Daffodils in August

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

On the outside

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

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Oh dear...

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Still in week five, and still being positive

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Five weeks in

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Through a wine glass, darkly prophetic

September 23rd 1990 - continued... We have been in Australia for three weeks – it seems much longer! I can’t buy a tablespoon (15ml), and wine glasses seem much bigger than we’re used to. There’s a moral there somewhere... I have discovered various snags and niggles along the way as you'd expect I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 9, 2009

Week Two

The next few weeks went fairly quickly, finding somewhere to live and settling the children into new routines. We made the long trek to Sydney. It was a beautiful sunny day and we arrived in Seabrook at about 4 in the afternoon. Bella (from the plane) was very welcoming and has continued to be a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

A change of pace

We are still in Sepember, 1990, about one week after I started the journal. We are still in the ACT, it is still very cold, and we are about to leave for Sydney. Wednesday morning, a week later, and husband has telephoned the nice girl from the plane, getting up sufficient nerve to ask for her sofa... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Still only the first week

Arriving wearily in Jerrabomberra in the late afternoon we noticed straight away the biting cold. Australia does have cold weather... fancy that. People always seem to be surprised when I tell them that. We hadn't expected it would be quite so cold though, and most of our winter thngs were packed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Last Leg

We left Singapore a little regretfully at 8pm, promising ourselves we’d be back someday to take in some of the many sights we’d missed in our thirty-six hours. Now we were on the last leg – to Australia! The kids were good at the airport, where we got changed for the cooler winter weather to come,... Sign in to see full entry.

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About this Blog

I have had an unsually complicated life for a long time, and I didn't ask for most of it. I spent almost eighteen years as an expatriate from my home in England and it has been something of a challenge. In writing my story I may be able to unscramble it, assess it and, I hope, turn my experiences to some good. If this helps others in some small way that will be something I guess. It is very much a woman's perception of the effects of undertaking such a venture, at the personal level but also of the impact on family life, which still reverberates and in fact magnifies when the children become adults and make their own choices. In practical terms, I have posted my journals more or less as I wrote them, but from time to time I use italics to indicate where I have added some commentary to the original entry. Names have been replaced by initials or pseudonyms in the interests of privacy.

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