• Drip Drip Drip, little April showers……..

      We landed in Aberdeen on Friday the 30th of March, to bright sunshine and a slightly cold wind. By Sunday we had snow and by Thursday we’d had hail and rain.  In fact I remember saying to someone, that one of the things I was looking forward to the most, was the ‘weather’. 4 …

  • All good things must come to an end…..

    but they also have to start somewhere as well. Several things happened last year that made us start to question this thing we called the Expat bubble. Our granddaughter was born, our youngest left for university and we also discovered a lovely brand new branch of our family. Most week days there are the skype …

  • Step away from the phone………..

            My name is Amanda Barnes and I am a visual media and internet junkie.     I can read on average, two books a week. I have loved movies and tv programmes for a very long time and I can fling up movie or literature facts quicker than I can tell …

  • We’ll meet again……….

    February is a particularly rough month for me. On the 2nd, it will be three years since I lost my dad. I was going to write this post then but realised that I probably would be even more maudlin than usual and wanted this year’s ‘Dad’ post to be more positive than previous years. I plan …