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somewhere between facebook and flickr sits fiona
fionagray.blogspot.com
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The story of one person, their boyfriend, and two toddlers, making the smooth transition from England to Berlin in hardly no time at all, and only enough German to say 'I am 13 years old. My sister has a dog.', neither sentence being true, nor useful when having to drag said toddlers round rental properties in order to secure accommodation...it'll be fine...
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The social conscience

Both kids had a big long sleep yesterday afternoon, more than likely because of the heat, so we were able to go out last night for some after-dinner fun. A trip to the park on the bikes, some ping-po...

4 days ago

Stumbling across Stolpersteine

"a person is only forgotten when his or her name is forgotten"Gunter Demnig is in town. Hes the artist who came up with the Stolpersteine project. Stolpersteine are the brass cobblestones tha...

22 may 12

I love it when a plan doesnt come together

Because today I should probably have been packing up our stuff, waiting for the removal men, spending the afternoon cleaning and scrubbing the empty apartment, and moving us into a hotel with a coupl...

21 may 12

Le déjeuner sur lherbe (Berlin-style)

We arranged to meet friends today at Teufelsee, a small lake in the Grunewald not awfully far from Orlas school. Wed heard of it before, but had never been. We were meeting to have a bit of a picnic ...

20 may 12

For the love of asparagus

Nobody *needs* a giant inflatable pillow, but if you try it, youll want one.We went to the best place with the least memorable name Ive been to in ages the other day! Ive had to go and find the leafl...

19 may 12

Deep end boys and west end girls

Uch you know, just a wee young thing I picked up after my new hairdo.If you listen to a lot of the young uns over in the Eastern parts of this city, youll hear a load of crap. The West is boring; not...

16 may 12

Adventures in Groupon: Like I just stepped out of a salon

Forgive me this sudden attack on your eyesight.Its not often I force my giant face on here, but the thing is, Ive been Groupon-ed.Weve been going a wee bit Groupon mad lately. A meal here and there. ...

16 may 12

227 days to go!

Surprise, no its not another countdown to the London 2012 olympics post. Its a remarkably unseasonable Christmas post. Yay! Whats not to love about another wedge of Christmas right in the middle of M...

11 may 12

"A plague of plastic windows on your house!"

These are the windows to my soul. (And that tells you all you need to know about my soul)Im going to tell you about my windows. No, dont you dare click away! Though perhaps you have been waiting on t...

09 may 12

Lego: thats what little boys are made of.

.Wannsee: Thats a lot further out than I thought. Especially when I dont follow the satnav correctly. Orla had a party to go to today. Shes going to be one of these women who has to start getting rea...

06 may 12

Bikes and birthdays and Bambooland.

Bambooland + german book + non-alcoholic beer  = happy birthdayWhat a weekend. In brief: we had lovely weather, we had a birthday, and Orla learned how to cycle. It was excellent. Stevies birthd...

02 may 12

Hudsons Cakes & the best book group idea EVER!

You know how I pretty much cant cook? How a lot of the cakes I make even turn into swampy disasters? How IKEA tends to surpass me in culinary wonder? Well, you can perhaps imagine how anxious I felt ...

30 apr 12

Thats a 100 watt horse you got there, cowboy

I feel like our apartment needs more lighting. We have a problem with light in this place. The ceilings are so high, the rooms are big, and frankly we dont have anywhere near enough lamps. We laugh i...

20 apr 12

Cheep, cheep! But not so cheep for the over 3s

MACHmit: there be giant chairs for people with cameras to have fun, and craft stuff galore going on.This morning Orla and I went to MACHmit, the childrens museum on Senefelder Strasse in Prenzlauerbe...

12 apr 12

This weird Lego thing

Hamish doesnt really like drawing. Unlike Orla who is forever making birthday cards, and Easter cards, and especially Valentine cards, its just not his thing. Instead he likes to make thing...

09 apr 12

Walking, running, & skipping with dinosaurs

In a continuation of our Easter adventures, we went to Freizeitpark Germendorf, which was recommended to us by workingberlinmum, who went there recently. Its a bit of a trek to get there as its outsi...

08 apr 12

Crackpots & cracking times

I should have said my name was Finja. P.S Not only are our real names plastered all over the internet, youll also find them on the wall at the Legoland Discovery Centre, Berlin.Ah, the things I could...

07 apr 12

Were going to party like its 8 years before you were born.

We had a great time. We are quite good at celebrating, I think. There were moments where I felt like I could happily kill some people, and vowed never to have a kids party in my home again, but on th...

01 apr 12

Let the celebrations commence!

5 is a magical age. To say its been longed for is an understatement. And so, the celebrations have begun. Up at 6:30am, a frantic ripping off of paper, a quick, reluctant breakfast, dressed for schoo...

30 mar 12

Moments when social media freaks you out.

Sometimes I really freak out about social media. This morning was one of those moments. I went on to my Flickr account and in my recent activity notifications I saw that some guy, a complete stranger...

26 mar 12

The Expat Experience for Third Culture Kids

I followed a link the other day from an expat community blog site and started reading some stuff about Third Culture Kids or TCKs as they are known. I had heard/read a very little on this subject pre...

22 mar 12 1 person likes this

The taste of homoeopathic dirt

My fluffy patch of hair is feeling a little under the weather.Call me Captain Bronchitis! I have the power! The power to identify the first stages of bronchitis at 20 paces. Bring me a child, and I w...

22 mar 12

5 before 5

You must have seen these things all over blogland. 25 before 25; 30 before 30; you know where people write lists of things they want to do before they hit a certain age, or before their next birthday...

16 mar 12

Choo, choo, choo, theres even a tiny little conga at Loxx Miniatur Railway

All trains powered underneath by hamsters with magnets on their backs, or similar magic.I like to think that when you lie in your bed at night and think of me, train-spotter is not the first label th...

09 mar 12

Playmobil Olympics: Is it wrong to be more excited by this than the real thing?

So, I am still thrilled by the fact that I am now here in Germany until at least November. I couldnt be happier. Well I could but that would involve finding out a giant Tesco was opening up round the...

06 mar 12

EXTENSION!!!!!

Until NOVEMBER! At least. Maybe more! Thats a whole summer! Thats an extra 6 months of joy! Thats 3 months of excellent schooling for Hamish! Thats oodles more mid-week nights out! Thats more time wi...

06 mar 12

Well, you know what they say about Brits abroad.

Hic. Stevie & I were invited to a do at the British Embassy by a friend of ours who works there. Scratch that, by the parents of Orlas best friend whose dad works there - we just live vicariously...

02 mar 12

You got an expat friend in me.

Hey look! Isnt someone who lies in front of steam trains exactly the kind of person you want to be friends with? No? Really?? Oh, well can we be friends anyway if I promise not to do that too often?A...

27 feb 12

Pirate eyepatch comes in handy...yarr!

"Aaaaarrrrggghhhhh!!! I cant see! I cant see!" I appear to have sustained an eye injury during a game of Round & round the garden, like a teddy bear.. Hamish was having a shot doing me, a...

24 feb 12

Exciting things to look forward to..

I have been nice and ill over the past few days. Its been both horrid and pleasant. Horrid being ill, but rather nice to have the luxury of actually lying in bed and being ill. Anyway, aside from bei...

22 feb 12

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