Posted in England, Island life, Seychelles, Writing for a living on June 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
No, I’m not talking about my husband’s middle age crisis and resulting fallout, even though one reader … someone called Chris something, and I’m guessing is male … sent me a snotty comment that said with all the compassion and eloquence one might expect from someone taking the time to post, “Gee Sandra. Whine much?” [...]
Posted in England, International Adoption, WTF?, World politics, tagged 2008 Olympics, British football, Nazis, Steven Speilberg on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After posting yesterday on Chinese-made choking hazards in the shape of toys in really, really, really bad taste, this story out of Britain provides another.
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, England, International Adoption on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The story I wrote about yesterday out of the UK on one consequence of inaccessible birth information has prompted much attention across the adoption world.
While my contribution to the discussion prompted by this story in the Telegraph was short and general, one made by Robin Harritt, a British adoptee who has been working for adoptee [...]
Posted in England, Entitled to opinions, Expat Living on July 8, 2007 | 13 Comments »
As regular readers know, my adored husband is a half-Brit, which is not the same as a half-wit, but not totally unrelated.
Yes, that’s extremely unkind and so veddy-veddy not PC, but Hey!, some things just must be said.
Mark was born in England and passed some of his childhood there, but most of his growing was [...]
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