The past is a foreign country, they say, but in my case the past is also my own country, which means that my own country is a foreign country. And…
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We are still in lovely Northamptonshire. It’s starting to feel like we did move – and now we live here. A confused friend even sent me a text saying, ‘How…
We’re going to be homeless until November, so we’re cooped up at my parents-in-law’s house in Northamptonshire while our things make their way to Finland by train, then lorry, then…
The approaching move is bringing out two less-than-ideal behavioural traits in me. At the best of times I’m quite results- and action-oriented, and if I know there’s something that needs…
My list of worries about Finland had both dwindled and grown. We’ve put some more of the big rocks in place – movers are now booked and we have an…
Moving house is one of those times in life where you end up having the same conversation millions of times. It goes like this: This is the trunk conversation and…
A partial list of the things I’m low- to medium-grade worried about with the Finland move: Only one major piece of the puzzle is yet to be slotted into place,…
I moved to the UK this month in 2010, and I will move back to Finland in about a month’s time, making it a pretty round 13 years abroad. Or…
My older son lets his imagination loose at bedtime and often calls us back in to tell us what he has seen or heard in the dark. Once he said…
One of the unintended consequences of a heatwave is that afterwards your house has several new occupants. Ours is crawling with flies, moths and spiders that came in through doors…