On a recent trip to the UK, I sat down with a journalist, from a small coastal newspaper, interested in the sort of person who leaves their mother country to start again on the other side of the world.  And in this space, he asked me questions that no one ever has.  This blog is…

I don’t know if you know this about me, but I tend to give most things in my life a name.  My car is called Esther, my house plants, Doris and Dulcie, my cat Pumpkin! Like most of my choices,  I knew my kitchen had to have a name and that the name would come…

I’ve recently learned that renovating an old one is very different to installing a kitchen in a brand new home.  Having never, ever done anything like this before, there were massive lessons for me, everyday. November 2013, I began planning what was to become a major part of my life for 7 months. The renovation of…