It’s a year since I set up ‘Making Here Home’ and started writing this blog. But making changes is never easy; there was a full year before that where I just thought about it, but was too scared to try. What happened between that first year of thinking and worrying and the second of doing? […]
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Last Night a Book Club Saved My Life…
Book clubs. So much has been written about book clubs – the rise of bookclubs, the fall of bookclubs. There are books about book clubs and even a film about them. A million memes about book clubs…which are largely related to the amount of wine consumed at book clubs. So, I know, another article about […]
Home for Christmas?
Are you going home for Christmas? The longer we have lived away, the more complicated the ‘home’ question has become but, at this time of year, the conversation is often about whether people are staying in their current country or returning ‘home’. Going home for Christmas can be wonderful. It’s a chance to reconnect with family […]
Making Friends When You Move Overseas: The F Bomb
Making friends. Not something you normally have to worry about too much, right? But then, when you move overseas and haven’t got any, ‘friends’ can seem like a bad word. It’s lovely when you’ve got lots of them. But when you’re in a new place, and you don’t know anyone…well it’s a word more likely to […]