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On my latest visit to her house, there came a moment when Matilda, my five-year-old granddaughter, thrust an etch-a-sketch at me and said, ‘...

There are things to establish when you move somewhere new. You know, find a doctor, identify a well-supplied grocer, work out your way aroun...

Living in the province of Valencia in Spain gives us a lot of joy. The only serious downside, and it might be a lot more serious in coming y...

‘The problem,’ the saying goes, ‘is the English can't remember history, while the Irish can't forget it’.  My mother gave me a fine ...

We like to think of ourselves as good immigrants, Danielle and I. That makes us  want to get familiar with our new host country and, specifi...

‘Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it’. That ’s  a Shakespeare line that always amazes me by how many situations it applies to...

One hundred years ago today, what a different place Britain was. Only a few months earlier, in September 1923, when Britain officially took ...