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Lest we forget

April 25, 2014by Chris 3 Comments

We woke in the darkness before dawn and drove through the rarely quiet streets of Accra this morning to Christiansborg War Cemetery to attend an ANZAC day dawn service. Like […]

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Accra, Australia, culture

Lessons learnt

April 15, 2014by Chris 14 Comments

Over the last few weeks I have been learning some important lessons, both from my recent university enrollment, and from the greatest teacher of them all…life. University has started and […]

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Accra, Africa, culture

Home, places in the heart

March 10, 2014by Chris 6 Comments

Since moving overseas I have become intrigued with the concept of home. About the ties that bind us to a place, even if that place has not been ‘home’ for […]

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Africa, new home

TGIA – White Man’s Decoration

February 28, 2014by Chris 2 Comments

{TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa, is my weekly look at the weird and wonderful things that happen when you’re living in Africa.  Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re a little dangerous, […]

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TGIA

Think what 2 years can bring – Ghanaversary #2

February 21, 2014by Chris 3 Comments

We’ve never been Valentine’s Day people. I know it’s all very sweet to share the love and all, but it’s always struck me as a Hallmark sort of holiday. As […]

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expat, Ghana

TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa

January 24, 2014by Chris 1 Comment

{TGIA is my weekly look at the weird and wonderful things that happen when you’re living in Africa.  Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re a little dangerous, sometimes they’re a heady combination […]

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Africa, culture, TGIA

Leaving Kumasi: reflections, obervations and a list

January 22, 2014by Chris 10 Comments

A lifetime ago I worked on a northern Australian cattle station. One of those places so huge they dwarf small European countries and their annual cattle muster is done by […]

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Africa, Ghana, Kumasi, leaving

What I did on my Christmas holidays!

January 15, 2014by Chris 2 Comments

Welcome to 2014! Another year done, another Christmas, another birthday passed. I’m a firm believer in not bemoaning another birthday, but being quietly thankful for another year passing. After all, […]

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Christmas, Travel, weather

Endings, Beginnings and Hope for the future

December 19, 2013by Chris 7 Comments

  Had we not chosen to leave Australia and embark on this African experience our eldest daughter would have just finished primary school. She would have joined her oldest and […]

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Children, expat, leaving, school

TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa

November 15, 2013by Chris 7 Comments

This week’s TGIA is brought to you by all the colour, chaos and retail opportunities of Kejetia Market and a puppeteer I met there. Yesterday I was on one of […]

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culture, TGIA

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