The Owl and the Pussycat

Lindisfarne - Holy Island

Berwick on Tweed Cafe Society

China Roses

Hong Kong Flower Market

Chag Sameach

This year my husband and I will be "passing over" Passover. We start at 4am tomorrow, flying to Amsterdam then Hong Kong. Then onwards to Auckland and then to our final destination.

For the first time in our five years of marriage, we won't be celebrating Pesach with friends.

Wishing all our friends a wonderful Passover and for those who are celebrating Easter this weekend, a wonderful holiday to you too.

Struggling with identity

For the last two days, I have been doing a very serious walk down memory lane. I was visiting the village I lived in for the first ten years of my life and a second village where my father, grandfather and great grand father grew up.
Memories were almost drowning me they came so high, fast and wide. I left the UK nearly 18 years ago, and today I was taken aback by the emotional pull the village had on me. I didn't want to leave. I wanted to settle again in the area. I'm not sure why I feel the need to be there so badly. I don't know anyone in my grandparents village, and have only one aunt in my home village. I suspect being a wanderer for so long, I have been dying for familiarity and roots.
I hope I can resettle again in NZ.