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Karen McCann's Blog: August 2008
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Sunday, 31 August 2008. Can anecdotes cross borders? Moving there was the hardest thing she has ever done. The emotional strain of being far from her family was hard enough on its own, but she has had to set herself up financially and emotionally with a partner from a very different culture she hadn’t anticipated how difficult it would be just to fit in. I noticed in the Dubrovnik newspaper an article where two tourists a German man from Freiberg and an English woman from Inverness were. The question...
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Karen McCann's Blog: June 2007
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Sunday, 24 June 2007. It would have been the height of the 1980s, when Mrs Chung consulted an interior designer and commited herself to Country Pastel. She would have looked in magazines, she would have thought about it for years, she took mental notes every time she entered another woman’s home, and when she finally had her house all done up, top to bottom, it was just the way she wanted. When it is finally finished the next woman in here will have to contend with the ghosts of my decisions. But som...
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Karen McCann's Blog: September 2007
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Sunday, 2 September 2007. I should stop here and admit straight up that I have taken the next step on from mere window shopping I am a. I started off looking around properties that I couldn’t quite afford, and moved on to looking at ones in the next price bracket, but soon enough I threw all sense of realistic finance out the window and now I trawl internet property sites late at night restricting my searches to houses one million pounds and above. The trained house tourist observes the correct etiquette...
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Karen McCann's Blog: November 2007
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Sunday, 18 November 2007. Settling down in Britain. The importance of buying, renting and renovating homes in the UK can’t be underestimated. In Australia there were lots of home improvement TV shows and magazines, but the emphasis over here is much more on hardcore property development i.e. not so much the Australian ‘my home is my castle’ philosophy, but more along the line of ‘chuck in your day job and strike it rich through property development’. Recently, on UK ground level (not TV-land), prices of ...
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Karen McCann's Blog: May 2007
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Saturday, 12 May 2007. I have been living in the UK for a year now. It takes a full cycle of seasons before I feel comfortably settled in a new country, and as I am well in to my second spring, the time has come to take stock of my new situation and set down my observations. Manchester gets more rainfall than the Amazon! BBC TV’s weather ‘caster’ (as they are called, as if casting lots) stands in front of a screen at the beginning of their bulletin showing a shot of the skies above some spot in the UK wi...
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Karen McCann - Animator, author and independent producer
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Karen is an animator and independent producer. Click here for my BLOG. She is an Australian living in the UK, and holds an MA in Electronic Arts (Computer Animation) from the Australian National University and a BA in Communications (Media) from the University of Canberra. Since 1999 she has lectured on animation first at the Australian National University, and then at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. She moved to the UK in March 2006. Published in December 2006: Preanimate!
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Karen McCann's Blog: December 2007
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Sunday, 2 December 2007. Bless the BBC box set! It is all down to a one-man revolution for me - Mr Andrew Davies. I have read somewhere online that personally he may be a tad arrogant or other such criticism, but ever since the watershed moment when I saw the 1995 Pride and Prejudice BBC adaptation, yes, the one with Colin Firth in the wet shirt, I have been a fan, even if I didn't know it at first. That was not in the book. Neither was the extended kissing and the cakey candle-lit surroundings, it i...
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Karen McCann's Blog: February 2008
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008. Sorry To Have Missed You. I have been a bit slack with the blogging for a couple of months. I have been busy with Christmas and the new house and my dramatically changing body shape. The blogs have been brewing on all these topics, and this blog may well open the flood gates. So stay tuned. In contrast my home town in Australia has four digits for a postcode used by all 45,000 plus people living there. Hong Kong is even more shocking, they have no postcodes at all. This...My ha...
