Family Car Travel – Let the Playlists Take the Strain
Making Car Journeys Fun The landrover is parked up for the day and now to enjoy Edinburgh! It’s time to dump Tim. Mick picks out Sexy Serena as our new SAT Nav Guide. I object and choose the more straitlaced Jane, she has a direct, no-nonsense, trust me voice. I think she sounds reliable until […]
Preparing for the Worst – IB Exam Results and Beyond….
How to Stop Stressing over Exam Results Only one more day to wait for results. The IB Exam Results will be with us tomorrow; it’s a little bit like waiting for Christmas day only you really don’t know what Santa will bring. He won’t necessarily reward kids for being good and hard-working! The truth is, […]
IB, A Level, or GCSE – Preparing for the Dreaded Results …
Getting Ready for Exam Results As a family we are going up to Edinburgh at the weekend. Saturday is also the day that Betsy is due to get her IB results – yikes! We need to get ready for whatever results may arrive – good or bad! We’ve been saying we will need to be somewhere with […]
Are you the favourite child?
Who is the Favourite Child? (Jump to the end to evaluate the type of child you are.) I’m out with Saint Mick, not in Thana City in Bangkok or in Broughton, Lincolnshire. I just texted both of the girls actually, (note the direction of the correspondence-me to them, not them to me), to see how they […]
Expat Local or Local Expat? Same/Same but Different!
Living Abroad or Living at Home Mick took Dad out for a drive to the Humber Bridge in his new Landrover – Lazarus! Back in the day when dad was crane driving he helped build it, in fact legend has it, he built it singlehandedly! I was driving through the village today, on the way […]
Wendy Mitchell’s Somebody I Used to Know
Wendy Mitchell’s Somebody I Used to Know This week I’ve been spending time back in Broughton and just chilling with family. It isn’t wild, but is very lovely. In the gaps I’ve managed to read the memoir, ‘Somebody I Used to Know’. I came across it online as I follw Wendy Mitchell’s blog, ‘Which me am […]