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a chair fit for a Queen
Hi there, Do you like my new chair? Beautiful huh? I bought it yesterday in Konongo from a store which sells all manner of ‘chiefly’ items. How cool is that? Kente cloth, wax print, embellished...
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getting my (crafty) mojo back
I’ve been a sewer, a knitter, a cutter, a gluer, a printer and any manner of crafty business for a long time. Although, I do suck at colouring in, much to my kids disgust. But, since we have moved to...
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photo of the week – a community service announcement
Can you imagine this sign on the streets of Sydney? New York? London? Overwhelmingly Ghana is a very polite society. Sure you hear raised voices and of course violence does exist, but in day to day...
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what makes you happy?
So what does make you happy? And why do I have an apparently random picture of a pretty average road? There are the universal precepts of happiness: friends, family, meaningful or useful work or...
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one year
Yesterday, Valentines Day, is one year since we arrived in Ghana as a family. I hardly know where to begin to make sense of this year and our new life. Other than to start with the irony of arriving...
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Max the monkey
We’ve got a new pet! Crazy right? He was our best kept secret…since we arrived back in Ghana we’ve told the kids there was a surprise coming. And coming and coming…these things can take a while. It...
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get into the groove
Yay it’s time to go grocery shopping…again! Holidays are officially over and reality is here. Time to get back into the groove. This means school, it means seeing dad on the weekends and dealing with...
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Our neighbourhood.
In Kumasi we live in a new, large, white apartment block, imposingly fresh on the join between two roads; one asphalt, one dirt. During the day I park my car admidst the weeds and fire scars on the...
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Life in Accra – Lost on Tettah Quarshie
It’s amazing the difference 200kms can make. We’ve been living in Accra now for three weeks. School has started. I am no longer terrified of Tettah Quarshrie interchange. We have met some lovely,...
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Home, places in the heart
Since moving overseas I have become intrigued with the concept of home. About the ties that bind us to a place, even if that place has not been ‘home’ for years, even decades. I have expat friends who...
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