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Our Experience at the Pokémon Café, Tokyo

28th Feb 2026

There are some travel moments that quietly slot into your memory and stay there forever. And then there are moments that sparkle. Our late-night visit to the Pokémon Café in Tokyo was very much the second kind. If you’ve ever tried to book the Pokémon Café in Tokyo, you’ll know it’s not for the faint-hearted.…
Staying Organised as a Distance Learning Student

7th Jan 2026

This post comes to you as I productively procrastinate whilst halfway through writing my A215 Creative Writing assignment due on the 12th and completely ignoring my A233 English Literature one due on the 22nd. A small brain break, so to speak. It got me thinking though that when I first started my degree journey last…
Our Last Hogmanay: Preparing for a New Year as a Family On the Edge of Adventure

31st Dec 2025

There’s a strange energy in the days between Christmas and New Year, especially when you’ve already taken the decorations down, and everyone else seems to still be living in a glitter-based limbo, where normalcy hasn’t quite resumed. Our tree was down and up in the loft on the 27th, with lights carefully wound around cardboard…
Our Family Values and Philosophy for the Worldschooling Journey

29th Dec 2025

Before Anything Actually Changed There’s a strange assumption that once you say the word worldschooling out loud, something immediately happens. Like a trapdoor opens beneath your feet and suddenly you’re halfway up a mountain in another country, your child is learning three languages by osmosis, and you’re holding a warm drink you definitely didn’t reheat…
The Last Christmas at Home: All the Feelings I Didn’t Expect

27th Dec 2025

I absolutely did not put “unexpected emotional ambush” on my Christmas bingo card this year. I was aiming for pleasant. Vaguely festive. Eat some food, watch some nonsense on Netflix, roll about like weebles after too many cheesy nibbles, doze off with paper crowns still on our heads, and eventually collapse into bed clutching an…