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Vegemitevix moved with her three kids, her dog, cat, 20 boxes of books and a guitar from the beautiful beaches of New Zealand to Blighty. Why? All for the love of a good man...
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Vegemitevix A Kiwi Expat Mum living in the UK

English - Raising Teenagers, Step Parenting, Expat Life
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Vegemitevix · 1d ago

Moving Stories 2 – Wherever I lay my hat that’s my home

Welcome back to the second expat Moving Story! This time we head over to Spain to talk with British expat Sarah who moved there in 2002. The interesting thing about Sarah’s story is how well she has adapted to her new life, and what country she now considers home. For me, ever the Kiwi girl [...]
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Vegemitevix · 2d ago

There’s a reason why banker rhymes with that word that starts with w

Dear Ms BankerCall Centre Bank Person, I am writing in response to the five text messages, three emails, and two answering machine messages you have left for me within the past 24 hours. I appreciate your attention, but wonder if perhaps, it was just a little, too much. Just a tad. You see, I’m not
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Vegemitevix · 3d ago

When a man loves a woman

The bride is often late. It’s tradition. It’s good for the groom to have a moment to reflect, in white panic – ‘is she coming’? It adds a dramatic edge to the service.Which is fitting, as I’m known to my friends as a bit of a drama queen. There were so many traditional things at [...]
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Vegemitevix · 4d ago

Moving Stories – How was it for you?

Was expat life all you expected it to be?  I’ve been mulling over this question like  a Werther’s toffee over the past six months, trying to decide how to advise would-be expats. I’ve moved internationally over six times now, and have lived in four different countries, in both hemispheres. I know qu
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Vegemitevix · 1W ago

5 ways to pass your exams

It’s exam central in our house at the moment. Not only do we have Son doing his A levels and Dark Princess doing her GCSE’s but we also have my Englishman doing exams for a professional qualification. I don’t have exams, and in fact, thank God I can’t remember the last time I sat an [...]
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Vegemitevix · 1W ago

There’s a special gate in hell

I’ve learnt a few things during my time in England. Some people (yes, thank you dear!) would say I’ve become a little more refined. Not quite so ‘Kiwi country cousin’. I’ve learnt to shine a little less, and not bound up to strangers to say ‘hello’, like a Labrador on heat. I’ve learnt to curl [...]
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Vegemitevix · 1W ago

London town and a diamond geezer

It’s no secret – I love London. It’s messy, smelly, crowded, and whenever I get home I have to literally wash ‘London tube detritus’ out from under my finger nails. But like a bad, bad man, London waggles his naughty finger at me, and I’m his. Most times I head up to London it’s a [...]
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Vegemitevix · 2W ago

How young is too young to be a girlfriend?

Miss Fliss (12) came screaming through the front door, a flesh and bones tornado. Her face was flushed and her wobbly fringe (she cut it herself. Nuf said) stuck defiantly to her hot brow. In her eyes was a glint of panic. My initial ‘how was school’ rapidly turned into; “What’s wrong?” “Nothing. Oh
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Vegemitevix · 2W ago

Walking like an Egyptian

Say ‘Egypt’ and most people think -Pyramids, the Nile, maybe even Tutankhamen. Not me. I’m not ‘most people’. Say ‘Egypt’ to me and immediately I’m inspired by images of big hair, dark eyes in smudged kohl and a certain catchy tune that takes me right back to the 1980s, when I was a Kiwi school [...
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Vegemitevix · 2W ago

The problem with being a career Mum

Like many of my generation I threw myself into mothering, as if it was one of my projects. I didn’t have a Microsoft Outlook folder for it, nor did I have a Project plan… well not written down at least. In my head it was pretty much clear. I knew what I wanted to achieve [...]
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