A really cool thing happened to me today. I was at CrossFit just doing my own thing and noticed someone there I hadn’t seen before. She ended up being my partner for a particular workout we were doing and we got chatting. She came right out and asked me if …
Yep. Six whole months it has been since we left London. The good news is, I’m still alive and didn’t die from misery like I thought I would. My heart isn’t completely broken, although it did hurt a bit when Kate had her baby without me in the country (so …
We move to Sydney on Wednesday. There has been a shift lately. Maybe it’s because London is experiencing 30+ temps and I absolutely loathe hot weather, or maybe it’s because it’s time to stop kicking and screaming about leaving the UK … but I feel okay about leaving now. Okayish. …
We leave London in a week. I’ve been neglecting my blog a lot lately because I can’t think of anything funny to write. It’s really bothering me. The purpose of my blog has always been to write funny things about my life, but I’m not my usual self at the …
I’ve only got three more weeks left living in London. Everyone knows how sad I am to be leaving so I won’t go on about it, but nothing has changed and I still don’t want to go. I have my feet firmly entrenched in grief mode where I’m imagining they’re …
I have met some phenomenal people since I started running. Inspiring people who have helped me believe I can achieve my next goal when I’ve doubted myself. When I signed up for my first 10k it was others, not me, who believed I could do it and they were right. …
As most of you know, I’ve always claimed to quite like English weather. It’s not so much that I like the weather as much as I like it being cooler. After 33 years living in Australia and dreading the extreme heat every time December rolled around it was nice to …
After a hectic week of packing up our entire house and living among boxes and no furniture with my four kids, cat, dog and both my parents staying – I am not happy to report that all our stuff is currently at sea somewhere heading south on the APL Barcelona. …
Today was a really shit day. The removalists arrived to start packing up our house. Because Australia is ten thousand million miles away and it takes two months for a boat to get there, we’re sending all our stuff now so it’s there by the time we arrive at the …
In three months we’re leaving London for Sydney. I can’t believe the big move has come around so quickly and the thought of it fills me with fear, anxiety, sadness and worry. I was a totally different person when we left Australia in early 2007. I was broken, confused, damaged …
Yesterday I was at Waitrose. For my non-UK readers, Waitrose is a posh supermarket that charges about 5% extra than anyone else because their stores look pretty. I can’t see any other difference really, their produce and products are much the same as all the other major supermarkets except for …
Today I had an entire day to myself. 9am to 5pm all for me. So I decided to jump on a bus and be a tourist in my own town. I started at Piccadilly. Where my favourite cake shop happens to be, so I stopped for an awesome fruit flan …
Now that we have a leaving date for when we move to Sydney, my London related sentimentality and nostalgic persuasion has gone up a notch. I want to suck up everything I see, hear and do in my last months in London. I want my memory bank stacked full of …
So it’s definite. We are moving back to Sydney in August. I am gutted. To say the least. Not because I don’t like Sydney, I love Sydney. But because I love London with all my heart and this goodbye is especially difficult as it’s so permanent. When we left Sydney …
Because I have a hundred children we have an enormous car. That and because we live in London where you always park on the street and often need to fit into a parking spot only inches bigger than your car, you need a car with parking sensors. I do anyway. …