Living life as an expat upside down plays havoc with your senses, most notably because seasons back to front . Â Take strawberries for example. Â To a Brit strawberries are synonymous with tennis at Wimbledon in June. From my teens to my thirties, I was an avid tennis... 
There’s been a loud ticking sound around the place in the last week. Â No, it’s not the cicadas arriving early but the sound of jobs being ticked off the list. Â Well, I confess, it’s actually writing being smudged off the chalk board but I like the... 
With a taste that can be as sharp as their thorns gooseberries are not to everyone’s liking. I love the  crisp bite and piquant flavour that livens the palette whether you eat them straight from the bush or wrap them in a luxurious blanket of cream and sugar.... I don’t know about you but I’m feeling a little short changed by 2011.  It’s been a good year in so many ways but it has passed in a flash and I don’t feel I’m done with it yet. But that’s time for you, running away at its own... Some time ago ham and cheese croissants became a Christmas Breakfast tradition. For years I used croissant pastry you could buy from the supermarket fridge and on the occasions that we couldn’t get hold of the dough we’d fill shop bought croissants but... 
