February 4th, 2010
Maidenhead. My home of the last five years, my first five years in the UK. I have friends here- new friends made during my adjustment and settling here in this new country, new relationship, new home, new customs and new experiences. I received my British Citizenship in Maidenhead.
I almost know my way around. But it’s [...]
January 31st, 2010
Neil and I went on a fairly impromptu adventure down to Cornwall yesterday to look at three new home possibilities. Four hours down, four hours back and a bunch of wandering around the country roads between was worth it. The picture above shows the back garden view of one of the houses we saw – [...]
January 18th, 2010
All my US life, the ritual leading up to moving was to scavenge and beg for reasonably clean, sturdy cardboard boxes from wherever you could get them. For free. For my last UK move, I was fortunate enough to be employed by a company that received loads of things in nice, clean, sturdy boxes and [...]
January 14th, 2010
Or perhaps not a flu. The fine husband and I were both taken down with full body aches and fever/chills, but we seem to have come through it. Working from home means we are out and about very little and so I wouldn’t be surprised if some enthusiastic junior virus thought he’d start building a [...]
December 18th, 2009
A mess of the wintery stuff fell on lots of England overnight.
I could take some lovely ‘proper’ photos out and about, but that would mean, like, going outside and stuff. Brrrrr…
November 1st, 2009
This is a November to celebrate. I’ll soon have a new business open and operating, a second novel draft in the bag after the close of another NaNoWriMo, and a body of work prepared for my first ever art fair booth (fair taking place in early December). If all that isn’t enough, on the fifth [...]
September 23rd, 2009
They even put stars around my last name…
I received my Certificate of naturalisation yesterday and am now a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. The ceremony was a small affair of five of us pledging, a handful of guests, and two employees of the Register Office in Maidenhead. We [...]
September 16th, 2009
Yessiree-indeedilydo! I have received a letter from Home Office UK Border Agency inviting me to attend a ceremony to complete my journey to British Citizenship!
I have arranged the ceremony, and so next week I shall be a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. Soon — likely in the new year or [...]
