What Would You Be Doing If …
The other day, Silke, my wonderful friend from Münster, asked me what I thought I would be doing if I had never travelled and, as a consequence, never moved to work abroad. Now while I know the old...
View ArticleRoots
In October 1855, a man by the name of Johann Leonhard Hambrecht travelled from his home village of Kupferzell – in Germany’s Baden-Württemberg – to Öhringen. It wasn’t a long journey, the distance...
View ArticleThe Thief of Joy
I have a friend (okay, fine, someone I know and haven’t seen for ten years) on Facebook whose Instagrammed life is doing bad things to me. The red lipstick, the smudged eyeliner, the obscure...
View ArticleOn Singing Pigs and Straddling Tuna Fish
I have written a little something for Daily Life on the latest campaign from Animals Australia, against factory farming, and the recent one from Fishlove.co.uk, against over-fishing. One features a...
View ArticleA Little (Timely) Change
Dear Readers, For many months, I have been saying to myself, ‘you really must get everything on the same site – blog, portfolio and projects, all of it.’ And I have nodded at myself promisingly and...
View ArticleCome Over to the New Place
Don’t forget I have moved and now everything is happening over at www.livhambrett.com Same blog, same writer, same themes, hell, even same banner. Just a different address. Come on over, the kettle is...
View ArticleWe Have Moved
Don’t forget to update your little black books with the new address of A Big Life. You can find it by clicking HERE!
View ArticleIf you have been wondering why …
… things have been quiet on this front for the past week, it is because this little guy came along. The new site has A Big Life, my writing portfolio, travel guides, reviews and ongoing project...
View ArticleDear Followers Old & New
To all of those wonderful regular readers who are slowly moving over to the new site, thank you. And to all of the brand new followers who have recently joined me here at A Big Life, thank you to you...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Hello everyone and happy, happy new year. I hope your 2012 was richly coloured and satisfying and sufficiently challenging so as not to make you too comfortable, too complacent as 2013 kicks off. And I...
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