Nomadic Emma

Last week marked three years of my living in Clapham - London, England. After thirty six months I can now walk into the office in the mornin...

Tragedy hits the world in its own way every day, but sometimes it comes too close to home. I don't really follow the All Blacks' pro...

In my little town in Japan, you could always tell when winter was properly on its way. The trees that stood in all the gardens and parks wou...

My Wednesday run this week wasn't much like my Wednesday run last week. Tonight I ran in long trousers, a thermal and a bright coloured ...

In a fit of pre-travel paranoia, I thought I'd check the terms and conditions of my super cheap travel insurance to check that it cover...

Made famous by George Orwell's '1984', Room 101 is the place that contains your worst fear or nightmare. On a slightly lighter ...

It can be a depressing time of year, these autumnal months. Clocks going back, days getting shorter, central heating going on.. So it seems ...

My dad is one of the greatest people in the whole, wide world. He's mathematical and musical all in one, and he'll go and build thin...

I often think that I must surely be one of the luckiest people in the world to be born into such a wonderful collection of people. So I th...

My grandmother, mother and sisters, so much of what I now am comes from each of you. My granny, who, if I squeeze my eyes closed, I can ju...