Tag: Relocation
Reflections on Relocation: Part 1
First of two articles, written five months after we arrived in Belgium, comparing the UK to our new home.
Reflections on Relocation: Part 2
The second of two articles looking back on relocation to Brussels five months on. This is my partner J’s perspective.
Totally wired for Belgium
Relocating to Brussels throws up lots of challenges such as how to evaluate Belgian supermarket chains and rewire UK plugs.
Don’t let me be misunderstood
Warning: linguistic variety can damage the quality of your own native language.
Relocating to Brussels: the final haul
Moving to Brussels: temporary accommodation, commune registration, parking permits, utilities, rubbish collection, doctors, dentists.
Buying soap (and the accretion of experience)
Shops close on Sundays in Brussels. So what happens if you need a bar of soap?
Where am I?
As you will have read, we relocated recently. Can you guess where I am from the photo on the right? First person to leave a comment with the correct answer wins a box of chocs Note that family members and best men are not eligible to enter.
Leaving the UK
The things you own end up owning you – Tyler Durden, Fight Club Competition: where did we relocate to? Win a box of chocs When you’re upping sticks, there’s something unsettling about selling off your furniture on eBay. On the one hand, your imperative is to travel light whilst on the other you still catch …
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Welcome home, Scofield
“It’s just a lump of metal” says the guy from the body shop that just fixed up our car, Scofield. “People I’ve delivered to,” he adds after a pause for effect, “they …
- Originally published: 30 Aug 2006 in Editorial
Crash
This ensemble drama about racial prejudice just manages to avoid the risk of oversimplification. …
- Originally published: 27 Feb 2007 in Film
Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino Harvill (2007) After I recently moaned about the commercial fetishization of Haruki Murakami‘s work, I can see this happening again with Natsuo Kirino. Kirino apparently has a back catalogue of …
- Originally published: 14 Oct 2008 in Books
Working in Leeds
I’m currently working in Leeds on Flash sites for a number of well-known brands. I hadn’t really seen the city for a long time, so it was quite a surprise when I …
- Originally published: 19 Apr 2006 in Editorial
A château called Dave
Since the weather had started to turn much colder in the last week, we chose a walk closer to home in the Province de Namur, not far from a previous outing at …
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2009 in Walking
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Ellezelloise Hercule.