granny's legacy

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Most grannies in cartoons and popular children's literature wear a skirt, round glasses, and have their hair swept up in a grey bun. The...
Monday, March 07, 2022

End of the blogging break? Another kick in the teeth.

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I enthusiastically wrote on 11 January that I hoped my blogging this year might pick up a bit after the health hell that was 2021. I genuine...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Kæpheste

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It's been interesting watching each of my three youngest kids' Danish development since we moved here in 2019. Obviously, they could...
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