King Cake – For Real This Time!

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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Reparations

I haven’t posted much lately for a couple of reasons: I’ve been busy getting myself back to university (back into student life – it’s more hectic than you might think), changing country as well (trying to unblock blocked bank cards, changing addresses, etc.), but also my laptop kicked the bucket a week ago, so I’m [...]

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Back… home?

For the first time in 15 months, I’m in England.  And guess what – it’s raining!
Well not now, but it was earlier.  But that’s not the point anyway, and even if it was, you have to laugh about it, otherwise you’d cry.  But this isn’t exactly a joyous ‘homecoming’.  I can’t say I missed England much [...]

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King Cake

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a plum tart I made, which started a discussion (look at the comments on the plum tart post) about the tradition of making and eating (well, mainly the tradition of eating) King cake. Wikipedia has an interesting entry all about the different cakes and practices in [...]

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Fear of Death

No, this post isn’t about how I’m afraid of getting old and dying and how I never want to die. It’s about the fact that these days death is such a taboo subject. Sure, we all have relatives who die and we all know that accidents and natural disasters happen [...]

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Blasé attitude?

Last night I got into a discussion with a couple of family members about our attitude to cultural differences. Obviously being a family of ATCKs/highly mobile parents, we have no problem with cultural differences – in fact that’s one of the main reasons for moving around overseas. But what we were discussing was [...]

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