Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week was a week of first times.
Category: Miscellaneous Musings
Christmas in March
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesI feel like a five year old on Christmas Eve because tomorrow we will get the keys to our new home. It is not what we thought we wanted when we began our search. The Cotswolds are full of storybook stone houses and we had dreams of a character property complete with a wood burning fire,…
Life for Rent
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn some ways it seems a lifetime ago since I sat in our garden in California and wrote a post about packing up and leaving. In other ways the memory of that day and the emotions are as vivid as if it were only a few days ago. Since moving back to the UK in…
We’re not in California anymore
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve been back in the UK for 4 months now. I like to think I’m fairly well balanced emotionally yet I am only recently at the point where my heart doesn’t do a little flip and my eyes don’t well up every time I think of a California friend, place or memory. I’ve been working on…
Leaving a little bit of my heart in San Francisco
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was 27 when we left England for California. The plan had been to stay for a year or two but it’s now been a little over 23 years, so you could say we fell in love with the Golden State. As I write this, I’m sitting in my garden while the packers box up all…
Kodi Bear
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutesMemories of a top dog