January 2012 – December 2021
21-Dec-21 Little and Large
19-Dec-21 Moving. Again.
03-Dec-21 Milestone
06-Nov-21 Glasgow
09-Oct-21 It’s a Wrap
28-Aug-21 A Year of Writing Dangerously
18-Jul-21 Freedom
25-Jun-21 Lockdown Observed
11-Jun-21 Hailing from Hayling
19-May-21 Painting
15-May-21 Moving
25-Apr-21 A Man Walks into a Pub
20-Mar-21 1984 – 37 Years Later
10-Feb-21 By the Numbers
14-Jan-21 You Learn Something New Every Day
31-Dec-20 A Dangerous Year of Reading
21-Dec-20 An Early Christmas Present
10-Nov-20 Lockdown 2.0
29-Oct-20 A Strange Coincidence
18-Oct-20 Holiday II
20-Sep-20 Holiday
21-Aug-20 Closing the Barn Door
13-Aug-20 Summer, Revisited
03-Aug-20 Faking It
18-Jul-20 The Neverending Story
06-Jul-20 Adventures in Baking
16-Jun-20 Lockdown Let-up
12-May-20 It’s a Classic
04-May-20 Quarantine Quandaries
20-Apr-20 Once More into the Breach
10-Apr-20 Going for a Swim
29-Mar-20 Love in the Time of Coronavirus
20-Mar-20 Shedding the Shed
15-Mar-20 Eulogy
12-Mar-20 America
12-Feb-20 As IF
27-Jan-20 New Year Resolutions
02-Jan-20 2020 Vision
13-Dec-19 Winter is Coming
12-Nov-19 America
10-Sep-19 Belfast
30-Aug-19 The Power of the Blog
25-Jul-19 Acqua-phobia
17-Jul-19 Scamophobia
12-Jun-19 Day of the Ziffit
13-May-19 Shropshire
09-Apr-19 Tuesday Morning, 6 AM
01-Apr-19 April Fool’s Day
23-Mar-19 Practice Retirement Update
06-Mar-19 Treading the Boards
24-Feb-19 The Renovation Resolution
15-Jan-19 WTF Primer
09-Jan-19 Lurching Forward
29-Dec-18 Making Space
20-Dec-18 Yes, Virginia
14-Dec-18 Customer Service UK
06-Dec-18 Tales of Renovation
28-Nov-18 The Incredible Shrinking Thanksgiving Dinner
08-Nov-18 Being Flexible
07-Oct-18 Of Socks, Logos and Self Assurance
25-Aug-18 Practice Retirement – half-year review
31-Jul-18 America
26-Jul-18 Another Day in Paradise
21-Jul-18 Isn’t That Special
14-Jul-18 Too Old to OCD
23-Jun-18 Choiring Along
27-Apr-18 Glory, Glory
11-Apr-18 My Name is Michael…
03-Apr-18 Practice Retirement
26-Mar-18 First World, Third Age, Thirteenth Trip
03-Mar-18 The Perfect Storm
16-Jan-18 Sixty-three Years Young
10-Jan-18 Ringing in the New Year
28-Dec-17 Laying Bricks
16-Dec-17 Christmas Passed
03-Nov-17 Television
26-Oct-17 The Patriarch Diaries
19-Oct-17 Expat Taxes
14-Oct-17 Insanity
10-Sep-17 The Force Slinger
30-Aug-17 Moving Stuff
13-Aug-17 Residential Respite
01-Aug-17 Settling
08-Jul-17 Moving, UK Style
28-Jun-17 Lowering the Flag
16-Jun-17 Triskaidekafication
12-Jun-17 Bloody Hell!
20-May-17 Reflections on Having Been a Writer
22-Apr-17 An Era of Music
01-Apr-17 My Final Say on Brexit
25-Mar-17 Cyprus III
20-Mar-17 Cyprus II
14-Mar-17 Cyprus
25-Dec-16 Merry Christmas
10-Nov-16 Trump Means Trump
03-Nov-16 November Already?
31-Aug-16 Lovin’ Summer
08-Jul-16 Life on the Lam
25-Jun-16 To My American Friends
24-Jun-16 The End of the Universe
14-Jun-16 Distress Signals
07-Jun-16 Memories
30-May-16 Retirement Review
21-May-16 Fit For Purpose
08-May-16 Living the Dream
30-Apr-16 Impressions of America
24-Apr-16 State of the Nation
06-Apr-16 Now That April’s Here
03-Mar-16 To Cap It Off
16-Feb-16 For What It’s Worth
10-Feb-16 AFC (American Food Craving)
26-Jan-16 Through a 21st Century Lens
13-Jan-16 Capitulation
05-Jan-16 Toilet Troubles
31-Dec-15 New Year Resolutions
28-Dec-15 Working With What We’ve Got
24-Dec-15 Merry Christmas
18-Dec-15 Retired II – the Sequel
30-Nov-15 Paint It Black
25-Nov-15 Thanksgiving
21-Nov-15 Dr. Google, the NHS and Me
18-Nov-15 Dances With Ghillies
09-Nov-15 Life Among the Zealots
05-Nov-15 I Would Like to Thank the Academy
08-Oct-15 Going With the Flo
31-Aug-15 Is There Room for One More?
22-Aug-15 Working for a Living
29-Jun-15 10 Simple Things That Give Me Joy
13-Jun-15 Me and my Bikes
15-May-15 Clear as a Bell
06-May-15 Modern Anxiety
28-Apr-15 Coming Around Again
03-Mar-15 The Silver Screen
23-Feb-15 Calling All (Recent) ExPats
15-Feb-15 The Lion, the Witch and the WTF
24-Jan-15 Sod’s Law in Action
13-Jan-15 Getting in Touch With My Inner Geezer
07-Jan-15 Denied!
25-Dec-14 The Christmas Miracle
14-Dec-14 Settling In
27-Nov-14 Learning to Love Again
14-Nov-14 FATCA Explained
09-Nov-14 If I Could Turn Back Time
05-Nov-14 America the Beautiful
30-Oct-14 America the Border-ful
25-Oct-14 America the Bountiful
04-Sep-14 Against All Odds
30-Aug-14 Pulling Up Stakes
21-Aug-14 Taking the Challenge
01-Jul-14 Now They Tell Me
09-Jun-14 Taps
05-Jun-14 Joining the 21st Century
26-May-14 Buying Back my Faith in Humanity
12-May-14 Old Dog, New Tricks – Another FRD Cover
03-May-14 Fun with Toilette Paper
10-Apr-14 The Museums of Amsterdam
02-Apr-14 Technology is Not Your Friend
27-Mar-14 The Bikes of Amsterdam
08-Mar-14 Hell-o, You’ve Reached Emergency Services
25-Feb-14 A Little Tiff
30-Jan-14 Because I Need More Piping in My Life
25-Jan-14 Hibernating
31-Dec-13 That Blitz Spirit
21-Dec-13 Next Up, Spring!
19-Dec-13 The Business of Writing
12-Dec-13 My Next Book
05-Dec-13 My Year of Living Languorously
24-Nov-13 Modern Man
18-Nov-13 Monday
03-Nov-13 Anxious About Anxiety
31-Oct-13 America the Beautiful
25-Oct-13 Feeling Foreign in America
18-Oct-13 Home
29-Sep-13 The Eye(brows) Have It
08-Sep-13 A Grand Day Out
05-Sep-13 Writer’s Digest – the End of an Era
27-Aug-13 Across the Pond
16-Aug-13 A Dark Reflection
09-Aug-13 Going to the Movies
04-Aug-13 End of Summer Sale
27-Jul-13 Lazy Days
14-Jul-13 The Exhibitionists
09-Jul-13 Culture Exchange
06-Jul-13 A New Frock for Rachel
01-Jul-13 Virtually Real
13-Jun-13 A Holiday Next The Sea – Part II
09-Jun-13 A Holiday Next The Sea – Part I
28-May-13 Twitter Makes you Stupid
13-May-13 What a Lovely Summer It Was
07-May-13 Facebook Makes Me Sad
12-Apr-13 When Brits Get It Wrong
10-Apr-13 Out on Parole
27-Mar-13 Under the Watchful Eye
19-Mar-13 Bonus Day
17-Mar-13 Happy McNuggets Day
11-Mar-13 Back on Two Wheels
05-Mar-13 A Taste of the Past
19-Feb-13 Wakehurst Place
14-Feb-13 Now We’re Cooking
06-Feb-13 Progress
31-Jan-13 End of an Era
17-Jan-13 Bath
14-Jan-13 But First a Word about the Hotel
06-Jan-13 Foundering in a Sea of Idioms
02-Jan-13 2013 – A Retrospective
13-Dec-12 The Siege
06-Dec-12 Holiday Hide and Seek
01-Dec-12 Day One
20-Nov-12 Weighty Matters
12-Nov-12 A Quintessentially British Experience
06-Nov-12 David Sedaris is Stalking Me
29-Oct-12 About the Book
25-Oct-12 Herfin’ in the Rain
19-Oct-12 Back to Normal
03-Oct-12 Progress
21-Sep-12 Meet Me at the Fair
12-Sep-12 Finding America
28-Aug-12 In With the New
14-Aug-12 Olympic Gains
09-Aug-12 Lighten Up
7-Aug-12 You CAN Go Home, You Just Can’t Stay
29-Jul-12 Sod’s Law
05-Jul-12 Another 4th of July
03-Jul-12 Remarkable
22-Jun-12 Sum Sum Summertime
09-Jun-12 Lunch Boxes
24-May-12 Carrying a Torch
18-May-12 That Special Time of Year
25-Apr-12 Rainy Days and Sun Days
18-Apr-12 Going Native
24-Mar-12 I Capture the Castle
17-Mar-12 Tupperware and Toilet Paper
09-Mar-12 Britain of a Budget
04-Mar-12 Bright Eyes
29-Feb-12 A Decade as an Expat
22-Feb-12 Out of Time: Expat Angst
18-Feb-12 Pancakes and Updates
11-Feb-12 The Frist Degree
05-Feb-12 Trained
29-Jan-12 Belated Birthdays
20-Jan-12 Every Cloud has a Tin Lining
14-Jan-12 The Advantages of Marriage
07-Jan-12 Once We Were Herftones